Motherland
In an alternate present society where the state frees parents from the burden of raising children, a rule enforcer learns a shocking truth that sparks her rebellion.
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In an alternate present society where the state frees parents from the burden of raising children, a rule enforcer learns a shocking truth that sparks her rebellion.
Leah, a Korean adoptee raised in America, returns to Korea to search for her birth mother. Leah is met with secrecy from the adoption agency as well as her own family but remains relentless on her solo journey, driven by
When a young man from Mali pays an unexpected late night visit to a Bookshop owner in England who used to live in his country, the aftermath of the violent military upheaval and Sharia Law come back to haunt them both.
After a long absence abroad, young Asian American woman Raffi Tang is called home when her estranged mother is murdered. She becomes increasingly drawn into a web of deception and incompetence while at the same time deal
Svetlana has lost her son who was found dead while he was in the army. As she tries to shed light on the culture of violence and abuse in the Belarusian military, a group of young friends from the techno underground soon
Fusing history, culture, politics, and contemporary issues, Motherland sweeps across Africa to tell a new story of a dynamic continent. From the glory and majesty of Africa's past through its complex history. Africa as y
Six American mothers, each grieving the death of a child, journey to South Africa to volunteer with impoverished children. The strength of the people they meet and the reality of the poverty they witness deeply affects t
'Soldier poses as dead captain to comfort blind mother while girl poses as dead Jew's wife to comfort family.' (British Film Catalogue)
Ellen Evans' contribution to the short film anthology The Uncertain Kingdom (2020). Jamaican-born Brits who have been forcibly returned to their "home country" by the UK government describe their experiences.
In a totalitarian propaganda world ruled from above, a girl can be all it takes to spark off a revolution and challenge the MOTHERLAND.
When a Chinese mother visits her son in Manhattan to celebrate news of his engagement, she’s taken aback to discover that her son is actually planning to marry another man. As she watches the couple prepare to come out t
In a post-apocalyptic future, a migrant latinx man is on life support from the last plant on Earth. With only memories of his mother to guide him, he must find a way to preserve life on Earth.
Motherland is a documentary about the women who shake tradition to rid their country of landmines leftover from a devastating ethnic war. Individually outcast; together, a collective - the deminers support each other as
The Nagorno-Karabakh Republic is falling. In the deserted mountain village, you can hear gunfire, explosions and see dark smoke. Almost all the inhabitants have already fled. Only Aram remains. He is trying to save his d
Atoqcha travels between his home in the mountains where his mother lives and the city of Cusco, looking for a place to live and work, seeking a future as a civil engineering student. Along his journey, he will find a fri
A small suburban family consists of A stepdad, his depressed son, his furious older brother, and their ill mother. Secrets. Lies. Suspicion. Betrayal. The story of this family will be unfolded in this movie motherland.
Following the 2020 unprovoked genocidal attack against Artsakh (Nagorno-Karabakh) Armenians by Azerbaijan and Turkey that killed 5,000 Armenians, journalist and activist Vic Gerami travels to Armenia to document his rava
A rapper tries every possible way to communicate with his dead mother and encounters immortal characters.
Afghani-American filmmaker Sedika Mojadidi shadows her father, a women's health specialist working to rebuild hospitals in war-torn Afghanistan, in this thought-provoking documentary filmed in the wake of the United Stat
Motherland is the story of two Latvian grandmothers who have lived in Australia (since the end of WWII), and although never knowing each other in their native Latvia, have become close friends since arriving in Australia