i look like my mother

Directed by: Amina Maher, ca. 90 min., 2020- ongoing

As co-editor.

I Look Like My Mother is an autoethnographic documentary with classical as well as semi-fictional and experimental approaches. The protagonist and filmmaker Amina Maher relentlessly and honestly deals with her story, a story of growing up in repressive Iran, sexual and psychological abuse, oppressive patriarchal structures and rape culture.