My Dear Mother

She was nine years old when she discovered that she was not an orphan

My Dear Mother — Plot

My Dear Mother is about the 15-year-old girl Dasha who lives in an orphanage in a small town in Russia. We follow her for five years, in all the thoughts she has about growing up in orphanages. She wonders why her mother left her. Until her grandmother died, she lived with her grandparents, who were Russian Sami. Dasha's father is in jail and her mother was a drug addict. Dasha would like to have contact with her roots and she wants to keep her Sami identity.

• Release date
• December 1, 2019
• Runtime
• 83 min
• Genres
• Documentary
• Director
• Paul-Anders Simma

My Dear Mother — Cast

D

Dasha Matrekhina Herself

A

Alyonna Sovkina Herself

I

Irina Matveeva Herself

N

Natescha Panova Herself

L

Larissa Yulina Herself

I

Igor Posatckii Himself

A

Aleksander Agafonov Himself Natalya Agafonova Herself