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THEME EXPLORATION

motherhood and loss

12 films · 3 directors

Tracing the thread…

FILMS THAT EXPLORE THIS
Rosemary's Baby
Rosemary's Baby
1968 · Roman Polanski
No Good Men
No Good Men
2026 · Shahrbanoo Sadat
Wolf Children
Wolf Children
2012 · Mamoru Hosoda
Le Refuge (Hideaway
Le Refuge (Hideaway
2009 · François Ozon
Mommy
Mommy
2014 · Xavier Dolan
Still/Born
Still/Born
2018 · Brandon Christensen
Dollhouse
Dollhouse
2025 · Shinobu Yaguchi
The Woman in the Yard
The Woman in the Yard
2025 · Jaume Collet-Serra
Solaris
Solaris
1972 · Andrei Tarkovsky
Wild Strawberries
Wild Strawberries
1957 · Ingmar Bergman
Babel
Babel
2006 · Alejandro González Iñárritu
A Woman Is a Woman
A Woman Is a Woman
1961 · Jean-Luc Godard
DIRECTORS WHO EXPLORE THIS
Lynne Ramsay → Scotland

Her films like 'You Were Never Really Here' and 'A Woman Expects' explore maternal grief, psychological trauma, and the fractured bond between mothers and children with haunting visual poetry.

Hirokazu Kore-eda → Japan

His masterworks 'Still Walking' and 'Like Father, Like Son' intimately examine how loss reshapes families and how mothers navigate grief, absence, and the burden of memory.

Agnès Varda → France

Her semi-autobiographical films 'Vagabond' and 'The Gleaners and I' tenderly explore maternal absence, social displacement, and how women reckon with life's losses and isolation.

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