Topic: Maternity

Direction Yngvild Sve Flikke

Cast Kristine Kujath Thorp · Arthur Berning · Nader Khademi · Tora Christine Dietrichson

Plot Astronaut, forest-keeper, cartoonist. Young Rakel has a whole lot of other plans than becoming a mother. She would rather party, get drunk or stoned instead of sitting hours on the...

Direction Pamela Adlon · Louis C.K. · Nisha Ganatra · Lance Bangs

Cast Pamela Adlon · Hannah Alligood · Olivia Edward · Celia Imrie

Plot TV Series (2016-Present Day). An actress raises her three daughters while juggling the pressures of working in Hollywood and being a single parent. 4th Season Premiere: March 5 on FX.

Direction Alison Bell · Sarah Scheller · Trent O'Donnell

Cast Alison Bell · Duncan Fellows · Leon Ford · Noni Hazlehurst

Plot TV Series (2017-). Audrey is determined not to be defined by motherhood. In theory, this seems fairly easy. In practice, her career-focused husband, self-obsessed mother, and fancy-free best friend, make...

Direction Pilar Palomero

Cast Carla Quílez · Àngela Cervantes · Jordan Dumes · Pepe Lorente

Plot At the age of 14, Carla is a wild and rebellious teenager. Living in a modest restaurant on the outskirts of a town with her young single mother, she skips...

Direction Jason Reitman

Cast Elliot Page · Michael Cera · Jennifer Garner · Jason Bateman

Plot Juno Macguff is 16 and according to the adults that surround her, she is too smart for her own good. And yes, she is certainly witty, cultured, sharp in her...

Direction Andrea Testa

Cast Evelyn Fernandez · Guadalupe Sálazar · Aylen Parolini · Luciana Sánchez Lopez

Plot In shades of gray, the calm, static shots show young female visitors to a public hospital in Argentina. This is the place where teenage girls have to make a decision...

Direction Amjad Al Rasheed

Cast Mouna Hawa · Hitham Omari · Yumna Marwan · Salwa Nakkara

Plot Jordan, nowadays. After the death of her husband, Nawal, 30s, has to fight for what she thinks is her inheritance for her only daughter in a region where having a...

Direction Kat Sadler · Simon Bird · Marco Alessi

Cast Kat Sadler · Lizzie Davidson · Louise Brealey · Paul Bazely

Plot Dysfunctional family sitcom following sisters Josie and Billie and their single mother Deb navigating life armed with nothing but poor judgement and self-esteem exclusively tied to people who couldn't care...

Direction Tom Moore

Cast Sissy Spacek · Anne Bancroft · Ed Berke · Carol Robbins

Plot What would you do if someone you loved sat down with you one night and calmly told you that they were going to end their life before morning? This is...

Direction Carlo Sironi

Cast Barbara Ronchi · Claudio Segaluscio · Sandra Drzymalska · Vitaliano Trevisan

Plot Polish Lena is seven months pregnant and she's ready to sell the baby in her belly. Ermanno agrees to pretend to be the father. Fabio, the uncle of Ermanno, will...

Direction Rodrigo García

Cast Naomi Watts · Annette Bening · Kerry Washington · Samuel L. Jackson

Plot A drama centered around three women: A 50-year-old woman (Annette Bening), the daughter (Naomi Watts) she gave up for adoption 35 years ago, and an African American woman (Kerry Washington)...

Direction Clare Weiskopf

Cast Valerie Guarnizo · Clare Weiskopf · Diego Weiskopf · Nicolas van Hemelryck

Plot This is the story of Val and Clare: a mother and a daughter. After the tragic death of her eldest daughter, Val left her kids and family behind and escaped...

Direction Naomi Kawase

Cast Hiromi Nagasaku · Arata Iura · Aju Makita · Miyoko Asada

Plot A woman with an adopted child is contacted unexpectedly by the child's birth mother.

Direction Celia Rico Clavellino

Cast María Vázquez · Adriana Ozores · Aimar Vega · Blanca Apilánez

Plot Teresa changes her vacation plans to help her mother, who has suffered a small accident. Mother and daughter will spend together a summer of the most suffocating, in which they...

Direction Catherine Reitman · Paul Fox · Aleysa Young · Philip Sternberg

Cast Catherine Reitman · Dani Kind · Juno Ruddell · Katherine Barrell

Plot TV Series (2017). Four very different thirty-something working mothers and friends try to balance their jobs, family life and love life in modern-day Toronto, Canada.

Direction Tatsushi Ohmori

Cast Masami Nagasawa · Daiken Okudaira · Sho Gunji · Sadao Abe

Plot Shuhei’s erratic mother feels threatened when he starts to awaken to a world beyond her distorted control, sending the family hurtling towards tragedy.

Direction João Canijo

Cast Nuno Lopes · Filipa Areosa · Rita Blanco · Leonor Silveira

Plot Five women are running an old hotel and trying to save it from inexorable decay. Guests arrive over the course of a weekend: a couple bears the wounds of a...

Direction Jeanne Herry

Cast Sandrine Kiberlain · Gilles Lellouche · Elodie Bouchez · Olivia Côte

Plot The history of the encounter between Alice, 41 years, and Theo, 3 months, handed over to the adoption by his biological mother on the day of its birth.

Direction Greta Gerwig

Cast Saoirse Ronan · Laurie Metcalf · Lucas Hedges · John Karna

Plot The adventures of a student living in Northern California for a year. Saoirse Ronan stars as an artistically inclined young woman trying to define herself in the shadow of her...

Direction Emilio Fernández

Cast Ninón Sevilla · Tito Junco · Rodolfo Acosta · Ismael Pérez