Motherhood Movies

Merche rents his only son's room to Günther, a german youngster. She'll start to see him as a possibility to refill some empty spaces in her...

Artist Kate Blackmore looks at motherhood and mobility, film and feminism through the prism of Margaret Dodd's 1982 classic short film 'This Woman is...

Essie Coffey gives the children lessons on Aboriginal culture. She speaks of the importance of teaching these kids about their traditions. Aboriginal...

A young wife and mother rediscovers her long forgotten passion when she is granted the ability to live without sleep.

Nava tries to convince her sister to get back with her husband, while her own fiance is cheating on her.

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

A look at the trials and tribulations of school and childhood.

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...

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

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

Babisa has just had a beautiful baby girl. But to be released from hospital she needs a signature from her own mum, whom she has not seen since she...

A portrait of a depressed mother and her child.

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...

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...

A psychological body horror following a sleep-deprived new mother fearing for her baby's safety as she cycles through night and day, nightmare and...

After a health crisis concerning her womb, a filmmaker contemplates her decision to not have children.

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...

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

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