Screening of multi awarded, documentary film “Once My Mother” in Brooklyn, NY

Writer & Director: Sophia Turkiewicz
Producer: Rod Freedman
In English/partial Polish w. English subtitles.
Open to the public.

When Australian filmmaker Sophia Turkiewicz was seven years old, her Polish mother, Helen, abandoned her in an Adelaide orphanage. Sophia never forgot this maternal act of betrayal. Now in middle age, as Sophia examines her troubled relationship with Helen, she discovers the story behind Helen’s miraculous wartime escape from a Siberian gulag, her subsequent survival against the odds and the truth about an historic betrayal involving Stalin and the Allies. With Helen sliding into dementia, Sophia must confront her own demons. Did she ever truly know this woman who became her mother? Does she have it in her heart to forgive her? And is it too late?

Trailer is available under the links: http://vimeo.com/75190074 or facebook.com/oncemymother

The film can be purchased on DVD or streamed from: www.oncemymother.com

Pilsudski Institute thanks to Producer Rod Freedman and Director Sophia Turkiewicz for permission to screen the film.

This program is supported, in part, by public funds from the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs in partnership with The City Council.