Motherhood Movies

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

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

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...

Through one woman's experience as an adopted person and also as a mother who relinquished her child in 1971, this documentary highlights the many...

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...

In a village in Thailand, Pomm works in a care center for Europeans with Alzheimer's. While she is separated from her children, she helps Elisabeth...

Filmmaker Maarten de Schutter attempts to reconstruct the lost memories of their mother, AIDS activist and feminist anthropologist Martine de...

Impressionistic glimpses of London life from early morning to rush hour.

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 warm and surreal, comic exploration of reproductive anxiety and the pressure to have it all figured out.

When Ines died, she left a very particular legacy, 10 books that read 'For my children'; it was the story of her life. Marked by a youth idyllic...

Wife, Mother, Arab, British, Muslim...Esther is on a mission to show you what life is like when you can't meet the expectations of your identity....

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...

After surviving an abusive past, Yorkshire mother Tahira discovers strength through trail running. Supported by a running community, she rebuilds her...

Nerabe unravels through 11 minutes the process of waiting, the ritual of motherhood through a look full of poetic resonances. She starts with a dance...

Calling Mother is about the moments when you just have to call your mum. It is a compilation of phone calls made by different people to their...

A new mother struggles through an exhausting day, quietly confronting the emotional weight of motherhood and the isolation that follows childbirth