BEDOUIN

“Worrying about you is my life.” Rita is prepared to make any sacrifice if it will help her daughter conquer leukaemia. Serving as a surrogate mother far from home, she relies on a webcam and mobile phone to maintain virtual contact with a child who bears her illness with courage and dignity. As Rita watches her daughter’s condition deteriorate, she is drawn ever deeper into the whirlpool of a crime she opposes with considerable tenacity. But the physical distance between mother and daughter is causing the woman to increasingly question the point of her actions. In Igor Voloshin’s cross-genre film the bedouin metaphor reflects not only the protagonists’ nomadic lives but equally a spiritual odyssey that re-assesses concepts of home and belonging. Life and death, mortality and eternity – the contrasts meet (and sometimes clash) on multiple planes, while tense, raw images of urban life and deprivation bring to light the ambivalent nature of the figures and their conflicts.