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MAMA

MAMA

Nikolay Renard / Yelena Renard 2010 71 min Russia

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MAMA-Nikolay Renard / Yelena Renard

An old mother and her overweighed son are living in a humble little flat. Their only source of living is their sick benefits. Mother put her whole life for raising her only son, alone without a man. But she couldn’t resist him on time, and, made him almost helpless. She doesn’t give him any chance to grow up. But mother doesn’t realize that she had ruined his life, by keeping him always by her side. She is mad at him because he can’t help himself in every days life needs.
Son is suffering. He wants to live, he has dreams and desires. But his mother says that he is pathetic and that she spoiled her life because of him. Guilty feelings are coming all over him, and he decides to go to his father, a person he never saw before. His mother packing his things, she is mad at him, but can’t change his mind. The decision to leave her, is the first decision in his life.
When everything set, and son is asleep, mother realizes, that from next day she is free from her son, but that also means total loneliness and emptiness for her. She decides not to wake him up and from the next day, start to treat him differently.
In the morning, she finds out, that the airplane, he was suppose to fly on, had crushed. She is shocked, but happy. She thinks that she had “saved” her son as always.
But the destiny had freed him from her…

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Nikolay Renard / Yelena Renard

Mama is the debut for Yelena and Nikolay as film directors and script writers. Nikolay Renard fell into cinema through visual arts and oil painting. Yelena – through script writing. He studied at the Postgraduate School of Scriptwriters and Film Directors in Moscow. She is a self educated film maker. This film is their first experience of united directing.