Motherhood Movies

In this Iranian film, social worker Mina (Fateme Motamed-Aria) tells the reformatory head they should offer genuine emotional feedback to their...

Elena's excitement for a day at the pool with her mother is shattered when she witnesses an episode of violence between her parents. Elena plays...

On the cusp of turning 40, wheelchair badminton champion Nina Gorodetsky, has her first and maybe last, chance to participate in the Paralympics....

After surviving an abusive past, Yorkshire mother Tahira discovers strength through trail running. Supported by a running community, she rebuilds her...

A woman struggles to balance work, kids, and marriage, so she hires a handsome young man to help out at home.

42-year-old photographer Jo has her first baby and celebrates the joy of motherhood with her husband and friends. But one drink awakens an old...

When war erupts in Ukraine, three women from different worlds collide at the Romanian border: an Italian woman searching for her missing husband and...

After years of failed infertility treatments and adoptions that have fallen through, Abby is resigned to the fact that motherhood is not in her...

New York Day Women follows a Haitian American woman who unexpectedly sees her mother in Manhattan during a workday—sparking an intimate...

An essay film about stay-at-home moms and the work they do.

An unwanted pregnancy triggers the journey into adulthood for Makenya, a Dominican-Haitian teenager who lives in the Batey, a community surrounded...

Idle hours at a summer cottage, when her husband is at work and the children busy at play, give a wife time to dream a little and reflect on her life...

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

Tatiana faces an economic crisis that has forced her to be temporarily away from her kids, her "gang", as she calls them. By writing out her feelings...

A woman's nightly domestic rituals—from putting her baby to bed to making love—unspool in a playful parade of surreal,...

A pregnant housewife grapples with her identity as a wife and mother as she plunges deeper into her obsession with bugs.

Permission to Operate is a story about a single mother struggling to balance different roles in her life, when her passion for a man overshadows the...

Confronted with trauma, women contain, compartmentalize, distract, and ultimately carry on— lessons learned from a society of partially blind...

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...