Mother Movies

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...

When Satoshi was little, his mother Akiko always took good care of him. She was gentle, but mentally strong. However, two years ago she was diagnosed...

Love, motherhood and a musical career strike dissonant chords in this dark tale of a young Russian woman who tries to keep her balance among wealthy...

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 family trip with boyfriend and child to the stormy island of Hallig Hooge turns into a nerve-wracking confrontation with her role as wife and...

A tense phone call between a mother and daughter.

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

A young man takes a succession of odd jobs in order to save enough money to buy himself and his mother a house. He lands a position in a newspaper...

A female journalist travels to a new neighborhood after getting a (false) lead and is surprised by what she finds.

Daughter and mother live in harmony, until sudden news turned their world upside down.

Después del invierno (After the Winter) is a modern fable. We discover through three characters in extreme situations the human ability to...

A pregnant housewife grapples with her identity as a wife and mother as she plunges deeper into her obsession with bugs.

A young woman investigates the death of her mother, who drowned when her daughter was still a baby. The question is: was it murder, suicide or merely...

After discovering his mother has hidden a puppy for the past two months, Dean debates whether or not to fight to keep the dog.

Tatjana in Motherland is a partly animated documentary essay about Slovenia and its men. It is a “documentary-tale” of how Slovenian...