Mother Europe

Synopsis

Mama Europa is a humorous, creative documentary about the borders of Europe and those whose lives are closely associated with them. It is a thematic sequel to the creative documentary The Grandmothers of Revolution. Through the personal view of the director Petra Seliškar and her four-year-old daughter Terra, the film takes us on a journey around Europe, to visit some of its remaining non-Schengen borders. We uncover the realities of life along these borders, the problems they pose for the locals and the things that they do to cope with these problems.

Director Biography

Petra Seliškar was born in 1978 in Ljubljana, Her first childhood passion was the theatre which brought her to join the puppet theatre and school GILS KODUM. After finishing high school, she went to the Netherlands to study directing at the Academy of film and television. She later pursued undergraduate studies in directing and postgraduate studies of production at the Northern media school in Sheffield in England. In 2003 she founded the Petra Pan Film Production, which primarily produces and distributes documentary films. She now lives and works in Ljubljana, Skopje and elsewhere around Europe.