Mother Movies

A mother and son are forced to confront a strained relationship and begin the slow journey of healing while searching for their missing dog.

A short film depicting the universality of life, growth, and how beautiful life is to simply exist. The film shows how beautiful it can be when we...

A dinner goes horribly wrong.

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

Follows a cleaning lady going through an overnight shift at an airport. Her actions throughout may seem selfish and heartless but they all become...

Tatiana faces an economic crisis that has forced her to be temporarily away from her kids, her "gang", as she calls them. By writing out her feelings...

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

ICE conducted the largest immigration raids in US history at slaughterhouses in 2019, arresting and deporting undocumented workers. Despite the...

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...

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 crafty child who wants to see his mother again after her death, finds a way to do it.

Ninlawan Pinyo is the matriarch of a Thai American family, who hustled for her fortune by founding a naem pork sausage factory in Chiang Mai,...

Delphyne (meaning ‘womb’) discusses the stigma around menstruation. Addressing shame and acceptance, taboos around menstrual blood are...

Ima's biggest wish is to bear a child. Her husband Erik on the other hand seems to be objecting to this idea. With each passing day Ima's struggle...

A young boy struggles with the loss of his mother.

The stories of a group of Latina migrant mothers whose kids have been taken away by an unfair system in Italy.

Stuck in a decollate life and a dead marriage a father goes to any lengths to continue to dream a life for his daughter and himself