Mother Movies

Artistic director of the National Theater Eric de Vroedt writes and directs a performance about his own mother Winnie, who passed away in 2020. This p...

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

A young soldier returns home from the Civil War carrying a terrible secret that threatens to estrange the only family he has left: his mother.

Something crazy happened and Mom and Klai switched bodies. Will Mom survive in Klai's Body? Will Klai survive in Mom's Body?

A mother tries to support her son and his gender identity by inviting a new friend to dinner.

A tense phone call between a mother and daughter.

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 dis...

Herlinda Augustin is a Shipibo healer who lives with her family in Peruvian Amazonia. Will she and other healers be able to maintain their ancient tra...

A woman grieves the loss of her infant daughter. (Click the "TRAILER" link to view the film on YouTube!)

A mother calls for outside help when her son begins misbehaving.

A story about the special relationship between Jaana and her daughter Liisa who died in a traffic accident at the age of 16.

‘Over the course of several summer days in Split I talked to my mom about everything. I mean, really everything.’

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 fi...

Lucia, pregnant with her first child, prepares herself to be a single mother

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 m...

After All is said and done. A man clears out his childhood home, remembering past conversations.

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. It is a person...

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 dee...