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Feb 12, 2023 · Semret: Directed by Caterina Mona. With Lula Mebrahtu, Tedros Teclebrhan, Hermela Tekleab, Fanuel Mengstab. Semret a single mom works at a local Zurich hospital, she does everything to ensure a better life for her daughter Joe.
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Jul 30, 2023 · Swiss filmmaker & Editor Caterina Mona’s feature-film directorial debut, Semret (2022) revolves around a traumatized immigrant single-mother and her teenage daughter. British Eritrean actor, poet, songwriter, and presenter Lula Mebrahtu gives a brilliant understated performance in the titular role. Lula has hosted music festivals and a series ...
Jul 13, 2022 · Semret est une mère célibataire érythréenne qui travaille dans un hôpital à Zurich et souhaite devenir sage-femme. Elle fait tout pour assurer une vie meilleure à sa fille adolescente, Joe ...
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Jul 13, 2022 · German sales company Pluto Film has taken world sales outside Switzerland on Swiss director Caterina Mona’s timely immigration-themed drama “Semret” ahead of its world premiere in the ...
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Aug 22, 2022 · Caterina Mona’s Semret holds nothing new in the cinematic experiences but delivers a heartwarming and delicate story in a promising debut work with impressive newcomers: British-Eritrean Lula Mebrahtu as the titular character and Hermela Tekleab as her daughter, Joe.
Aug 10, 2022 · Semret is her long-awaited feature film debut: a story of migration, integration and a search for roots. It is a film that enters with understated and precise pace into the beating heart of contemporary debate, always viewed with the empathy of a radiantly feminine gaze.
Semret lives a modest and quite isolated life in Zurich with her teenage daughter Joe. She works at a hospital and is applying to a midwife training program. When Joe starts to ask about her own roots from Eritrea, Semret can no longer repress her past and has to confront her traumas.
