dajori (2024)

Directed by Martin Páv & Nicolas Kourek 

Production: Jan Bodnár, Jarmila Poláková/Film & Sociologie, s.r.o. (Czech Republic)

Feature Documentary (87 mins)

When the mother of Samuel (9) and Anabel (2) becomes homeless and unable to care for them, they end up moving in with their aunt Marie, a strong Roma woman living in the poor Czech border town of Varnsdorf. Over the course of three years,  Dajori (mother in Romani) follows the coming of age of Samuel and Anabel, as Marie tries to provide the traumatized children with motherly love, while at the same time raising them according to her ideals.