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Available Friday, January 29 – Thursday, February 11

Japan’s Official Submission to the Academy Awards 

After a long and unsuccessful struggle to get pregnant, Satoko and her husband decide to adopt a child. Over the next six years, the middle-class couple and their young son Asato settle into a comfortable, albeit routine, life. The family’s orderly existence is shattered by the arrival of Hikari, a young woman claiming to be Asato’s biological mother, demanding his return. As tensions mount, Satoko grows more and more emboldened to defend her family. Weaving together multiple timelines and genres with a contemplative pacing and keen sense of place, hallmarks of Kawase’s work, TRUE MOTHERS is as described by Awards Watch as “a deeply touching celebration of women who assume duties of love, support and compassion”.

In Japanese with English subtitles.