Mother Movies

Middle-aged women start acting and launch a drama club. However, nothing big or small goes right. But they never give up the play.

This autobiographical film documents an attempt at healing the trauma of touch between mother and child, as the filmmaker and their mother talk...

Francis Ryan, living high-and-free-wheeling life as the wife of gangster "Smiley" Ryan, spends some time behind bars as a result of her husband's...

After years of attempting to leave behind the tragedy of seeing her parents killed, a violent assault brings her face to face with the demons that...

In this revealing one-hour special, we look at the lives of older mums and women desperate to become mothers - at any age. Medical experts say that...

The film follows different stages in the life of Sofía, a young girl born in Argentina of Chinese descent. From her childhood to her...

Elisabeth and Gudrun are two Swedish divorcées, both over 40, who meet when Elisabeth parks her car on a loading zone and is ticketed by...

A young polar bear leaves home for the first time, but finds it difficult to bid her mother farewell.

In a sleepy hill town in northeast India, a lonely mother tries to reconnect with her estranged policeman son by channeling her inner detective to...

A story of a mother and her son and a race against a tortoise where you always lose.

A complex series of events transpires after a paranoid guy snoops on his girlfriend's phone and sees that she has been texting with someone else.

A film essay that intertwines the director's gaze with that of her late mother. Beyond exploring mourning and absence as exclusively painful...

Facing a terminal disease, a mother uses space travel and relativity to stretch her last two years over the lifetime of her baby daughter, visiting...

A mother tries to comfort her grieving son, but on each attempt her son’s silence becomes more and more deafening. An outing to the local...

A Sicilian widow earns her living as a clairvoyant, in Milan, but she hasn't got any power at all. Her son instead holds supernatural powers and with...

In the aftermath of a medieval battle, a war-ravaged soldier meets a peasant woman searching for her warrior son. Unexpectedly their lives will...

Exploring the intersections between gendered reproductive labor that keeps the cultural space in motion, and the reproductive labor of motherhood, A...