Mama Lova

This movie is about a mother Adele (Mata Gabin) whose son has recently died due to a drug gang violence in the neighborhood. She does not want young boys to buy or sell drugs in her area and in stopping that is assaulted by a young lad Tarick (Daniel Joseph). Not knowing what to do - she joins a boxing class to protect herself from future assault. Tarick finds it difficult to run his operations in that area and threatens Adele's daughter of causing harm to her younger brother. When Adele comes to know this she goes and confronts Tarick and in a well directed boxing street fist fight knocks Tarick down.

The movie is of 17 minutes and is Directed by Jean François Taver - who started his journey as an additional crew in 2012 in various departments and learned the ropes of film making. In 2015 - he directed his first short. In a span of 5 years - he has already directed 4 short films. Amazing.

Mata Gabin is casted perfectly as Adele and so is Tarick - played so well by Daniel Joseph. He looks real menacing in that role.

Though the idea seemed just a little bit stretched of a regular Mother knocking down a local drug-gang boy in a boxing street fight, yet it does evoke enough emotional punch to overlook that minor aspect. I would like to specially mention that fight scene which is pictured very well and looks so real.

The short movie has potential to be made in a full fledged 90 minute movie too.

I would go with 6.5 out of 10