Metrograph

Akerman’s final film is comprised almost entirely of conversations with her mother, 86-year-old Holocaust survivor Natalia “Nelly” Akerman, who the filmmaker captures in intimate Skype conversations and domestic vignettes shot with a deceptively rough precision during visits home to Brussels, Nelly’s vitality slowly waning as the film carries on—she died soon after shooting. After Akerman’s own tragic suicide, this extraordinarily tender work takes on the character of a heart-rending goodbye, to both her mother and to her cinema, to which her “Maman” was so central.

Distributor: Icarus Films