Food for love
Realizador Marianna Economou
Países Greece
Duração 52 min
Sinopse
Three Greek mothers cook and send food packages to their children who study away from home. A man in a small van delivers the mothers’ food to students across Greece. Food in the hands of Greek mothers, is a powerful practical and symbolic tool that bridges any geographic and emotional distance and ensures that family bonds are kept tight forever! With humour and social insight, the documentary opens a window into the particularity of the Greek family with the powerful mother figure at the centre and the children as kings and queens! It explores the interdependent mother - child relationship, the complex emotional and psychological dimensions that evolve and the traditional nature of the Greek family at a time when Greek society is struggling to align itself to the needs and realities of the western world.
Three Greek mothers cook and send food packages to their children who study away from home. A man in a small van delivers the mothers’ food to students across Greece. Food in the hands of Greek mothers, is a powerful practical and symbolic tool that bridges any geographic and emotional distance and ensures that family bonds are kept tight forever! With humour and social insight, the documentary opens a window into the particularity of the Greek family with the powerful mother figure at the centre and the children as kings and queens! It explores the interdependent mother - child relationship, the complex emotional and psychological dimensions that evolve and the traditional nature of the Greek family at a time when Greek society is struggling to align itself to the needs and realities of the western world.