Winner of the 2000 Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film and Pedro Almodóvar’s most beloved picture, All About My Mother explores the love, loss, compassion that comes with motherhood. After unexpectedly losing her teenage son, Nurse Manuela (Cecilia Roth) sets out to search for the boy’s long-lost father in Barcelona. While grieving in a new city she finds herself playing a maternal role to an actress suffering from drug addiction (Candela Peña), a transgender sex worker (Antonia San Juan), pregnant nun living with HIV (Penélope Cruz), and an illustrious star of the stage (Marisa Paredes).
-Written by Mary Getaneh
In the spirit of respect, reciprocity and truth, we honour and acknowledge that this screening takes place on Moh’kinsstis and the traditional Treaty 7 territory, as well as the oral practices of the Blackfoot confederacy: Siksika, Kainai, Piikani as well as the Îyâxe Nakoda and Tsuut’ina nations. We acknowledge that this territory is home to the Métis Nation of Alberta, Region 3 within the historical Northwest Métis homeland. Finally, we acknowledge all Nations, Indigenous and non, who live, work and play, as well as help steward this land, honour and celebrate this territory.