Motherhood Movies

Forced to become a mother, Helena plans to run away with her boyfriend and abandon her son. However, on the day of the escape, the boy gives up and...

Adara, an 18-year-old teenager, has a very close relationship with her mother, until one day she finds out that she suffers from a terminal illness,...

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...

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

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

Documentary essay based on portraits of five women, their different ways of living motherhood, challenges and particularities.

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...

In a society where the government predicts the genetic intellectual capacity of every newborn child, a pregnant woman's fetus is rated a perfect, but...

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

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 family’s difficult but endearing journey that re-defines motherhood: is it through nature or nurture? Yasmine is a young woman forced to...

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...

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...

Tatiana faces an economic crisis that has forced her to be temporarily away from her kids, her "gang", as she calls them. By writing out her feelings...

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

A mother explores enigmas and secrets with her kids.

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,...

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