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Panorama Short Film 2022
Filmstill Mother’s Milk
Mother’s Milk
Isaac Knights-Washbourn
A rural life in western Serbia that demands the utmost from Dragica. Cows need to be milked, tomatoes harvested. The daily tasks leave almost no time to pause
Filmstill Mother’s Milk

Mother’s Milk

Majčino mleko
Isaac Knights-Washbourn
Panorama Short Film 2022
Documentary Film
Serbia
2022
18 minutes
Serbian
Subtitles: 
English

Dragica does not lack for work. The house and cattle in western Serbia demand toil from dawn to dusk. She milks, harvests, prepares porridge for her handicapped daughter. Her own mother recently passed away. Now Dragica wears black and shaves her old father. Can there be an alternative to this daily self-sacrifice? Almost casually, Isaac Knights-Washbourn leaves space for such reflections: While chopping tomatoes, the woman opens up to a guest from town.

Carolin Weidner

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Director
Isaac Knights-Washbourn
Cinematographer
Antonio Pozojević
Editor
Ivana Pejak
Producer
Dejan Petrović, Nađa Lapčević
Sound
Eugene Pereiaslavtsev