Filmmaker Jesse Lewis-Reece’s short film Mother of Mine is a story of grief and the challenge of learning to live with newfound burdens. Grief isn’t new thematic territory for filmmakers so the challenge with returning to its well-trodden soil is always to show an aspect of it that hasn’t been explored before. Lewis-Reece’s film does this through its attention to detail and specificity, showing how the nuances of gestures can reveal repressed sadness or how locations can quickly switch from being bustling family homes to ghostly vacant spaces. It’s an extremely gripping watch and one that speaks to how the personal can become universal. Dn is proud to premiere Mother of Mine today in conjunction with a conversation with Lewis-Reece (whose BAFTA nominated short Eyelash we featured back in 2020), where he reveals the personal bereavement the film was born out of, his desire to find...