Motherhood Movies

A tragic portrait of mother and child exploring grief through music and lyrical imagery.

We follow three women on an emotional and thought-provoking journey as they lend their bodies and carry someone else's child.

A mother discovers that her son has a disability that causes her breast milk to intoxicate him. But the discovery comes too late to prevent the loss...

Given the fetishizing and normalizing character that is given to motherhood in patriarchy in order to perpetuate the social order, do we truly choose...

Outaouais, summer 1996. Solange, a 23-year-old Rwandan refugee, finds political asylum in Hull with her four-year-old daughter Lisa. Their...

Based on the true story of a mother at the end of her tether who finds understanding and solace from a stranger on the beach. But is she right to...

What happens when a baby is born? What if there is no milk? Or just a drop too much? An animated short film which describes the mental process of...

Pauline, a beguiling woman in her 60s, returns to her hometown, Turin, for the first time since she was ten years old. She has inherited her...

The final months of pregnancy and the first ones after the birth of a baby are unique experiences in a woman's life. And when this daily life is...

Three separate stories – a mother, her teenage daughter, and a police officer – converge thanks to one event: the titular incident,...

A filmmaker seeking inspiration for her next movie brings her volatile husband and defiant young son camping on the Oregon coast. When her competing...

Esteban has left home for Spain, to study. He returns to see his parents in Paris for holidays. Between walks and Sunday lunches, Anne and Pascal do...

When you're a newly divorced woman with two older children, it is very difficult to "rebuild your life". By chance, Monica meets someone new, but...

In this Iranian film, social worker Mina (Fateme Motamed-Aria) tells the reformatory head they should offer genuine emotional feedback to their...

Wench is a show about Jess' mid-life metamorphosis, featuring hilarious stories of her adventures in promiscuity, privilege, and pubes. She’s...

Documentary essay based on portraits of five women, their different ways of living motherhood, challenges and particularities.

Over the course of one night, Juanita, a teacher battling depression teams up with her delinquent student to retrieve something important for her....

"Amidst grief and family estrangement, a teenager must break emotional barriers at his mother's funeral, triggering suffocation and guilt."