Alissa Simon Film CriticAward-winning Slovak documaker Peter Kerekes (“66 Seasons,” “Cooking History,” “Velvet Terrorists”) dips a toe in the fiction world with his rigorously researched Venice Horizons competitor “107 Mothers,” set inside a women’s prison in Ukraine.
Made over five years and 86 shooting days, it reveals a cloistered world populated only by women: inmates, nurses and wardens, wives and widows, daughters, sisters, pregnant and with children.
Without the distinctive colored uniforms indicating their status, it would be difficult to distinguish inmates from staff.• What attracted you to this project?It’s a long story.
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