Mother Movies

A portrait of a depressed mother and her child.

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...

A family affected by the opioid crisis struggles to stay together.

When an under appreciated single mother intercepts a strange transmission on her pocket radio she suspects that it may be linked to her teenage sons...

Tatjana in Motherland is a partly animated documentary essay about Slovenia and its men. It is a “documentary-tale” of how Slovenian...

A mother wolf breaks into a hunter's den and takes back her cub, only to find it a motionless trophy. She sings a lullaby hoping that the cub would...

A heartfelt story about three mothers from different social background facing difficulties in raising their children.

Cathy will stop at nothing to get an apology from the man who broke her daughter's heart.

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...

Robin, a rising child star, feels trapped in his house, longing to join the laughter of children outside. His attempt to sneak out sparks a wild...

Rawa dreams of singing on stage and studying in college of fine arts, after he reaches his dreams what will destiny do to him?

Stella suddenly dies, and finds herself pursued by an inhuman being in the purgatory-like realm between life and death as she races to communicate...

A mother discovers that her son has a disability that causes her breast milk to intoxicate him. But the discovery comes too late to prevent the loss...

After her father's death, a young girl begins to experience paranormal activities whenever she's near her father's piano.

Después del invierno (After the Winter) is a modern fable. We discover through three characters in extreme situations the human ability to...

Yangon, 1998. A boy and his mother are waiting for the return of the father, a civil servant, to move out another town at Upper Burma. On the last...

It’s 1964, and when Nan’s husband skips town, she’s left with three daughters, no car, and no income. Determined to hold her family...