A film by Vjosana Shkurti
Mother, My Child
Fiction · 2026 · Canada (Quebec) · 14 min
Synopsis
On a night of reckoning, an immigrant teen confronts her mother’s fury — and finds a mirror of her own fragility.
Technical details
- Category
- Fiction
- Year
- 2026
- Country
- Canada (Quebec)
- Running time
- 14 min
- Languages
- English, Romanian
- Subtitles
- English and French
- Aspect ratio
- 1.66
- Picture
- Colour
- Sound
- Stereo, 5.1
Cast
Kalyna Nichita, Anana Rydvald
Crew
- Direction
- Vjosana Shkurti
- Screenplay
- Vjosana Shkurti
- Production
- Vjosana Shkurti, Max Holzberg
- Director of photography
- Alexia Toman
- Art direction
- Alex Guevremont
- Editing
- Elian Mikkola
- Sound design
- Sacha Ratcliffe
- Sound mixing
- Bruno Bélanger
- Music
- Sacha Ratcliffe
Stills
Festivals and awards
- 2026
- Fantasia International Film Festival
Filmmaker
Vjosana Shkurti
Vjosana Shkurti is a Canadian-Albanian filmmaker who grew up as an immigrant in Greece and is now based in Montreal, Canada. Her cinema explores questions of origin, language, elusive desires and intimate power dynamics. Her works blend reality with abstraction and have travelled to festivals in Canada, France, the UK, Finland, Spain and Greece, among others. Her first short film, “Ofrandă”, received the Writers Guild of Canada prize for best film script at Cours Écrire ton court and was written about in Séquences.
Filmography
- 2025Mother, My ChildShort film
- 2024Becoming Olive
- 2023Ofrandă
- 2022Thorn on her side
- 2019Hello Earth
- 2019Nodes [+ Agustina Isidori]
- 2017Leagan
- 2015UtlandShort film
- 2011The Game
- 2011The Fall