Mother Movies

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...

Emma Holly is a workaholic single mom whose life starts to unravel when she loses her job in the city as a successful food editor right before the...

Mina is dreaming of becoming a painter and Petros works in a company. They meet and fall in love during the carnival, but later lose contact. They...

A film made for television, based on the book of the same name by Libera Carlier. A Flemish family decides to spend the summer holidays on de...

Stuck in a car with his mother, Loïc opens up a sensitive conversation : he no longer wants to walk on the footsteps of his clown parents. As...

Based on true events, Hold Me Down depicts a day in the life of a 19-year-old single mother in the Bronx who works as a stripper at an illegal...

The horror of Jen's teenage past catches up with her when she takes her autistic son to a birthday party in her hometown.

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...

More than one in ten mothers suffer from postpartum depression. Using her own dark experience, the author endeavours to find the key to a better...

With the loss of her mother imminent, a young woman realises that she must comfort another with similar traumas.

German Laura follows her husband and moves to Finland with their baby girl. Her days at home are lonely as her husband is constantly working.

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...

10 May 2007 - China's staggering economic growth has overshadowed a more subtle shift in Chinese society. In domestic life, many women are now ignore...

Following the sudden death of her conservative father, a transgender woman returns to her small Oklahoma hometown to help her estranged mother...

The filmmaker's mother describes stories of his lustful youth over the phone, causing them to reflect on his current love life at the age of 30.

After her father's death, a young girl begins to experience paranormal activities whenever she's near her father's piano.

While a woman makes an omelette, we learn how difficult it is to make ends meet. 7-minute short film which won honorable mention at Sundance 2009....

A heartfelt story about three mothers from different social background facing difficulties in raising their children.