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Croatian director Jure Pavlović is world-premiering his debut feature in the First Feature Competition of the 23rd Tallinn Black Nights Film Festival. Jasna (Daria Lorenci) returns to her childhood home in order to care for her dying mother, Anka (Neva Rosic). Uprooted from her family life in Germany and thus unable to care for her own young children, she is called home to Croatia, where she finds herself enveloped in a very different and stifling environment. Stubborn, confrontational and perhaps even manipulative, Jasna’s mother does not make her daughter’s return easy. Jasna calls on family members, old friends and carers in an attempt to provide comfort in these final days. Instead, she realises that she must navigate a tangled web of grudges dating back to her own childhood, hoping to find some semblance of peace. This is the plot of Jure Pavlović’s debut feature, the psychological drama Mater,...