Mother Movies

A minimalist first film about the monotonous everyday life of a man and his schizophrenic mother

Manuela is a woman who leads an extremely gridded life, always following a list of tasks that gives meaning to her existence. The moment that list...

A single mother of two, after being diagnosed with cancer, embarks on a journey to re-connect with her estranged birth mother.

Since the mother left, the relationship between Aksa and his father, Anton becomes tenuous. Anton still have deep worries over his wife's left and...

A complex series of events transpires after a paranoid guy snoops on his girlfriend's phone and sees that she has been texting with someone else.

Idi and Rita live with their grandmother, Manie. Idi tries to keep the memories they have of their mother, by drawing on his school notebook. By the...

A family embarks on a bittersweet Sunday outing to honour the memory of their departed loved one. On their way there, they engage in heartfelt...

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 dedicated wife and mother takes the blame for embezzling money that was actually stolen by her husband in order to buy medicine and a doctor's care...

When a prominent abortion clinic owner goes missing along with a string of other black community leaders, her singing daughter and her fellow female...

A dinner goes horribly wrong.

After discovering his mother has hidden a puppy for the past two months, Dean debates whether or not to fight to keep the dog.

A photomontage telling the story of Jamie’s life from his birth to the moment his mother dies unexpectedly.

Exploring the intersections between gendered reproductive labor that keeps the cultural space in motion, and the reproductive labor of motherhood, A...

Jacqueline, an overworked and frustrated mother, gets a strange and horrifying request from a tree. When she complies, it brings violence to the...

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...

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