This student film by the award-winning Helena Třeštíková bears many of the hallmarks of her later work. Made as a graduation piece when she was at the FAMU Film and TV Academy in Prague, we see the director developing the distinctive observational style of filmmaking that she has used so effectively throughout her career. Over the course of several months, she follows a young pregnant woman as she becomes slowly acquainted with the joys and responsibilities of motherhood.
The planet’s busiest maternity hospital is located in one of its poorest and most populous countries...
Being mother is the most natural thing in the world. Or so it seems. Yet the demands on women with c...
As a letter to her son, the filmmaker testifies her experience as a photographer aboard the Aquarius...
"On the Tip of the Heart" - is a documentary on the St Peter's Hospital in Brussels, structured arou...
Given the fetishizing and normalizing character that is given to motherhood in patriarchy in order t...
Under the shade of a Magnolia tree, a group of pregnant women gathers weekly. Among them is Teresa, ...
Claire is a midwife and has devoted her life to others. At a moment when she is preoccupied by the i...
It is 1968 and Marianne is nineteen years old. She has been sent to a home for young girls, far from...
Illa de Arousa, 1971. Maria is a woman who earns her living by seafood. She is also known on the isl...
After giving birth to her first child at age 20, Mona Achache had the idea to make a film on childbi...
Natalia is a 17-year-old mom living with her mother and son, Antos. She wanted to have a baby becaus...
Set in a small, typical Belarusian village – granny Sima’s only concern is for the future of her alc...
She drove me into a corner, then forced me to go beyond my limits. She made me confront the absolute...
Lola (40) enjoys a happy life until an unforeseen pregnancy throws her plans into disarray. Resistan...