Motherhood Movies

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

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...

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...

Examines the intergenerational impact of addiction by chronicling the love, labor, loss, and uncertainty of one woman’s struggle to live a life...

One of the biggest burdens a soul can carry is the loss of a loved one. How do you let go of someone you brought into the world? In this documentary,...

"Amidst grief and family estrangement, a teenager must break emotional barriers at his mother's funeral, triggering suffocation and guilt."

Three separate stories – a mother, her teenage daughter, and a police officer – converge thanks to one event: the titular incident,...

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...

As the day begins, a woman sets out to go about her routine, until she decides to take her children to the cemetery to see zombies. When she returns...

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...

Clémence is confined to her bed. Her future calls out to her, showing her places, people, and glimpses of other lives. But how can this future...

The dissolution of a family in 10 minutes.

Elena's excitement for a day at the pool with her mother is shattered when she witnesses an episode of violence between her parents. Elena plays...

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

A filmmaker captures her wife’s journey of high-risk pregnancy, birth, and early motherhood in this short documentary. Consequently, she...

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...

A portrait of a depressed mother and her child.