Onassis Channel | Mommies by Elvira Krithari and Maria Sidiropoulou

A documentary short film produced by Onassis Channel

The film "Mommies" combines the narratives around motherhood of two women who do not know each other, nor are they related in any way. However, they are the two poles of the same genetic process, one as the donor and the other as the recipient of the primary cell of life. After four failed IVF attempts, Joanna becomes a single parent of triplets. She decides to tell them the truth about the way they came into this world. Rosa became and egg donor five times. She doesn’t know how many of them developed into full grown children, but this thought doesn’t scare her. She decided to make some easy cash by giving away a piece of herself. Dozens of eggs and three children later, Rosa and Ioanna give their own answers about origins, roots, fathers and the concept of truth, to questions that most of us didn't know we had.