STRAW 2025: A Mother’s Silence Was Louder Than a Siren
A haunting look at grief, survival, and a mother’s quiet collapse in a world that never gave her room to fall.

The 20th century is the first century of moving pictures and in the archive of the Swedish public service, a massive amount of footage is collected. In this second entry in Jan Bergman's Pentalogy, we experience a tumultuous period in Stockholm's history; the introduction of sound to the footage and the functionalistic movement are only two of the many changes during the decade.
A haunting look at grief, survival, and a mother’s quiet collapse in a world that never gave her room to fall.
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