To The Other Shore

“A poetic diary film about motherhood and psychoanalysis”

A deeply personal study of motherhood as a ‘rite of passage’. It interweaves moments from the filmmaker’s childhood, family life and psychotherapy with world events, including the Holocaust, the Vietnam War and the Chernobyl nuclear accident, to evoke the complex inner world of maternal experience. Grethel’s tale from the fairy story Hansel and Grethel juxtaposes the personal story with a mythical exploration of freedom and individual responsibility.

Director

Jeni Thornley

Screenplay

Jeni Thornley

Status

Released

Release date

01/08/1996

Original language

English