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Screening „Once My Mother" with Sophia Turkiewicz and Rod Freedman in NY
October 30, 2014
Pilsudski Institute of America, 180 Second Ave. New York City cordially invites you to the screening of multiawarded, documentary film „Once My Mother” with participation of the director Ms. Sophia Turkiewicz and the producer Mr. Rod Freedman.
Monday, November 24, 6:30 PM
In English, 75 min.
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:
www.oncemymother.com
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