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Director's Statement
MOTHERS is about the nature of truth, rather than about the truth itself. Yet, the way the three stories in MOTHERS come together is closer to the intuitive way in which jazz is played or abstract painting is created than to the rigorous thinking of a narrative film. All three stories in this film are true. They are based on real events, and one of the stories is handled as a documentary. Yet, we don’t know more about what happened in that story. If anything, the truth in the documentary is more elusive. The more we learn about the truth, the less important it is what the factual truth is, and the more important it becomes what the emotional truth of this living person is. We stick to the facts, as they are important, but in the end, the love, the joy, the suffering and the artistic concept are more important than the facts. A writer once said: “The difference between fiction and reality is that fiction has to make sense.” And, even better: “Fiction is the truth inside a lie.” MOTHERS is a film from Macedonia, rather than a film about Macedonia.