107 MOTHERS
SYNOPSIS
In a Ukrainian women's prison, mothers are permitted to serve their sentences with their children until their third birthday.
BIOGRAPHY
Peter Kerekes was born in Košice, Slovakia, and graduated from the Film and Television Faculty of the Academy of Performing Arts in Bratislava, earning a degree in film directing. In 2003, he directed and produced his debut feature documentary, 66 Seasons, which became a festival hit and won several awards, including the Best Film Award at DocAviv. His next feature documentary, Cooking History (2009), received the Prix Arte nomination for Best Documentary at the European Film Awards, among other plaudits. Kerekes's 2013 feature documentary, Velvet Terrorists, co-directed by Pavol Pekarčík and Ivan Ostrochovský, won the Fedeora Award at the Karlovy Vary IFF and celebrated its international premiere at the Berlinale Forum, winning the Tagesspiegel Readers’ Award. With his most recent feature film 107 Mothers, Kerekes won, among others, the Venice Horizons Award for Best Screenplay and in Chicago the Silver Hugo for Best Director.
