In Manhattan, a mother of two preparing for her daughter's sixth birthday party has no idea of the challenges she's about to face in order to pull off the event.

Commissioned by Channel 4 to celebrate Black History Month, the visually and emotionally striking film tells its story with interviews and voiceovers of various mothers; from embarking on motherhood in pregnancy all the way through to grandmothers; covering topics such as dismantling stereotypes, navigating motherhood and sitting down with a child to talk about race.

When pregnant Mia Sakaguchi falls from a staircase at the shrine, she is transferred to 1994 and immediately admitted to a mental institution, because no one believes her that she is from the future. There she is confronted with the shocking truth that the mentally ill are forcibly sterilized. In order to protect her unborn child, she tries to escape from the institution.

A devoted mother feels neglected by her three grown up children who prioritise work over spending time with her. It is after she falls seriously ill that she is forced to re-evaluate the meaning and importance of family.

Motherhood is a short documentary film about a single mother trying to secure a future for her severely disabled son.

Jack López is a nonbinary, transmasculine parent readying himself for top surgery. His four kids all support their "mummy" with humor and questions, but most importantly, with love.

Can someone become a mother without giving birth to a child? Twenty-nine-year-old filmmaker Santwana, who is not yet ready to become a mother, and forty-five-year-old doula Kata, who, though childless herself, helps many couples bring their children into the world, are searching for the answer to this question together. This highly intimate documentary empathetically introduces us to the most beautiful and vulnerable moments of life surrounding childbirth.

Sayaka, a high school student, kills herself but the reason behind her suicide is unknown. She appeared to have led a normal life with her family. Her mother Rumiko seemed to have raised Sayaka with love and care. In reality, that does not seem to be the case. When the mother and daughter recall the same incidents that took place in the past, they tell very different stories.

A group of drifting youngsters train to commit petty thefts. A certain André puts them on the trail of a real hold-up. They might carry it out if a suicide attempt didn't stop them. A young woman throws herself into the river. They save her, comfort her, learn that she's pregnant. They surround her with their friendship. When André reappears and seizes Lucienne to throw her on the pavement, everyone unites to save her, and the kind-hearted Maurice offers to be the baby's loving father.

At the age of 14, Carla is a wild and rebellious teenager. Living in a modest restaurant on the outskirts of a town with her young single mother, she skips school and passes the time with her friend Efraín. When a social worker realizes that Carla is five months pregnant, she is taken to ‘La Maternal’, a center for teenage mothers, to live with other young women like herself. Together with their babies, they will learn to cope with this new adult life for which they had no time to prepare.

The subject of a Roma settlement gains an almost metaphysical dimension as we watch a long, slow shot of a silent 15-year-old Roma mother.

Each year, many women give birth to a child alone. An act that they did not choose by themselves, the consequences of which they haven't fully realized. Marie-Ange Casta, actress and model, went to meet three of these young women, who face their first pregnancy alone. This is about the adventure of becoming a mother without a partner by your side or a father for your child.

The sins of the patriarch filter down to the next generation in Tso’s adaptation of Henrik Ibsen’s play, Ghosts. Eighteen years after he was sent overseas by his suffering mother (Wong), the son (Cheung) of an affluent household returns as a shadow of himself – both physically and spiritually – before unwittingly falling for his philandering father’s illegitimate daughter (Ha), conceived through the rape of a housemaid. No doubt ironically titled, Motherhood presents a restrained subversion of the Cantonese family melodrama tradition.

Suk-jing leads an ordinary life with her husband and in-laws in the New Territories. Having recently become a mother, she faces drastic changes in her life. Suk-jing single-handedly takes care of her baby day and night, while her husband never takes the initiative to share any parental duties. Exhausted, she is further battered by continuing conflicts with her in-laws and postpartum bodily changes. Losing her job at the bakery is the last straw. Feeling worn out and torn, she seeks an immediate solution.

Suk-jing leads an ordinary life with her husband and in-laws in the New Territories. Having recently become a mother, she faces drastic changes in her life. Suk-jing single-handedly takes care of her baby day and night, while her husband never takes the initiative to share any parental duties. Exhausted, she is further battered by continuing conflicts with her in-laws and postpartum bodily changes. Losing her job at the bakery is the last straw. Feeling worn out and torn, she seeks an immediate solution.

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.

Marriage and the challenges of motherhood prove too much for ex-factory worker Mary. Will she follow the sound advice of the health visitor - played by famous actress Dorothea Baird, who also conceived and wrote the film - and improve her ‘mothercraft’ skills, or will she continue to take solace in alcohol, as prescribed by her wayward neighbour?

Shows the trials and tribulations that dominant women face in their personal journeys of being a mother in today’s society. We discuss motherhood, gun violence, child abuse, and our meaning of Dominance.