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Jennifer Steinman’s debut feature, Motherland, captures the heartbreak of several women who have lost their children but who are trying to overcome their grief by helping others. It is hard not to be moved by this simple but effective documentary.

Motherland is being streamed digitally to households by Gigantic Digital Cinema. It may end up working better on a small screen than in theatres, given the intimate nature of the material. Viewers who seek it out will be glad they did.

Steinman, who directed and co-produced and co-edited, follows six American mothers whose grown children have died (in different ways) as they take a 17-day trip together to South Africa to care for youngsters at risk, including children with HIV. The journey proves both heartrending and healing at the same time.

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