Mother Just a Smile

The elderly Isabel Cardoso works in the kitchen of a nursery school. Her hands are worn, her memory sharp and heavy with grief. In moments of stillness she reaches across the divide, communicating with her deceased mother through the stirring winds, the rippling surface of water, the cracked earth. A richly intimate documentary mosaic of the strength, struggle and transcendence of black womanhood.

• Cyrielle RaingouDirector

Release date

January 25, 2023

Status

Released

Original language

Portuguese

Runtime

18m