Three Mothers (2006 film)

Three Mothers (Hebrew: שלוש אמהות, Shalosh Imahot) is a 2006 Israeli drama film, directed by Dina Zvi-Riklis.

The film moves between the current-day relationship of the sisters, now in their sixties, and their story from when they were young, as they relate it to Ruha, Rose's daughter.

As she peels off the sisters' outer layers of secrets and past wrongs, what she hears causes her emotional distress, and she is worried this might affect her attempts to become pregnant.

One of the main challenges the production faced was the casting: It was necessary to find three generations of related women, and Israel has a small cinematic community.

[2] In his Haaretz review, Uri Klein wrote that Three Mothers captivated him; he says that the plot is so thick, that the director is forced sometimes to use clichéd formulas to move it forward, but that the film's virtues far outweigh its weaknesses, especially in the extraordinary portrait of womanhood it paints.