The Miserable Mother
“For ‘The Miserable Mother’, stuck at home with her boyfriend, ‘Peter Pan’, and their newborn, motherhood becomes a prison. Within her own four walls, the boundaries blur between inside and outside, society and subject,
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“For ‘The Miserable Mother’, stuck at home with her boyfriend, ‘Peter Pan’, and their newborn, motherhood becomes a prison. Within her own four walls, the boundaries blur between inside and outside, society and subject,
Featuring actual correspondence between the filmmaker's father and the caretaker of his ancestral home on Hainan Island over the past 30 years, we take a glimpse into the life of a 65-year-old Hainan-born Singaporean ret
Early short film by Matthew Giaquinto
If losing a child to an illness is one of the worst things that can happen to a family, Dr. Nadia Tremonti has made it her mission to make it better. It's not easy. But as a pediatric palliative care physician, she works
When Mary finds out that she's pregnant before marriage, things in B.C. Nazareth get a little rocky.
This film explores the development and use of images and music which personify Ireland as a woman in Irish culture and nationalism. The film highlights how these cultural and stereotypical images of Ireland as a woman in
On 25 April 1995 16 year old Matthew Easdale was shot in Brisbane. His mother was interviewed on the radio. Using rotoscoped animation the film presents the story in two very different ways.
For this documentary, Merewether, a 39-year-old single filmmaker, decides to have a baby on her own and films her journey to have one.
The unconditional love and possessive affection a mother harbors for her offspring will make her stop at nothing to protect her child. Not even death.
The film is set during the annual fasting dedicated to the Virgin Mary. While depicting the habits and customs related to this fasting in her familiar surrounding, the director asks her female Coptic relatives to tell th
After a head injury, Doug goes to stay with his gay older brother, Isaac and his lover Josh. When the addled Doug mistakes Isaac for his Dad, it's only natural for transvestite Josh to become Mom.
1st segment in love for me mama
The story about how Britt-Marie took back the brush factory from her husband’s cruel brother at the end of the fifties was one of Malin’s childhood fairy tales. Britt-Marie is now 95 years old and trying to set the story
Turkish and Pakistani women tell a female film crew about the difficulties they have encountered since arriving in Denmark. They talk about where they come from, their culture and religion, and the gender roles and famil
Former Portland director Penny Allen’s (PROPERTY, PAYDIRT) new film is the intimate, turbulent portrait of a French-Algerian-Moroccan family residing in Algeria and adrift following the death of their mother, Zineb, a no
It's been several years since the incident happened. Xianyun tries hard to return to normal life. As a counselor, she hopes to ease her pain of losing her daughter through helping others with their pain. The mother of th
A lesbian mother and her son describe what they have in common… parties, dressing up and shopping.
A mother visits her young adult child's squalid house on Mother's Day.
Mark should be looking forward to his stag do. Instead he's in a forest at 4 in the morning, helping his best friend, Sam dig a grave for their mother-in-law. A corpse will become the least of their worries, as the night