Mother Movies

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 daughter sees her mother in a dream and is reminded that before being a mom, she was once a little girl. Together, they honor each others wildest...

The film is about the director’s mother, the movie actress Nina Antonova. Now she is 80. She has had hundreds of roles – big and small....

Daddy’s Girl is a story about differences, but also about similarities, reunions and the difficulty to hate. Father and daughter know each...

A short dance film about a mother’s relationship to her pregnancy, as she deals with fear and hope about bringing a black baby boy into the...

A fantasy about a daughter’s yearning for her mother’s warmth and comfort, which turns into a nightmare about harsh reality of a group of...

Based on a true story, this short film introduces us to a young student, in the 70's Romania, that, having finally finished her semester, and with a...

After a quietly staggering loss, a young man returns to his childhood home and finds himself overwhelmed with recollections of a day once spent with...

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

The story revolved around a typical household of a Nepalese village where a desperate young boy flees home to earn money and to alleviate agony of...

A look at the trials and tribulations of school and childhood.

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

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...

With the loss of her mother imminent, a young woman realises that she must comfort another with similar traumas.

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 young boy struggles with the loss of his mother.

In a snowy winter, a son had a quarrel with his mother before going abroad. The mother tried to say goodbye to him the last minute but the taxi took...

The life of Mi-sun, an elementary school lunch cook, is somewhat similar to that of her mother. The story of Mi-sun, who is someone's daughter, wife,...