Parenthood Movies

Children’s birthday parties are most parents' worst nightmare. While the kids play frantically and raise their blood sugar levels, the adults...

A dedicated mother fights against the stubborn administrative system to get her son the services he needs.

The 43rd edition screens Neighbors, with five segments about the theme “neighbors”: not only about physical proximity, but also about...

A short documentary that follows Korean grandparents as they share their modern-day reckoning of their immigration story and grandparenthood.

This film tells a story of ethnic Koreans from Russia and the post-Soviet territories making their new home in New York City. The history of the...

The director's grandfather is a blind fortune teller and his father a real-estate owner. They have grievances against each other for dismantling the...

A single mother struggles with the futility of her relationship with her special needs son as her patience grows thin.

A film about Princesse, a 9-year-old Cameroonian, and her father, who leaves Africa to make their dreams come true. The two keep in touch through...

Filmmaker Martin Bell chronicles the life of Erin Blackwell, mother of 10 children, from the time she was a 14-year-old prostitute through her battle...

After a night of boozing, Ceren told her husband, Ali, that she has stopped taking the pill and wants a child, but Ali has a hidden secret from his...

At the crossroads of documentary and narrative fiction, Another tomorrow offers a window into the daily life of a single mother and her child through...

The cycle of life. A boy whose father is a pilot imagines that his toy plane becomes the real thing, allowing him to fly side-by-side through the...

"Sugar" is an elegiac short film directed by filmmaker, Michael Patti. Michael sought to tell a story of grief, patience, the overwhelming aspects of...

The film is a personal statement of the director and his wife, who have to deal with a very rare and incurable disease of their newborn child –...

In Unborn we follow the internal monologue of a hybrid pigeon-persona who questions her inevitable cursed fate of parenthood. As a pigeon, she is...

Documentary following the life of a young woman living with motor neurone disease (MND) as she takes on motherhood and plans her marriage to the man...

A young father-to-be struggles to overcome his grief and fear of becoming a father and specifically his father.

In this spellbinding hand-drawn odyssey by the celebrated Oscar-winning animator Torill Kove, a bustling urban habitat becomes an enchanting web of...

Her and Him live together and love each other. Him wants to have kids and Her is not so sure. Everything changes when Him believes Her is pregnant....