Motherhood Movies

Documentary essay based on portraits of five women, their different ways of living motherhood, challenges and particularities.

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...

One of the biggest burdens a soul can carry is the loss of a loved one. How do you let go of someone you brought into the world? In this documentary,...

A filmmaker captures her wife’s journey of high-risk pregnancy, birth, and early motherhood in this short documentary. Consequently, she...

Over the course of one night, Juanita, a teacher battling depression teams up with her delinquent student to retrieve something important for her....

After a health crisis concerning her womb, a filmmaker contemplates her decision to not have children.

Wife, Mother, Arab, British, Muslim...Esther is on a mission to show you what life is like when you can't meet the expectations of your identity....

In her debut stand-up special, Harriet takes bad aim at being married (for now), motherhood and the beauty industry.

In a society where the government predicts the genetic intellectual capacity of every newborn child, a pregnant woman's fetus is rated a perfect, but...

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...

A family’s difficult but endearing journey that re-defines motherhood: is it through nature or nurture? Yasmine is a young woman forced to...

Marie-Hélène, my mother, is retiring and takes with her her memories, her anxieties and the mental burden of having raised three...