Motherhood Movies

A recently single mother must learn to let go of her fear and obsession about her abusive husband in order to save her son from the hands of a...

In a world torn apart, silence speaks louder than words. A fleeting moment of birth challenges the noise of war.

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...

A traumatised mother sets off on a personal mission to retrieve her daughter’s favourite stuffed animal from their old home, but can she pull...

Juana moves with her son Juan from the country to Caracas in search of better work and educational opportunities. When they get there they have to...

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

"Fag End" is an astute representation of the metaphorical death of a mother. The movie revolves around a girl named 'Tania', a victim of smoking and...

A non-narrative short film tracking the movement of a flock of women through a megalithic landscape. They appear to be working, enacting a cryptic...

A Mexican housekeeper is forced to confront her past when a cartel boss appears on her doorstep.

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...

A portrait of a depressed mother and her child.

Marie-Hélène, my mother, is retiring and takes with her her memories, her anxieties and the mental burden of having raised three...

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

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

A mother discovers that her son has a disability that causes her breast milk to intoxicate him. But the discovery comes too late to prevent the loss...

Puerto Rico: Young and pregnant, Wilma fears becoming absorbed by motherhood like her sister Luisa, losing both herself and her artistic aspirations....

An older professor longing for motherhood must recalibrate her path to pregnancy when she realizes one of her favorite students is a potential sperm...

After surviving an abusive past, Yorkshire mother Tahira discovers strength through trail running. Supported by a running community, she rebuilds her...

As her adolescence gives way to the obligations of motherhood, troubled Gemma matures in Motherwell, her Scottish hometown, heavily dependent on the...