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Mother Land
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Mother Land

Feb 2, 2022
1h 19m
★ 6.0

A Year on the Sacred Mountain

Overview

When filmmaker Mari Soppela took her children and husband to live for a year on a sacred mountain in her native Finland, she was fulfilling a lifelong dream to share the arctic wilderness of her childhood with her family. But when years later her children turn the camera onto her, she is forced to confront her motivation for filming their lives in this searching and searingly honest cinematic exploration of identity, belonging and motherhood. Filmed over the course of 27 years, Mother Land challenges us all to examine the landscapes we carry within us and the narratives we create to make sense of our lives.

Genres

Documentary

Production Companies

LPMA Productions
Cinatura

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Mother Land Trailers

Cast

Mari Soppela

Self / Narrator (voice)

Mari Soppela

Ilari Anemaet

Self

Ilari Anemaet

Sanna Anemaet

Self

Sanna Anemaet