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Interwoven stories of what it is to be a mom seen through the lens of photographer Rigby Gray.
A Pulitzer-winning writer grapples with being a widower and father after a mental breakdown, while, 27 years later, his grown daughter struggles to forge connections of her own.
Mothers And Daughters is a short film depicting the tensions between a mother, her unresponsive teenage daughter and her demanding elderly mother. It explores some of the pressures we put on our mothers: we expect them always to be a slave to their families, showing us nothing but love and affection, but we ask that they do it without complaint and then negate to show them gratitude.
A black comedy set in the contrasting worlds of a dilapidated North London council house, a middle-class dinner party in a Fulham mansion block, and an expensive therapist's couch. Drug-fuelled sex with a vicar and lustful longings for other women; are there some things a girl shouldn't share with her mother?
Nam-hee (Shim Hye-Jin) is going about selling fruit from her truck, when she nearly runs over a young gentleman, Joon (Lee Sang-Woo). Joon finds his way to Nam-hee's house, where he meets her mother Gan-nan (Kim Su-Mi), and her 20-year-old daughter Na-rae (Da-hee Lee). Through a series of circumstances, Joon comes to live with the three women, and with the introduction of a handsome man in their house, the three use their own skills to vie for his attention and compete for his affection.
Nina, a young actor, returns to the Ruhr region for her grandmother’s funeral. Tensions surface between her and her mother. The noises of a small town fill the eloquent silences in the complex mother-daughter relationships explored in this endearing film.
Sanae is left a widow after her prestigious husband dies, but holds the proceeds of a million yen insurance policy. Being childless, her former in-laws have no objection to her return to her own family.
A mother-daughter relationship, with its misunderstandings and long-simmering resentments, is explored with humor, insight and understanding.
Relationships between mothers and daughters are often very complex. Love and protective instincts, recognition and pride play just as important a role as patronization and envy, dependency and jealousy. This documentary allows prominent mother-daughter pairs to have their say, being surprisingly open about birth and puberty, growing up, sexuality and old age.
A movie about women who try to make a living by meeting men under conditions and men who just want to fulfill their sexual desires.
A single mother struggles to raise two teenage daughters in a small town in America.
Children of lesbian mothers talk frankly about their mothers' coming out, their own homophobia, and how they feel about being raised by lesbian mothers.
Yeon Ja, a working mother, runs a car center after divorce and is raising her daughter all by herself. Her daughter, Ah Jung, started helping her when she became an adult, however, the customers don't trust weak-looking women to touch machines and the business at the car center is slow. Thanks to Ah Jung's punk boyfriend, Sung Hoon, they came up with an idea to turn the car center into a sexy car center.
Sofia is an insecure teenage pianist, and next Sunday she will have the opportunity to perform a concert where talent scouts from her dream school will be. On Friday, Sofia's absent and authoritarian mother Anne arrives, with a surprise weekend trip to her grandmother Margot. The fate of the concert and the school place become uncertain.
An attention-craving mother nearing 50, unemployed and living with her pregnant daughter and son-in-law, suddenly finds herself with child, too...
She's sensitive because she's suffering from sexual excitement syndrome, which is sensitive to small stimuli. She has been receiving regular counseling and treatment from her psychiatrist, "Stabilizer," to cure her illness. But her illness, which can't be cured easily, causes her to be in a difficult situation, burning hot even when she's at work...
When her husband, who is much older than her, dies, Hyo-jeong, a young mother who ends up living with her one-year-older stepdaughter, Joo-ah, decides to find a male helper. Each one of them brought a male helper, but the mother and daughter were fighting over which of the two they should hire. Eventually, they decided to pick both of them. Hyo-jeong and Joo-ah enjoy a pleasant sex life with their male helpers who match each other's styles. However, mother and daughter get tired of it quickly.
There are more than 2,500 pensioners living in a large private retirement home located in a suburb of Canton (Guangzhou), China. As we discover the daily lives of these people, the film focuses on the lives of two elderly ladies: Ms. Kuang and Ms Xie. The documentary reveals how today's urban China can be reflected by the story of these two women, who find themselves away from their families, in a retirement home. Here, in the wake of serious health considerations, they have to build new relationships, define a new rhythm to their daily life and invent new ways to be with others.
Full Title: “The Adventures of a Mother and Her Daughters on their Quest for the Meaning of Life and Other Important Things.”