Liebe Mama, ich kannte dich kaum...

Alice Agneskirchner recalls that when she was a child her mother would try to get her to wear Dirndl dresses when all she wanted to do was climb trees. She remembers her mother as being an old fashioned kind of woman. Thirty years ago, when Alice had just turned 11 years old, her mother died of a brain tumour. Now, older than her mother ever became, Alice Agneskirchner embarks on a filmic search for the mother she barely knew. The filmmaker’s journey takes her to meet her mother’s former school friends; she goes to the Tegernsee, where her mother grew up in the 50s and to Munich, where she herself grew up in the 70s; she questions her father about the woman who got him to leave Canada for Germany. Before, all Alice had had was a child’s perspective on her mother, but through her search she gets to know her as a woman in her own right. As she compares her mother’s life to her own, she gains a new understanding of the values and beliefs that her mother held and a new perspective on her own life and upbringing. (DOK.fest München)