Calling Mother

Info

Original title
Soita äidille

DURATION
17′

Script
Marianne Mäkelä, Heli Pekkonen

Director
Marianne Mäkelä, Heli Pekkonen

Cinematography
Heli Pekkonen

Editing
Leo Suonikko

Sound recording
Marianne Mäkelä, Charlotta Strömberg

Sound design
Olli Huhtanen

Music
Kaapo Huttunen

Producer
Marianne Mäkelä, Hannu-Pekka Vitikainen / Zone 2 Pictures

Production year
2018

Festivals and awards

Espoo Ciné 2019, Finland
Blue Sea Film Festival 2019, Finland – Baltic Herring short film competition

Calling Mother is a documentary about those moments when you just have to call your mum. It is a compilation of phone calls made by different people to their mothers.

Film follows the lifespan of a human being from youth to the adulthood, where a child changes from dependant to a caretaker. Phone calls are connected by images of an old telephone center and electric wires and by a story of a young mother who doesn’t have a mother to call to. Calling Mother is a film about a relationship that is intimate, painful and often a bit ridiculous.