«Embrace darkness»
Silence is a tactic often employed within families. As was the case with Michaela, who was an adult when she instigated
a radical break with the village where she grew up. Only the death of her father brings her and her eight-year-old daughter
back to the old house from buried times. Achmed Abdel-Salam's exciting directorial debut SMOTHER explores dilapidated rooms
and overgrowth gone rampant, prompting memories to flare up which unravel a painful secret.