Lengua de diamante submerges into the past, present, and future life of Elsa Riveros, Colombia’s First Lady of Rock. Long after her iconic career as a fierce 80s rock singer, Elsa now seeks to reinvent herself as a political painter in northern Virginia, where she raises her son.
A family’s difficult but endearing journey that re-defines motherhood: is it through nature or nurture? Yasmine is a young woman forced to raise her 3 younger siblings after being struck with life’s difficult circumstances. Trying to provide for their stability, she begins working random part time jobs to make quick and easy money and is constantly trying to balance between her personal life and work life. This family’s journey is difficult, but it is surely heartwarming. Throughout the film, we discover why Yasmine has to be responsible for her siblings despite her age.
Wife, Mother, Arab, British, Muslim...Esther is on a mission to show you what life is like when you can't meet the expectations of your identity. From battling ridiculous comments online to facing head-on confrontations in person, in this assured and witty debut Esther asks what happens if you decide to reject the role of the Crusader.
A filmmaker captures her wife’s journey of high-risk pregnancy, birth, and early motherhood in this short documentary. Consequently, she discovers her own fear and insecurity surrounding the adventures of parenthood — all while completing the adoption process for her non-biological son, as required by heteronormative North Carolina state law.
Forced to become a mother, Helena plans to run away with her boyfriend and abandon her son. However, on the day of the escape, the boy gives up and leaves her alone, desolate. Determined to keep on the run, Helena embarks on her theory that her entire life has been a lie and she has never had a child.
A tragic portrait of mother and child exploring grief through music and lyrical imagery.
A mother discovers that her son has a disability that causes her breast milk to intoxicate him. But the discovery comes too late to prevent the loss of neurons.
Alex is afraid that his mother wants to runaway with the neighbor, while spending the day with his father, he started having conversations with his imaginary friend.
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 and covering her wall with pictures of the kids, Tatiana opens her heart from the loneliness of a rented room in Bogotá. While she attempts with determination to let her kids know that, despite the circumstances, she is still there for them.
Documentary essay based on portraits of five women, their different ways of living motherhood, challenges and particularities.
A Mother struggles to bond with her baby.
Over the course of one night, Juanita, a teacher battling depression teams up with her delinquent student to retrieve something important for her. Will they find solace in each other?
An animated inner monologue of a woman confronting her relationship with her son, who has a disability.
A look at the trials and tribulations of school and childhood.
Merche rents his only son's room to Günther, a german youngster. She'll start to see him as a possibility to refill some empty spaces in her life.
The final months of pregnancy and the first ones after the birth of a baby are unique experiences in a woman's life. And when this daily life is lived inside a prison?
Artist Kate Blackmore looks at motherhood and mobility, film and feminism through the prism of Margaret Dodd's 1982 classic short film 'This Woman is not a Car.'