Mia Madre

Mia Madre
Film poster
Directed by	Nanni Moretti
Produced by	Nanni Moretti Domenico Procacci
Screenplay by	Nanni Moretti Valia Santella Francesco Piccolo
Story by	Gaia Manzini Nanni Moretti Valia Santella Chiara Valerio
Starring	Margherita Buy
Cinematography	Arnaldo Catinari
Edited by	Clelio Benevento
Production companies	Arte France Cinéma Fandango Ifitalia Le Pacte Rai Cinema Sacher Film
Distributed by	01 Distribution (Italy) Le Pacte (France)
Release date	16 April 2015 (2015-04-16) (Italy) 16 May 2015 (2015-05-16) (Cannes) 2 December 2015 (2015-12-02) (France)
Running time	107 minutes
Country	Italy France
Language	Italian English

Mia Madre (English: My Mother) is a 2015 Franco-Italian drama film directed by Nanni Moretti. It was selected to compete for the Palme d'Or at the 2015 Cannes Film Festival. It was screened in the Special Presentations section of the 2015 Toronto International Film Festival.

Margherita (Margherita Buy) is a director working on a social-realist film about a factory strike called Noi Siamo Qui (We Are Here), starring Italian-American actor Barry Huggins (John Turturro) as the factory owner. Huggins consistently fails to deliver his lines properly and the fraught nature of the shoot is exasperated by unhelpful advice from Margherita to her actors. She breaks up with her boyfriend, an actor in the film, and is divorced from the father of her daughter, Livia (Beatrice Mancini). Her brother Giovanni (Nanni Moretti) has taken time off work to help care for their ailing mother, Ada (Giulia Lazzarini), a retired classics teacher who has been hospitalised. Margherita comes to feel guilty for not taking on more responsibility for her mother and reflects on her often cold relations with her family, friends and colleagues.