Moldavian Ilinka has been living in Switzerland with her aunt and mother for a year. She is fourteen and has just given birth to a baby boy, Mak. Her mother has heard about a baby counter and they travel there together. Heartbreaking, consummately acted fiction about motherhood.
Featured in these combined programmes
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Short Stories: Oh Stranger
Four slightly melancholy wanderings and meetings somewhere between the past and the present, in Portugal, Macau and Switzerland.
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Short Film Marathon 2011 – Part One
High points from the Spectrum Shorts programme of the last ten days brought together one more time in a 14-hour film marathon in two parts. Non-sto
Film details
- Country of production
- Switzerland
- Year
- 2010
- Festival edition
- IFFR 2011
- Length
- 18"
- Medium/Format
- HDcam
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