Motherhood Movies

After giving birth to her first child at age 20, Mona Achache had the idea to make a film on childbirth. She filmed the work of midwives to produce...

A mother’s attempt to save her twins ends in their separation, setting off years of loss until fate brings them back together.

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

Life Is Precious! is one of Simonova's earliest sand pieces. An anti-abortion work, it is built around the image of a fetus during an abortion and...

Adara, an 18-year-old teenager, has a very close relationship with her mother, until one day she finds out that she suffers from a terminal illness,...

An older professor longing for motherhood must recalibrate her path to pregnancy when she realizes one of her favorite students is a potential sperm...

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...

A recently single mother must learn to let go of her fear and obsession about her abusive husband in order to save her son from the hands of a...

An unwanted pregnancy triggers the journey into adulthood for Makenya, a Dominican-Haitian teenager who lives in the Batey, a community surrounded...

A story about the special relationship between Jaana and her daughter Liisa who died in a traffic accident at the age of 16.

Anne Edmonds floods her bag at least twice a week and becoming a mother hasn't helped this. This is Anne's long awaited return to the stage. Kick...

The artist Johanna Faust is about to leave her children to finally devote herself to her art again. A vague memory comes to her mind: Didn't her...

A tired mother begins to tell her daughter a horror story but as she recalls the events the worlds collide, amalgamating the line between reality and...

A mother explores enigmas and secrets with her kids.

A harried thirty-something woman is forced to decide whether she wants to be a mother after unexpectedly giving birth to her reproductive organs at...

A dream-like exploration of the interconnected lives of two women and two children, celebrating the profound moments of love, loss, and resilience...

A final-year university student moves into a boarding house run by a caring yet possessive landlady. When strange occurrences begin to disrupt her...

During a fierce frontier winter, a young mother struggles to find presents for her young children.

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