Mothering

Turtles Can Fly tells the story of a group of young children near the Turkey-Iraq border. They clean up mines and wait for the Saddam regime to fall.

Christine is isolated at home with her newborn baby. New in the role as a mom, Christine feels the guilt from society of not connecting with her...

In a snowy Kurdish mountain village, in the east of Turkey, an old woman Berfé and her granddaughter Jiyan are distressed. The only man in the...

Mar del Plata, 1985. Pregnant and working as a sex worker, Margarita Di Tullio defies the mafia and a corrupt power structure to build a clandestine...

Fleeing the war, the immortal Maquia, graced with eternal youth, finds a baby abandoned in the forest and decides to raise it as her own child,...

Three separate stories – a mother, her teenage daughter, and a police officer – converge thanks to one event: the titular incident,...

The Aurora Borealis is a story of family that is rich in twists and turns. It breaks the depths of the relationship between mother and daughter. A...

Rosa and Maria are mother and daughter who have a troubled relationship. Despite not showing affection, Rosa makes courageous decisions to ensure...

Rojda, a native of Iraqi Kurdistan and a soldier in the German army, travels to a refugee camp in Greece where she manages to meet her mother, who...

Three generations of women share a home — cooking, waiting, and persisting—until a pregnancy quietly shifts the balance, exposing the...

Sanda spends all her time working in a plastic factory, raising her two small children and catering to an indifferent husband, leaving little room...

Polly Parrish, a clerk at Merlin's Department Store, is mistakenly presumed to be the mother of a foundling. Outraged at Polly's unmotherly conduct,...