In 2007, director Nadine Kuipers completed her final project for the Film Academy, Moeders Mooiste, about her reunion with her drug-addicted, estranged mother. Now, in a new documentary, she explores her dilemma: should she keep fighting and caring for her mother, or should she choose her own life instead? How unconditional is a daughter’s love for her mother? Would she rather just have an “ex-mother”?

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Directed and written by: Nadine Kuipers
Producer: Submarine
Co-producer: HUMAN
Release: 2010
Length: 55 minutes

Director Nadine Kuipers
Producers Bruno Felix, Femke Wolting
Editor Annelies van Woerden
Camera André Jäger, Ivan Barbosa, Nadine Kuipers, Eric Lor, Jorrit Garretsen Assistant
Camera Marinka Schippers
Sound Menno Euwe, Leon van Sprakelaar, David Spaans
Music Vladimír Cháb
Sound editor Alex Tugushin
Re-recording mixer Gabor Verhoeven
Animations Sverre Frederiksen, Leander Huizinga, Mireille de Koning
Lab & colour correction Cineco
Assistant editor Rizky Gerilya
Executive producer Fabie Hulsebos
Production coordinator Anne Buiter
Production assistant Nikki Smit
Production HUMAN Manja Wilkinson
Commissioning editor HUMAN Jeroen Berkvens, Bert Janssens
Publicity Yaniv Wolf

This production was made with the support of the Dutch Cultural Media Fund
A Submarine production in coproduction with HUMAN

© 2010 Submarine & HUMAN