Patrick Zachmann's feature documentary film "Mare Mater" has been selected for the 6th "Cine Migrante International Festival and Formation of Immigrant Human Rights " being held in Buenos Aires in mid-September.

“This is about a journey, a journey through memories and exiles. A journey that spins and weaves all the destinies I stumble upon. The fate of the emigrants leaving their country south of the Mediterranean Sea in order to evade joblessness, boredom, the lack of a future, and the fate of the mothers who let them go away or realize that they’re gone. come back. The sons perish at sea. And if they manage to reach the opposite shore, then Europe is never as prosperous, magnificent and welcoming as they imagined it in their dreams.
This is the story of sons leaving their mothers, of mothers missing their sons. And this is also my own mother’s story, now reaching the term of her life, who left Algeria at the same age than the young migrants I met for that project.
I have done the travel in reverse. I left in search of my long ­forgotten origins, of the missing images in my family photo album."

<a href='http://www.magnumphotos.com/Package/2K1HRGWQQ66U' target='_blank'>Click here</a> to view the images from the accompanying book by Actes Sud.