Eu deveria estar feliz (2023)

Cédric é suspenso do trabalho depois de viralizar por beijar bêbado uma repórter. Preso em casa com sua esposa exausta e seu bebê, Cédric embarca em uma viagem terapêutica para se libertar da misoginia. É quando Amy entra em cena: uma babá misteriosa que virará suas vidas de cabeça para baixo.

Set in a small, typical Belarusian village – granny Sima’s only concern is for the future of her alcoholic son, Vanya. Accompanied by her best friend, a white goat called Manya, she starts a war with her neighbor, Glasha, who happens to be the village Vodka maker…

“De Peito Aberto”, de Graziela Mantoanelli, acompanha seis mulheres de diferentes classes sociais durante os 180 primeiros dias de vida de seus bebês – período recomendado pela Organização Mundial da Saúde (OMS) para amamentação exclusiva.

In a North Dublin housing estate Char's mother goes missing. When she returns Char is determined to uncover the truth of her disappearance and unearth the dark secrets of her family.

Ao abordar o processo de redesignação sexual, a obra mistura dados e vivências, com foco na relação familiar e nas nuances do feminino.

This psychological horror thriller tells the story of Penelope, a new mother who does not sleep. Tracked down by the thief of a convenience store whose mischief she witnessed, she finds refuge in an unhealthy affair with an ex-lover, leaving behind her son and her partner at the same time. But wherever she goes, she is haunted by the memory of her little sister who died in horrific circumstances... Gnawed by guilt, Penelope sinks into postpartum psychosis. Little by little, we no longer fear for Penelope, but for Penelope and what she is becoming: a threat to her child.

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.

Jeanne take her daughter for the week-end in Majorque. While everything goes to rack and ruin, mother’s only concern is to photograph Kiki, the classroom mascot.

That Mothers Might Live is a 1938 American short drama film directed by Fred Zinnemann. The short is a brief account of Hungarian physician Ignaz Semmelweis and his discovery of the need for cleanliness in 19th-century maternity wards, thereby significantly decreasing maternal mortality, and of his struggle to gain acceptance of his idea. Although Semmelweis ultimately failed in his lifetime, later scientific luminaries advanced his work in spirit like microbiologist Louis Pasteur, who provided a scientific theoretical explanation of Semmelweis' observations by helping develop the germ theory of disease and the British surgeon, Dr. Joseph Lister who revolutionized medicine putting Pasteur's research to practical use. In 1939, at the 11th Academy Awards, the film won an Oscar for Best Short Subject (One-Reel).

Given the fetishizing and normalizing character that is given to motherhood in patriarchy in order to perpetuate the social order, do we truly choose to be mothers? Why is care, of fundamental vital labor, presupposed as an especially appropriate task for women?

Helena, a woman in her early 40's, is obsessed with getting pregnant. After failing her last try, her neighbors get back from the hospital with their new born baby. Helena breaks in to their house when they´re gone, steals the baby monitor and starts listening to what happens next door.

A jovem Natalia (Magdalena Berus) sempre sonhou em ser mãe. Com 17 anos ela realiza seu sonho, mas logo percebe que ocorreu muito cedo: sua vida se torna uma luta incessante. O amigo skatista Kuba (Nikodem Rozbicki) tenta agir como pai, mas acaba levando corriqueiramente festas e confusões para seu apartamento.

Illa de Arousa, 1971. Maria is a woman who earns her living by seafood. She is also known on the island for helping other women in childbirth with special dedication and care. After an unexpected event, she is forced to flee and begins a dangerous journey that will make her fight for her survival. Seeking her freedom, Maria decides to cross the border by one of the smuggling routes between Galicia and Portugal.

In parallel stories, a social butterfly and a lower middle-class wife brace themselves for the challenge of birthing a child in the modern era.

Rebecca e Julian esperam seu primeiro filho cheios de alegria. Quando Rebecca dá a luz a um menino saudável, tudo parece perfeito. Mas, ao invés do amor incondicional que esperava, só desamparo e desespero. Seu próprio bebê é um estranho para ela. Rebecca não sente crescer a maternidade. Mas, além de si mesma, ninguém parece perceber. Ela não pode confiar em ninguém, nem mesmo Julian. O que fazer com um problema tão grave, sobre sentimentos que não se pode ter? A vida de Rebecca deteriora-se até ela temer ser uma ameaça ao seu próprio filho.

Marlo (Charlize Theron), mãe de três filhos, sendo um deles um recém-nascido, vive uma vida muito atarefada, e, certo dia, ganha de presente de seu irmão uma babá para cuidar das crianças durante a noite. Antes um pouco hesitante, Marlo acaba se surpreendendo com Tully (Mackenzie Davis).

When Luisa, 45, returns from a psychiatric clinic after a bout with severe postpartum depression, she enters a new confinement in her dazzling home, surrounded by family members and a brigade of servants who expect her struggles to remain invisible. Unable to continue playing the role of the perfect housewife, Luisa's only escape is to waltz elegantly into madness.

Claire (Catherine Frot) exerce sua profissão de parteira com muita paixão. Ela é conhecida por ser uma mulher séria e prudente, além de bastante solitária. Sua vida se transforma com a aparição inesperada de Béatrice (Catherine Deneuve), uma antiga amante de seu pai, em busca de ajuda para problemas pessoais. Claire hesita em ajudá-la a princípio, mas logo apoia a mulher extravagante, e descobre um modo de vida muito diferente do seu.

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?

The planet’s busiest maternity hospital is located in one of its poorest and most populous countries: the Philippines. There, poor women face devastating consequences as their country struggles with reproductive health policy and the politics of conservative Catholic ideologies.