Amit Kumar Agarwal
One of the films that was widely talked about at 44th edition of IFFI was the debut feature film of German Film-maker, Anne Zohra Berrached.
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| Film-maker Anne Zohra Berrached |
The film "Zwei Mütter", which in English means 'Two Mothers' is a very complex film as it fuses fiction with non-fiction, which according to Anne was the real challenge for her as a film-maker; "because if I went wrong with the narrative, audiences simply won't feel for the characters, I had so diligently nurtured while writing the script", gushed a visibly charged Anne, after the tremendous response the film has drawn worldwide.
She feels this appreciation worldwide was the reason, she won the coveted DIALOGUE en Perspective, at the 2013 edition of Berlin Film Festival.
Born in Erfurt, Germany, Anne worked in theatre in London, before pursuing a film-making course at the Film Academy in Baden Wurttemberg in 2009.
About her connect with India, Anne says that though she has been in India twice, she visited it only as a tourist. "It is for the first time I am here as a film-maker with my film", smiles Anne.
She says she watched a Hindi Film on her last visit to India, just to get the feel of it and though she didn't understand a thing, she was very excited just by the way audiences connected with the movie. "I feel Indian audiences are very animated, they cheer, they clap, they dance, they cry; what more can a film-maker ask for. This is the kind of association and energy, the love, each film-maker wants from the audiences" Anne says concealing her excitement.
Anne hopes to make a crossover film that has huge 'Bollywood' elements in it and hopes to return to India with that film.
Synopsis - Zwei Mütter (Two Mothers)
Katja (43) and Isabella (37) decide to beget a child.
The married couple agrees on not wanting a third person to have a say The sperm, not a
father.
Like many lesbian couples in Germany they have to find out that the road to a common child
is much harder than expected: Most of the sperm banks and fertility clinics do not offer
treatment for homosexual couples because of legal purposes.
After finally finding a doctor who is willing to offer very expensive insemination for lesbian
women, the fertilization does not work for months. Katja wants to quit the treatment while Isa
suffers more and more because of the failures and the bad financial situation they are getting
in. However Isa can not give up and finds a trader who sells utilities with which one can
inseminate oneself at home. Thousands of men are offering their sperm for money on his
website. A casting for potential donators begins which endures over several grueling weeks. In
this time Katja discovers that Isa is willing to betray their pact as well as their relationship in
order to fulfill her wish of becoming pregnant.
As they finally meet GO FOR GOLD (31), who already fathered 20 children in three years
and who demands regular contact with the emerging child, Isa makes her way and ignores
Katja. Go for Gold ejaculates in a cup and Katja injects Isa the longed-for white gold.
