Mother: Shadow of Injustice premieres at the Netherlands Film Festival and is nominated for the Gouden Kalf

Mother: Shadow of Injustice premiered at the Netherlands Film Festival 2025, on the evening of the short film programme. The film is nominated for the Gouden Kalf for Best Short Film.

Directed by Ibrahim Karatay, the film tells the story of Rozhin (65), a Kurdish mother with a premonition of her own death. In a besieged city in Turkish Kurdistan, she embarks on a final journey to visit her daughter and grandchildren, followed by a stray dog in this magical-realist film.

Mother: Shadow of Injustice is a DotInk Cinema production, in co-production with Alchemic Film (NL) and Harald House (BE), supported by the Netherlands Film Fund, the Flanders Audiovisual Fund (VAF) and the Municipality of The Hague.