Mother Movies

When Nina and her high school friends receive eerie text messages declaring that they will all die within three days, they dismiss it as a hokey...

Australian filmmaker Sophia Turkiewicz investigates why her Polish mother abandoned her and uncovers the truth behind her mother's wartime escape...

A mother visits her reclusive adult son in a last ditch effort to convince him to come to the hospital to say goodbye to his dying father, but his...

32-year-old Siheon, a delivery worker at Eurwangni Beach, is soon to be a college student. One day, as he is congratulated by the aunties at the...

A Chinese "study mama" considers her daughter Nana as her everything, sometimes her fantasy world. But after having a fight this morning, she finds...

Delphyne (meaning ‘womb’) discusses the stigma around menstruation. Addressing shame and acceptance, taboos around menstrual blood are...

A single mother must feed her daughter's pet.

A young teenage single mother (Maggi) struggling to raise her baby daughter (Lucy) finds the weight of responsibility bearing down on her shoulders....

A mother and daughter struggle to survive a deadly home invasion.

‘Over the course of several summer days in Split I talked to my mom about everything. I mean, really everything.’

Françoise Barnier, the film's heroine, is a mother. One day, she stole something. She was in dire straits but no more so than usual. She was...

A young boy seeks the help of an ancient fairytale creature to save his dying mother.

Manuela is a woman who leads an extremely gridded life, always following a list of tasks that gives meaning to her existence. The moment that list...

A woman gathers her friends together in a cabin to try and protect them from a killer after she dreams each of their deaths. This, however, just puts...

Lucia, pregnant with her first child, prepares herself to be a single mother

When filmmaker Mari Soppela took her children and husband to live for a year on a sacred mountain in her native Finland, she was fulfilling a...

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