| Title: | Dreaming Rivers | |
| Director 1: | Martina Attille | |
| Country: | UK | |
| Year: | 1988 | |
| length: | 31 mins | |
| Colour/b-w: | colour | |
| Genre: | feature film, experimental | |
| Screenwriter: | Martina Attille | |
| Cinematographer: | Nina Kellgren | |
| Editor: | Esther Ronay | |
| Producer: | ||
| Production company: | Sankofa Film | |
| Cast: | Corinne Skinner Carter, Stefan Kalipha, Angela Wynter | |
| Location: | TABB | |
| TABB No.: | 35 | |
| Synopsis: | The film deals with a woman from the Caribbean who has retreated into mental illness to escape the cold reality of life in England. She is torn between the old world of her origins and her life in England. Her children struggle to understand their mother's cultural and emotional homelessness and, at the same time, try to understand their family's past and West Indian heritage, which to them is full of secrets and pain. | |
| Keyword 1: | women | |
| Keyword 2: | migration | |
| Keyword 3: | children | |
| Keyword 4: | heritage | |
| Keyword 5: | home | |
| Keyword 6: | belonging | |
| Keyword 7: | blackness | |
| Keyword 8: | pride | |
| Keyword 9: | West Indian | |
| Keyword 10: | mother-daughter relationship | |
| Keyword 11: | mother-son relationship | |
| Keyword 12: | first generation | |
| Keyword 13: | second generation | |
| Text Reference 1: | The Nature of Mother in "Dreaming Rivers" | |
| Text Reference 2: | Taking a Different Angle: Perspectives on the Depiction of Women in Black British Independent Film of the 1980s | |
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