Mother Movies

When an under appreciated single mother intercepts a strange transmission on her pocket radio she suspects that it may be linked to her teenage sons...

A wealthy young man writes a play under a different name to prove to his overbearing mother that he can succeed on his own.

Yangon, 1998. A boy and his mother are waiting for the return of the father, a civil servant, to move out another town at Upper Burma. On the last...

A daughter sees her mother in a dream and is reminded that before being a mom, she was once a little girl. Together, they honor each others wildest...

When filmmaker Mari Soppela took her children and husband to live for a year on a sacred mountain in her native Finland, she was fulfilling a...

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

Filmmaker Diego Gutiérrez knows that he is soon to lose two loved ones: his mother Gina Coppe and his best friend Danniel Danniel. Both ask...

As the months pass through her, Mai gives us a glimpse into old age that explores between being abandoned and being belonged, passing the time and...

After discovering his mother has hidden a puppy for the past two months, Dean debates whether or not to fight to keep the dog.

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...

One family suffers from the death of their mother and wife. Amid the suffering, each one seeks a way to deal with the loss and Mariana, the eldest...

Ninlawan Pinyo is the matriarch of a Thai American family, who hustled for her fortune by founding a naem pork sausage factory in Chiang Mai,...

What are one week films? They're an assignment we do our first week back at CalArts, designed to dust off cobwebs by throwing us straight into the...

A fantasy about a daughter’s yearning for her mother’s warmth and comfort, which turns into a nightmare about harsh reality of a group of...

Adapted from the short story " Let's play a game " by the Italian writer Alberto Moravia . It's a strange story between a little girl and her...

A man found a strange flesh in the middle of his house.

A short dance film about a mother’s relationship to her pregnancy, as she deals with fear and hope about bringing a black baby boy into the...

32-year-old Siheon, a delivery worker at Eurwangni Beach, is soon to be a college student. One day, as he is congratulated by the aunties at the...

A short film depicting the universality of life, growth, and how beautiful life is to simply exist. The film shows how beautiful it can be when we...