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What it’s Like To Be My Mother/ Jak to jest być moją matką
Since her accident three years before Monika has been forced to move on a wheel chair. Her daughter - Julia – shoots a film about her mother which is part of her school project. Julia’s film allows the mother and daughter to talk about things that have lacked courage to talk about so far.

director: Norah McGettigan
screenplay: Norah McGettigan
director of photography: Marius Matzow Gulbrandsen
production manager: Agata Golańska
production design: Joanna Pęzińska
costumes: Marta Skajnowska
production photos: Piotr Zatoń, Anna Włoch

cast: Iza Kuna, Olga Frycz, Wojciech Mecwaldowski, Zbigniew Kaleta, Katarzyna Chmara, Lech Sołuba

producer: the Polish Filmmaking Association, co-producer: TVP Kultura Channel
co-producer and executive producer: Wajda Studio
co-producer: Keep It Country Productions Ltd.
co-financed by: Polski Instytut Sztuki Filmowej

Norah McGettigan - Born in the North-West of Ireland, Norah Mc Gettigan is a film and theatre director/writer/actor. She has a BA in theatre studies from the University of Ulster in Northern Ireland and an MA in film directing from the Polish National Film School in Lodz.
Her award-winning films The Water Fight and A Song For Rebecca were both officially selected for the Cinefondation competition at the Cannes Film Festival. Her more recent film What it’s like to be my Mother produced by the Andrzej Wajda Master School of Film Directing, (Warsaw), is enjoying continued success having won awards across the world including second prize at the San Sebastian Short Film competition in 2008, First Prize at  The Way We Live film festival in Munich, award for The Best Short Drama at Picture This Film Festival in Canada and  Second Prize of Short Film Competition at Go East- Wiesbaden. 
Now working full-time in film and television, Norah will shoot her debut feature The Sound of All Things Passing in Autumn 2010 with Colombian director Gabriel Enrique Vargas Vasquez. (IFB funded), produced by Venom Films.

• Second Price of the Jury - International Short Film Festival look&roll, Szwajcaria (2010)