Mother Movies

An exploration of entering and leaving consciousness from the perspective of non-human bodies trapped in everlasting cycles of abuse.

Based on true events, Hold Me Down depicts a day in the life of a 19-year-old single mother in the Bronx who works as a stripper at an illegal nightcl...

Sci-Fi Horror has led us into the depths of fear and back again, from the mundane to the fantastical. It's the fear of the unknown, the fear of the de...

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

Have you ever been in a fight? Even thrown a punch? Because Andrew never has. His mom raised him as a pacifist, and she would like to keep it that way...

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...

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

The filmmaker's mother describes stories of his lustful youth over the phone, causing them to reflect on his current love life at the age of 30.

The film follows the life of a large family over three decades and generations. The rising saga of a formerly homeless family survived since the mid-s...

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 h...

A young girl heads out for a night of fun but just before she leaves, her mom tells her to "put your coat on".

A single mother struggles with the futility of her relationship with her special needs son as her patience grows thin.

Jimmy learns to appreciate his parents when a hand puppet dressed as a jester visits him up in the middle of the night and renders him invisible.

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, Thailand...

Filmmaker Diego Gutiérrez knows that he is soon to lose two loved ones: his mother Gina Coppe and his best friend Danniel Danniel. Both ask him to fil...

Después del invierno (After the Winter) is a modern fable. We discover through three characters in extreme situations the human ability to succeed in...

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 world in 2...

Documentary filmmaker Rebecka Rasmusson becomes pregnant with the man she believes to love, when it turns out that he also has another woman. One even...