Soc filla de ma mare

For the first ten years of my life I called the camera ＇dad＇. My father wasn＇t home for work and my mother recorded me so he wouldn＇t miss watching me grow. It＇s been over a decade since I last saw my father and I thought I didn＇t care about him anymore. One day, Sara, my mother, threw away all the photographs where he appeared. That＇s when I realized that it wasn＇t like that. "Who has pictures of someone who has been gone for 15 years as if this were family?" she told me.＇I am my mother＇s daughter＇ is an intimate documentary that looks into the absence to value the presence. With her and my grandmother, I review home videos, torn-up photographs, and also the diary my mother wrote during her stay in a psychiatric center to reflect on my own identity through the reconstruction of memories; to try to clarify family gaps and reconcile with the past and the present.