Vladimir Bitokov Looks to Find a ‘Home’ in Venice With Sophomore Feature

Rising Russian director Vladimir Bitokov’s sophomore effort, “Mama, I’m Home,” bows this week in the Horizons sidebar of the Venice Film Festival. Following on the heels of his 2018 Karlovy Vary pr…

“Mama, I’m Home” is the story of a bus driver living on the outskirts of a provincial Russian town, where she awaits the return of her only son, who’s fighting for a private military contractor in Syria. When she’s told that he’s been killed in action, she refuses to believe it and begins a grueling public battle to fight for his return. But when all efforts to silence her prove fruitless, a mysterious young man arrives on her doorstep.

Bitokov is a graduate of the directing workshop founded by Alexander Sokurov , where his classmates included, the director of 2019 Un Certain Regard prize winner “Beanpole,” and Kira Kovalenko, who won this year’s Grand Prize in the Cannes sidebar for her feature debut “Unclenching the Fists.” He described studying under the celebrated Russian director as “a chance of a lifetime.” “It was a five-year-long process of creating my identity again from scratch,” he said. “And like any creative process it was a hard road to walk and took a lot of effort.”

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