107 Mothers
[Plays May 8 at 2:15 p.m. and 5/16 at 2 p.m. as well as virtually as part of the MSPIFF41 Film Festival; for more information, log on to MSPfilm.org for full schedule.] Péter Kerekes' award-winning, factually inspired, somber, heartbreaking, bittersweet, 93-minute film that chronicles the struggles of incarcerated mothers, including a woman (Maryna Klimova) who is sentenced to seven years for murdering her husband out of jealousy and a desperate inmate (Iryna Kiryazeva) looking for someone to care for her 3-year-old son (Vyacheslav Vygovskyl) when her mother (Raisa Roman) refuses and her mother-in-law (Oleksandr Mykhailov) wants too high a price, who give birth and raise their babies in a rundown women's prison in Odessa, Ukraine, while mostly caring guards (Iryna Kiryazeva, Tetyana Klishch, et al.) oversee the prisoners and their children.
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