(M)Other (2019)
• November 21st, 2019 • 1h 28min
Documentary
Overview
Being mother is the most natural thing in the world. Or so it seems. Yet the demands on women with children have rarely been as overloaded and contradictory as they are in today’s Western world. Promises of happiness are often followed by disadvantages, excessive demands and feelings of guilt. The mother has become an artificially glorified ideal, which nevertheless is often legitimized by the „nature of the woman“. We live in a time when three people could claim to be the same child’s mother: egg donors give their genes to beget children, surrogate mothers deliver babies which they give away immediately after birth, and men raise children by themselves – without a woman at their side. Hence the question arises: What makes a human being a real mother?
Make sure to check your pop-up blocker!!
Trailer
Similar Movies
Sieben Mulden und eine Leiche
Released on: 2007-04-05
Documentary
Thomas Haemmerli is about to celebrate his fortieth birthday when he learns of his mother's death. A...
Memory Books
Released on: 2008-05-01
Documentary
In Uganda, AIDS-infected mothers have begun writing what they call Memory Books for their children. ...
Manhattan, Kansas
Released on: 2006-03-10
Documentary
Filmmaker Evie Wray travels to rural Kansas in an attempt to reconnect with her mentally unstable mo...
Familiar Phantoms
Released on: 2024-03-13
Drama, Documentary, History
Familiar Phantoms is an experimental documentary short film about memory, history and trauma.
The Story of a Slough
Released on: 2024-05-25
Documentary, Family, History
When the Tanana River bridge was installed in Salcha, Alaska, the community worried about the levee'...
Ofelia
Released on: 2024-06-27
Documentary, Drama
At 88 years old, Ofelia reflects on her life under the attentive gaze of her grandchildren. Family, ...
Émergence
Released on: 2018-05-17
Documentary
Katiana talks about her experiences as a woman in Haiti. As a woman, she faces many limitations and ...
Circus
Released on: 2022-01-14
Documentary
We all carry hell with us. The filmmaker’s hell exists on a canvas, which he studied carefully in ch...
2 or 3 Things I Know About Him
Released on: 2005-04-07
Documentary, Drama
What would your family reminiscences about dad sound like if he had been an early supporter of Hitle...
Only in Theaters
Released on: 2022-11-18
Documentary
ONLY IN THEATERS, a film by actor/director Raphael Sbarge, is an intimate and moving journey taken w...
The Story of the Weeping Camel
Released on: 2003-06-29
Documentary, Drama
When a Mongolian nomadic family's newest camel colt is rejected by its mother, a musician is needed ...
The Tattooed Police Horse
Released on: 1964-04-16
Adventure, Documentary
Barred from racing for breaking stride, a trotting horse finds a new career as a police officer's mo...
Motherland
Released on: 2017-01-21
Documentary
The planet’s busiest maternity hospital is located in one of its poorest and most populous countries...
I Am Gay
Released on: 2020-10-13
Documentary, Family
After working abroad for five years, filmmaker Ajahnis Charley returns home to Oshawa, Ontario, in t...
Not Without My Dogs
Released on: 2013-10-14
Documentary
Out of love for Huskies, nature and cold winters Dave and Kristen Olesen moved from Minnesota to the...
Whitney: Can I Be Me
Released on: 2017-01-01
Music, Documentary
The life and tragic death of Whitney Houston.
School of Hope
Released on: 2020-12-31
Documentary
In the vast expanse of desert East of Atlas Mountains in Morocco, seasonal rain and snow once suppor...
A Powerful Passion
Released on: 2023-09-26
Documentary
A journey through a century of Ambrosoli family history.
We still kick each other under the table
Released on:
Documentary, Family
What it is like to have a younger sibling