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EPISODE · Feb 21, 2025 · 3 MIN

“Mother’s baby”, interview with director Johanna Moder

from FRED Film Radio - English Channel

Austrian screenwriter and director Johanna Moder presents her 3rd feature film, "Mother’s Baby", in competition at the 75th Berlinale.  The film, described as very personal from the director herself, is a story about the hidden side of motherhood. Moder follows the story of this woman, Julia, a successful conductor finally having the baby she has always dreamed of and feeling distanced from her son and the whole new life she is somehow forced to embrace. “My film is about the challenge of dealing with the expectations of motherhood and finding yourself” explains Moder who declared that she chose to tell "Mother’s baby" as a psychological thriller since the the film plays with visual darkness and juxtapositions of beauty and pain. In the role of Julia, the enigmatic German-Swiss actress Marie Leuenberger while in the villain role of awkwardly calm Dr Villefort, danish actor Claes Bang.

Austrian screenwriter and director Johanna Moder presents her 3rd feature film, "Mother’s Baby", in competition at the 75th Berlinale.  The film, described as very personal from the director herself, is a story about the hidden side of motherhood. Moder follows the story of this woman, Julia, a successful conductor finally having the baby she has always dreamed of and feeling distanced from her son and the whole new life she is somehow forced to embrace. “My film is about the challenge of dealing with the expectations of motherhood and finding yourself” explains Moder who declared that she chose to tell "Mother’s baby" as a psychological thriller since the the film plays with visual darkness and juxtapositions of beauty and pain. In the role of Julia, the enigmatic German-Swiss actress Marie Leuenberger while in the villain role of awkwardly calm Dr Villefort, danish actor Claes Bang.

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