Motherhood Movies

Two brothers, Samuel and Rodrigo, live with their mother in a suburban town. One day the mother, who has mental health problems, disappears leaving no...

Set in Red Hook, a Brooklyn neighborhood on the verge of gentrification, GOOD FUNK follows three generations of citizens whose lives intersect through...

Acclaimed Montreal band Thee Silver Mt. Zion Memorial Orchestra is one of a growing number of rock groups to have accepted an infant into their tourin...

A reinterpretation of the Greek legend of Penelope, ”the most faithful of wives”, who waited 20 years for her husband Odysseus to return from The Troj...

Pauline, a beguiling woman in her 60s, returns to her hometown, Turin, for the first time since she was ten years old. She has inherited her aunt’s ap...

A West Berlin doctor, married with a two-year-old child, leaves her husband to go to Munich to work in the birth clinic of a hospital. Her husband doe...

The daughter of two famous writers, Helena upholds her late father's reputation, reciting his poems on various occasions and cherishing the memory of...

Dreaming of the West, Boryana is determined not to have a child in communist Bulgaria. Nonetheless, her daughter Viktoria enters the world in 1979, cu...

Twenty-one-year-old Julia had to leave her daughters under the care of a children's shelter house. Five years later, Julia keeps fighting to rebuild h...

A worn out mother, Sara, seeks out the source of her child’s favorite lullaby.

In France, a child is killed by its mother every ten days. By giving a voice to some of these women and their families, this documentary takes a fresh...

Thrown between reality and false Catholic narratives, Luna questions her sanity, exploring independence moving into her first ever apartment, as each...

After giving birth to her first child at age 20, Mona Achache had the idea to make a film on childbirth. She filmed the work of midwives to produce th...

Eva’s being allowed to leave the psychiatric institution she’s lived in for six years. After a long year of waiting, the news arrive: an assisted livi...

An older professor longing for motherhood must recalibrate her path to pregnancy when she realizes one of her favorite students is a potential sperm d...

A Mother struggles to bond with her baby.

Through one woman's experience as an adopted person and also as a mother who relinquished her child in 1971, this documentary highlights the many comp...

Sanda spends all her time working in a plastic factory, raising her two small children and catering to an indifferent husband, leaving little room for...

Laura is frustrated at having to take care of her baby alone, but what she doesn't know is that her worst nightmare is yet to come.