Mother Movies

A tense phone call between a mother and daughter.

A mother tries to comfort her grieving son, but on each attempt her son’s silence becomes more and more deafening. An outing to the local...

Calling Mother is about the moments when you just have to call your mum. It is a compilation of phone calls made by different people to their...

When a man leaves his mistress to care for his seriously ill mother, the apartment becomes a battlefield between sexual manipulation and death, which...

"My mother is spending all her time with her dying father. I’m spending all my time filming her. As the end is getting closer, my mother and I...

A short 1978 documentary based on the experiences of breastfeeding mothers.

A story about the special relationship between Jaana and her daughter Liisa who died in a traffic accident at the age of 16.

What if you love your child, but are unhappy in your role as a mother? Spijtmoeders is a documentary film about mothers who, if they could make the...

Based on a true story, this short film introduces us to a young student, in the 70's Romania, that, having finally finished her semester, and with a...

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

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 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...

A mother determined and completely focused on finding her estranged boyfriend ignores signs of her daughter’s emotional trauma until she is...

A minimalist first film about the monotonous everyday life of a man and his schizophrenic mother

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 complex series of events transpires after a paranoid guy snoops on his girlfriend's phone and sees that she has been texting with someone else.

Kostas is a law-abiding citizen, a quite man living with his mother, his sister Kaiti and his younger brother, Giorgos, who is a student. He works...