Mater Insula

a film by Fatima Bianchi

( co-written by Séverine Mathieu)

France, Italy / 2025 / 73 mins

broadcast by

France 3 PACA

In a recording studio, five mothers read the testimonies of other anonymous mothers and confide in each other, exposing their regrets about motherhood.
On a fantasized island, these five mothers are locked up in an open-air prison. They are monitored and forced to perform hard labor.

written with Séverine Mathieu

produced by Clothilde Bunod

in co-production with

Careof (Italie)

with the support

of the Sud Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur region, SCAM - Brouillon d'un rêve, Italian Concil, Fonds de soutien audiovisuel du CNC, Procirep and Angoa.
Awarded ArteVisione grant in 2020.

Pitch DOC AT WORK - Festival Dei Popoli (2024).

director : bio and filmography

Fatima Bianchi is an editor and director of films at the frontiers of creative documentary and video art. She seeks to create new narratives based on different forms of temporality. She uses reality as a starting point to generate a form of documentary that escapes the trap of representation, to create new languages from existing systems. Her research is inspired by the events of everyday life, starting from the experience of the individual as a unique phenomenon who grows up in a community and makes it grow in turn. Alongside her work as a director, she also works as an editor on numerous projects.

/ filmography

L’OUVERT, (short film), 2020
DE L’AUTRE CÔTÉ DES MONTAGNES, (short film), 2017
NOTTURNO, (short film), 2016
CITYSIGHT, (short film), 2014
TYNDALL, (short film), 2014
MONTE VENERE, (short film), 2013

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