MOTHER, MY CHILD
A film directed by Vjosana Shkurti
Narrative short | 2026 | Canada, QC | 14min | English, Romanian | English and French subtitles | 1.66 | Color | Stereo, 5.1
On a night of reckoning, an immigrant teen confronts her mother’s fury—and finds a mirror of her own fragility
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
FESTIVALS
- - 2026 -
Fantasia International Film Festival
Vjosana Shkurti
Vjosana Shkurti is a Canadian-Albanian filmmaker, an immigrant in Greece during her childhood and adolescence, 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, UK, Finland, Spain, Greece among others. Her first short film “Ofranda” received the Writers Guild of Canada prize for the best film script at Cours Ecrire Ton Court and was written about in Revue Séquences.
FILMOGRAPHIE
"2025 Mother, My Child (14:30) - Fiction short film, Art councils, Montreal
2024 Becoming Olive (5:00) – Experimental Film, Koumaria Art Residency, Greece
2023 Ofrandă (15:00) - Fiction film, Peripheria Films, Travelling Distribution, Montreal
2022 Thorn on her side (5:15) - Experimental/Horror, Independent, Montreal
2019 Hello Earth (5:30) - Video performance, Independent, Montreal
2019 Nodes (10:40) [+ Agustina Isidori] - Experimental Doc, Milieux Institute, Montreal
2017 Leagan / Peppermint Ashes (10:40) - Fiction Film, Concordia University, Montreal
2015 Utland (5:00) - Fiction short film, Concordia University, Montreal
2011 The Game (17:00) - Video performance, Independent, Toronto
2011 The Fall (2:00) - Video performance, University of Toronto"
CONTACT DISTRIBUTION
