Mother Movies

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 dee...

Wanting a better life for herself and her child, Amani decides to flee Lebanon. Her journey unravels impossible choices and sacrifices only a Mother c...

A lonely road stretches along the desert of Chihuahua, Lucia and her son Ismael driving through assuming that the pathway together is not over yet.

A young girl heads out for a night of fun but just before she leaves, her mom tells her to "put your coat on".

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

The story about how Britt-Marie took back the brush factory from her husband’s cruel brother at the end of the fifties was one of Malin’s childhood fa...

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

A psychedelic Soviet/Estonian animation short. A hare boy doesn't want to go to sleep in the evening. His mother tries to scare him with a fox, a wolf...

François Delisle draws an intimate portrait of his mother in a nursing home. A chronicle of the daily life and medical care of a woman approaching the...

The story of a young Micmac girl whose name means "the light from the dawn."

Three people live in Doosan Apartment in Guro-dong. Me, mom, and my grandfather. Even though it has been 12 years since dad died, we are still living...

After discovering his mother has hidden a puppy for the past two months, Dean debates whether or not to fight to keep the dog.

A short dance film about a mother’s relationship to her pregnancy, as she deals with fear and hope about bringing a black baby boy into the world in 2...

The stories of a group of Latina migrant mothers whose kids have been taken away by an unfair system in Italy.

After a young mother's daughter slips into a coma from a freak accident, the mother must face her past mental health troubles to save her daughter.

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.