Summer Series, Week 3: Motherland

A return to documentaries for our next Movie Monday at the Lyric with Motherland.

Show starts at 7:00pm, $5.00 at the door. Bring your own snacks! The bar is open!

See this powerful film which debuted in March at the South by Southwest Film Festival.

Six diverse and remarkable women, each grieving the loss of a child, travel to rural South Africa to work as volunteers in an effort to find some positive meaning in the wake of their tragedies. The group, strangers to each other before the trip began but bound by the painful experience they share, contribute to and learn from a culture that deals with mourning in a way very different from what they're accustomed to in America. For 17 days on the other side of the world, these women cry and laugh, grieve and celebrate, and talk more openly than ever before about the kids they adored. And for the first time since their children's deaths, together in the Motherland, each woman finds hope and healing in the company of others who truly understand her experience. Directed by Jennifer Steinman.