As award-winning filmmaker Judith Helfand sorts through a daunting collection of boxes that belonged to her late parents, she looks back on home video chronicles of her family, Jewish rituals and celebrations, and most of all, her mother Florence.
The videos assemble a portrait of a touching mother-daughter bond, from Helfand’s early encounter with cancer and emergency hysterectomy to her mother’s death decades later. “How do you live without your mother?” Helfand asks Florence, not long before becoming a mother herself.
In the present, she embarks on her own journey through motherhood, adopting a child and taking on single parenthood at the age of 50. Meanwhile, she undergoes gastric sleeve surgery and tries to deal with the critical weight loss that her mother had long pushed her to face. Love & Stuff is a generous journey through generations, recoveries. and cathartic triumphs.
-Note adapted from the Hotdocs Festival
Rental includes a moderated conversation with director Judith Helfand which will automatically play after the film.
As award-winning filmmaker Judith Helfand sorts through a daunting collection of boxes that belonged to her late parents, she looks back on home video chronicles of her family, Jewish rituals and celebrations, and most of all, her mother Florence.
The videos assemble a portrait of a touching mother-daughter bond, from Helfand’s early encounter with cancer and emergency hysterectomy to her mother’s death decades later. “How do you live without your mother?” Helfand asks Florence, not long before becoming a mother herself.
In the present, she embarks on her own journey through motherhood, adopting a child and taking on single parenthood at the age of 50. Meanwhile, she undergoes gastric sleeve surgery and tries to deal with the critical weight loss that her mother had long pushed her to face. Love & Stuff is a generous journey through generations, recoveries. and cathartic triumphs.
-Note adapted from the Hotdocs Festival
Rental includes a moderated conversation with director Judith Helfand which will automatically play after the film.