Motherhood Movies

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

An animated inner monologue of a woman confronting her relationship with her son, who has a disability.

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 portrait of a depressed mother and her child.

A young filmmaker makes a movie honoring the life of his childhood nanny and their close bond.

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

Lengua de diamante submerges into the past, present, and future life of Elsa Riveros, Colombia’s First Lady of Rock. Long after her iconic...

In a series of letters to her young son, a mother, soldier and filmmaker documents her thoughts from the Ukrainian frontline.

A Mother struggles to bond with her baby.

The impossibility of guide her three daughters in life and the constant failed promise to be a good mother frustrate and imprison Susana more and...

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...

Confronted with trauma, women contain, compartmentalize, distract, and ultimately carry on— lessons learned from a society of partially blind...

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...

While imagining the possibility of becoming a mother, Adele is moving between resistance and abandon, wrestling with a vortex of feelings she’s...

Marie-Hélène, my mother, is retiring and takes with her her memories, her anxieties and the mental burden of having raised three...