Mother Movies

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

The suffering and rebellion of 12-year-old François Lepic, nicknamed "Carrot Top" by his mother, who hates him. Occupied with the council...

A dinner goes horribly wrong.

A Garifuna woman returns to Honduras to forget her past and rediscover herself.

In this intimate, experimental drama, a young woman is prey to the denial of the grief of her mother, a painting restorer. Jade runs herself a bath....

Iara, a girl who is about to come of age, dreams of seeing the ocean, but lives in Rio Grande do Norte's countryside with her mother, a woman who's...

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...

Jharia, India, one of the most dangerous places on earth. Fires rage underground, smoke and dangerous fumes belch from cracks in the ground. This is...

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

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...

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

A desperate woman who can no longer support her elderly mother with dementia takes her for one last drive.

True story of a middle class mother charged with murdering her baby, despite her denials. Re-tells the story of the medical and police...

A portrait of a depressed mother and her child.

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...

A young boy struggles with the loss of his mother.

Mother and daughter, separated and alone, mourn the death of their respective husband and father. After this, they begin to hear mysterious noises...

A mass grave was discovered in the small town in eastern Ukraine as consequence of the 2022 Russian invasion. Olena (34) arrives with her daughter...

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