Mother Movies

Returning to her home town, overwhelmed by the birth of her firstborn, nineteen-year-old Chloe van Heerden tries to come to terms with motherhood....

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...

August, a teenage grocery store cashier, faces a difficult choice: Does she stop and help a young single mother in need, or turn a blind eye for the...

Terry Wilson is a 70-year-old lifelong resident of Meadowvale Village, Ontario's first heritage district. As development looms and begins to destroy...

One day, Hiroko accidentally starts a small fire while she is cooking. Although it does not lead to a serious incident, it does result in her going...

This autobiographical film documents an attempt at healing the trauma of touch between mother and child, as the filmmaker and their mother talk...

When the critically acclaimed, tough and coming of age actress Thea Barfoed ends her rehab, she confronts a hard choice. During her heavy drinking...

It isn't easy to find a dream to chase when you're young, but Mugiko has one: she can't wait to become an anime voice actress. Saving up for classes...

Yangon, 1998. A boy and his mother are waiting for the return of the father, a civil servant, to move out another town at Upper Burma. On the last...

Facing a terminal disease, a mother uses space travel and relativity to stretch her last two years over the lifetime of her baby daughter, visiting...

Modern dance is an evocative narrative tool in Georgia Parris' debut, which investigates a young woman's identity and the complex relationship she...

A young Black father must learn to navigate parenthood after his girlfriend mysteriously abandons him and their five-year-old daughter.

A mother and son duo get inadvertently shipped in a container from London to Morocco with nothing but their pajamas. The adventure takes them through...

When an under appreciated single mother intercepts a strange transmission on her pocket radio she suspects that it may be linked to her teenage sons...

The horror of Jen's teenage past catches up with her when she takes her autistic son to a birthday party in her hometown.

Rachel Crow stars as a woman who is approached by a man who has kidnapped her daughter. If the woman complies with the man's wishes, then the...

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 reformed criminal faces his past to save his daughter from old sins and prove his innocence.

Oum Karim, a 60-year-old Beiruti lady, is used to preparing Lahm Bi Ajin (Lebanese ham pie) once per week.

Mina is dreaming of becoming a painter and Petros works in a company. They meet and fall in love during the carnival, but later lose contact. They...