Around the film
'Our Child' outlines an ambitious path: it shows the fate of a woman, that of the director herself, who feels the compelling need to have a child. Thus, she seeks out asperm donor, whom she meets in an anonymous hotel room. This story is there after rooted in the daily coexistence of the the girl and her mother, which she documents with a video camera. But Marina Belobrovaja’s ambition is to reflect on her choices and their consequences in relation to wide spread social values. How is she perceived by her environment and how does she deal with the fact that her child is growing up without a father?
The film consists of encounters with people and couples with whom the director enters into dialogue as intelligently as emotionally, resolutely as sensitively. In this way, a space gradually emerges in which life unfolds beyond the normative structure of society. The scenes alternate between the everyday life of the mother and daughter and human relationships that continuously develop through the interactions of adults. The more the story of 'Our Child' develops, the more complex it becomes. And when the mother decides against a traditional family structure with a father figure, it is her family that paradoxically takes a central role. Marina Belobrovaya’s family is omnipresent, loving, patient, close, though far away, living in Israel: its group portraits are as funny as a sitcom.