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Movie poster: Mother (2025)
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2025 · 103 min History Drama
5.4 / 10 · TMDB

Maria, a teacher in a provincial town, receives a letter from her son after ten years of silence. He writes he is coming home, but not alone — with a new family his mother knows nothing about. Against the backdrop of slowly changing Russia in the 2000s, a drama unfolds about waiting, silence, and the love expressed through a carefully set table and an ironed shirt. The 2025 historical drama examines the generational divide through the lens of a quiet domestic hell, where the main battles are fought in the kitchen and the most important words remain unspoken.

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📋 Film Details

Year 2025
Country Belgium, Denmark, Macedonia
Genre History, Drama
Director Teona Strugar Mitevska
Runtime 103 min.
Rating TMDB: 5.4/10 (9 votes)

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The director frames each shot as a quiet confession, where what remains off-screen holds the most weight — the pause before opening a door, an unfinished cup of tea, a gaze through a window. The camera barely moves, observing domestic rituals with a still, almost anthropological precision, while the sound design amplifies everyday noises until they feel ominous.

Anyone ready for a film that lives in the spaces between dialogue, where tension simmers beneath the surface of ordinary routines, will find a profound emotional anchor here. The emotional weight settles not in dramatic reveals, but in the accumulation of silent gestures and postponed conversations. — MovieFinder Editorial

Director: Teona Strugar Mitevska

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