“MOTHER OF MINE”
Coachella
Valley Premiere
Saturday
- July 21,
2007
Doors Open for
Complimentary Refreshments at 9:00 AM
Film
Begins Promptly
at 9:30 AM
Camelot
Theatres
2300
Baristo Road,
Palm
Springs, CA
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During
World War II, more than 70,000 Finnish children were evacuated to
neutral Sweden
to avoid the conflict. "Mother of
Mine," the latest from the award-winning Klaus Haro ("Elina"),
tackles that painful patch of history in a tale of 9-year-old Eero, a
child who
increasingly feels abandoned by his biological Finnish mother and yet
not
attached to his Swedish surrogate mom.
Festivals & Awards:
Winner, Best
Actress, Jussi Awards (Finnish Oscars®); Best Cinematography, Jussi
Awards
(Finnish Oscars®); Best Set Design, Jussi Awards (Finnish
Oscars®); Golden
Pyramid (Best Actress), Cairo Int'l Film Festival; Golden Pyramid (Best
Director), Cairo Int'l Film Festival; Audience Award, Palm Springs
Int'l Film
Festival; Audience Prize ; Baltic Film Prize for a Nordic Film; Best
Foreign
Language Film Satellite Awards; Jimmy Stewart Memorial Crystal Heart
Award,
Heartland Film Festival; Jury Award (Best Actress), Sao Paulo Int'l
Film
Festival; Jury Grand Prix in Free Fly Series, Griffoni Film Festival;
Submitted
by Country, Academy Award (Best Foreign Film), Academy
Awards®
Official
Selection, Toronto Int'l Film Festival; Seattle Int'l Film Festival;
Milwaukee
Int'l Film Festival; Rio de Janeiro Int'l Film Festival; Copenhagen
Int'l Film
Festival
Review:
"Finnish
helmer Klaus Haro comes up with an emotionally involving tale that
could also
resonate beyond the region in specialty situations. Pic is Finland's
official submission for
the 2007 Oscars' foreign film category."
-- Gunnar Rehlin, Variety
Director:
Klaus Härö
Distributor:
Film Movement
Runtime: 111
minutes
Genre: Drama
Country: Finland and Sweden
Language:
Finnish and Swedish w/English subtitles
Finland's Academy Award® Submission for Best
Foreign Language Film
