Mother Movies

"Beyond" is a feature film documentary focusing on the life of Tamara Mark, who transitions from being a rising star in Broadway and Hollywood to a...

Sometimes little questions need big answers.

Before WWII: Dr. Hasenbein lives with his son Peter in a small town. Aunt Uschi's orphanage houses many children and a hamster. When the hamster...

A member of the jieitai ("Self-Defense Force"; i.e. Japanese military) is on leave and finds a woman giving birth in a graveyard in the former...

A man suffering from paranoia and delusions is convinced that the city water source is contaminated

A single mother must feed her daughter's pet.

On a tortuous visit to the nutritionist, Julia (16) must decide whether she continues to live in the shadow of her mother's comments regarding her...

A woman looking for her kidnapped son finds one of the men who took him.

A desperate woman who can no longer support her elderly mother with dementia takes her for one last drive.

What if you love your child, but are unhappy in your role as a mother? Spijtmoeders is a documentary film about mothers who, if they could make the...

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...

A psychedelic Soviet/Estonian animation short. A hare boy doesn't want to go to sleep in the evening. His mother tries to scare him with a fox, a...

In suburban London, on New Years Eve in 1999, an Afghan housewife lives cut off from society by her controlling husband. In secret, with the aid of a...

A grieving mother who suffered the tragic loss of her daughter must decide if she can provide a loving home to a child who's lost her parents.

A dinner goes horribly wrong.

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...

Raw follows Arturo, as he sneaks out for his first hookup with another man. During the encounter, his shame around sex and intimacy begins to...

The death of her clergyman husband causes Mrs. Stanley, young mother of teenage twins, to change her style of life.

Thomas Haemmerli is about to celebrate his fortieth birthday when he learns of his mother's death. A further shock follows when he and his brother...