Motherhood Movies

n the Jam Jar is an invitation to the intimacy of 81-year-old Joan’s final days, whose musings silently echo with Dan’s, her 50-year-old son. This fic...

A tragic portrait of mother and child exploring grief through music and lyrical imagery.

Margot's overwhelming experience of miscarriage

Lengua de diamante submerges into the past, present, and future life of Elsa Riveros, Colombia’s First Lady of Rock. Long after her iconic career as a...

An animated inner monologue of a woman confronting her relationship with her son, who has a disability.

Impressionistic glimpses of London life from early morning to rush hour.

Outaouais, summer 1996. Solange, a 23-year-old Rwandan refugee, finds political asylum in Hull with her four-year-old daughter Lisa. Their integration...

Babisa has just had a beautiful baby girl. But to be released from hospital she needs a signature from her own mum, whom she has not seen since she wa...

Wench is a show about Jess' mid-life metamorphosis, featuring hilarious stories of her adventures in promiscuity, privilege, and pubes. She’s finding...

We follow three women on an emotional and thought-provoking journey as they lend their bodies and carry someone else's child.

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...

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...

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...

Esteban has left home for Spain, to study. He returns to see his parents in Paris for holidays. Between walks and Sunday lunches, Anne and Pascal do t...

What happens when a baby is born? What if there is no milk? Or just a drop too much? An animated short film which describes the mental process of bec...

A mother discovers that her son has a disability that causes her breast milk to intoxicate him. But the discovery comes too late to prevent the loss o...

Filmmaker Maarten de Schutter attempts to reconstruct the lost memories of his mother, AIDS activist and feminist anthropologist Martine de Schutter....

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