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.

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...

The planet’s busiest maternity hospital is located in one of its poorest and most populous countries...

Under the shade of a Magnolia tree, a group of pregnant women gathers weekly. Among them is Teresa, ...

Being mother is the most natural thing in the world. Or so it seems. Yet the demands on women with c...

Two drag queens living in a place where homophobia and transphobia are common open their hearts to t...

Given the fetishizing and normalizing character that is given to motherhood in patriarchy in order t...

When Fernanda and Andressa received the autism diagnoses of their sons, Rafael and Martin, they face...

Lola (40) enjoys a happy life until an unforeseen pregnancy throws her plans into disarray. Resistan...

Natalia is a 17-year-old mom living with her mother and son, Antos. She wanted to have a baby becaus...

She drove me into a corner, then forced me to go beyond my limits. She made me confront the absolute...

Saeko and Yukako live together in a small apartment complex in Tokyo. After the Tohoku earthquake in...

That Mothers Might Live is a 1938 American short drama film directed by Fred Zinnemann. The short is...