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In My Mother's House

In My Mother's House

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Status

Released

Release Date

Jul 28, 2017

Runtime

1h 22m

Genres

Documentary

Original Title

In My Mother's House

Director

Lina Fruzzetti

Description

One day in 2005, Lina Fruzzetti receives a startling email that reads, "If this is your father, we are cousins." There follows a decade-long quest to learn more about her Italian father who died young in Italian ruled Eritrea and her Eritrean mother who does not dwell on the past. Above all, Fruzzetti strives to understand her far-flung African, European, and American family against the backdrop of colonial rule, worlds at war, migration, grief, diasporas, and the global world in which we all live.