MOTHERS

I guess we all have experienced motherly love that at some point becomes suffocating. By taking this theme and making a film out of it I was interested in a mother’s perspective. How does a mother feel, when her only child is about to become a mother herself? All the anxiety and the wish to control enables Aldona to hide from the vulnerability and solitude that is lying deep inside her. By choosing to take care of others sometimes we just hide our fear to meet ourselves. I experience the same subtle controlling patterns in my own relationships. The film is a perfect place to explore it, let others recognize themselves and – like the main character – find the strength to let it go and become free through accepting your solitude. 

Birute Kapustinskaite is a playwright and screenwriter for cinema, theatre and audio projects. In 2018, she received Lithuania’s national Golden Cross Award for best playwright. Birute also won the Best Screenplay award at the 2019 Aubagne Film Festival for the screenplay of the feature film “Sasha Was Here”. She teaches screenwriting at the Lithuanian Academy of Music and Theatre, and at Vilnius University. The short film “Mothers” is her debut as a director.