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...
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...
As a letter to her son, the filmmaker testifies her experience as a photographer aboard the Aquarius...
Given the fetishizing and normalizing character that is given to motherhood in patriarchy in order t...
"On the Tip of the Heart" - is a documentary on the St Peter's Hospital in Brussels, structured arou...
It is 1968 and Marianne is nineteen years old. She has been sent to a home for young girls, far from...
Claire is a midwife and has devoted her life to others. At a moment when she is preoccupied by the i...
Jeanne take her daughter for the week-end in Majorque. While everything goes to rack and ruin, mothe...
Illa de Arousa, 1971. Maria is a woman who earns her living by seafood. She is also known on the isl...
Natalia is a 17-year-old mom living with her mother and son, Antos. She wanted to have a baby becaus...
After giving birth to her first child at age 20, Mona Achache had the idea to make a film on childbi...
Alba, a young woman, lives with her boyfriend in a small apartment. One morning she receives terribl...