• Parental Control

    97 minutes |

It’s said that you’re never really “ready” for parenthood, and likewise, no child is truly prepared to lose a mother or father. These varied tales show how the unconditional love for their children can inspire parents’ courageous acts, and what can happen when the roles are reversed.

Short Films

By a Hair

Elodie spends her free time helping her father at his butcher shop even though her beauty school exam is a few days away and she desperately needs a model, a hairy one for the waxing portion, in the middle of summer.

Mami

Carolina is a young Latinx immigrant woman who lives with her mother and is her sole caretaker as she suffers from incapacitating depression. As Carolina deals with intense forces from outside and within, she’s driven to a shocking action that could lead to her freedom, but at a great cost.

Mother Of

This intense short plunges the viewer into the experience of the fiery, protective instincts and decisive, extreme actions of a mother driven to protect her daughter.

My Mother's Eyes

A story about motherhood and loss in an abstracted world of childhood memory.

The Name of the Son

Tina and Fred, a couple in their fifties, are desperate in their search for a boy's name. But for whom? And why?

Project Baby

Sebastian and Christian are on a couples’ date with potential mothers of a rainbow child. But it's not easy when most women are only after genetic material and not father figures. Prepare for an evening of prejudice, fish eggs and confusion.

Your Mother Is a Thief!

A stark and haunting animated film on the destructive and healing power of words.

film details

Running Time: 97 minutes

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