Mother Movies

A film essay that intertwines the director's gaze with that of her late mother. Beyond exploring mourning and absence as exclusively painful...

This comedy story of Joe Haller unwittingly running a sweatshop and Mama Haller keeping the suitors away from her daughters by discussing marriage.

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 young polar bear leaves home for the first time, but finds it difficult to bid her mother farewell.

Have you ever been in a fight? Even thrown a punch? Because Andrew never has. His mom raised him as a pacifist, and she would like to keep it that...

Narrated as a letter to a mother, this short film traces the emotional undercurrents of leaving home and adjusting to a new environment, blending...

When they were children, Claire and Andrea would play Mary Worth (An old game where you say her name into a mirror three times). However, they could...

After years of living in her selfish parents' (Melvyn Douglas and Lynn Bari) egotistical shadows, desperate teenager Jill Bradley (Joan Evans) makes...

Following the sudden death of her conservative father, a transgender woman returns to her small Oklahoma hometown to help her estranged mother...

Hyo-seon is diagnosed early menopause, and his son Jinsu calls for a MacBook. One old cow that would be the money in the house.

Post-war Poland. 10-year-old Marysia lives in the countryside with her mother, Helena, who survived a concentration camp. One day Helena announces...

Sometimes little questions need big answers.

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

Following the death of his mother, 9-year-old Elias goes to extreme lengths to naively bring her back from Jesus’ heaven all while defying his...

A drug-addict mother, locked in a mental institution, confesses she killed of her own son.

Filmmaker Diego Gutiérrez knows that he is soon to lose two loved ones: his mother Gina Coppe and his best friend Danniel Danniel. Both ask...

Based on a true story about a single mother who is forced to hide her child's existence, because of the social and cultural context in order not to...

Nayana is the perfect mother. She's tireless in taking care of her family even when she's not welcomed by Naura, the oldest daughter. In contrast,...

A story of a mother and her son and a race against a tortoise where you always lose.

Emma Holly is a workaholic single mom whose life starts to unravel when she loses her job in the city as a successful food editor right before the...