Anne Zohra Berrached : 2013
Two Mothers
Katja, 43 and Isabella, 37, decide to have a child. However, like many lesbian couples in Germany, they soon discover that this is much more difficult than they first imagined. Citing legal reasons, most of the sperm banks and fertility clinics refuse to treat them. Fortunately, they are able to find one doctor willing to help, for a large sum, but after several months fertilisation is unsuccessful. Katja decides she wants to call a halt to their project on account of Isa's psychological and emotional stress and the toll it is taking on their relationship, not to mention their beleaguered bank balance. But Isa cannot give up. She finds a dealer who sells them a kit enabling them to perform the insemination comfortably at home. There are plenty of men on his website willing to sell their sperm for various sums, sometimes with one or two additional conditions. And so they begin the lengthy task of casting for a potential donor. A sensitively told story that is part experiment and part salutary tale charting the vibrant terrain between fiction and reality. Anne Zohra Berrached's first feature won the FGYO-Award Dialogue en perspective when it premiered at Berlin International Film Festival 2013.
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