Motherhood Movies

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....

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...

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

The final months of pregnancy and the first ones after the birth of a baby are unique experiences in a woman's life. And when this daily life is...

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

When Ines died, she left a very particular legacy, 10 books that read 'For my children'; it was the story of her life. Marked by a youth idyllic...

Nerabe unravels through 11 minutes the process of waiting, the ritual of motherhood through a look full of poetic resonances. She starts with a dance...

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...

A mother explores enigmas and secrets with her kids.

Given the fetishizing and normalizing character that is given to motherhood in patriarchy in order to perpetuate the social order, do we truly choose...

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

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

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...

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