Audience Award, SXSW Film Festival Jury Prize: Best Documentary, California Independent Film Festival Jury Prize: Best Feature, Sebastopol Documentary Film Festival "Incredibly moving and inspiring. An Oscar contender for sure." —Jeffrey Lyons, KNBC "Motherland is the most…
MOTHERLOAD is a crowdsourced documentary about our cultural shift toward isolation and disconnection, what this means for the future of the planet, and how life on a cargo bike could be an antidote. Filmmaker Liz Canning cycled everywhere until she had twins in 2008. Hauling babies via car was not…
MOTHERLOAD is a crowdsourced documentary about our cultural shift toward isolation and disconnection, what this means for the future of the planet, and how life on a cargo bike could be an antidote. (NOTE TO PARENTS: Lots of kids LOVE this movie, but, a heads up-- there are a few brief images involving…
A woman decides to have a meaningful life after entering pension age. For 30 years Irmtraut Wäger headed German Aid To Tibetans and helped the Dalai Lama and the Tibetans in exile. She collected about 30 million Euros in donations and took care of over 5.000 Tibetan godchildren. Furthermore she…
How the pressure group started. It is difficult for a girl to bring up a child on her own. Although society is "permissive", when a child is born the mother is condemned by the same society. These young women are fighting for their rights and for those of their children, and some of their attitudes,…
Six mothers talk about their children's sleeping and crying patterns. Mothers express their views and talk about the experiences of sleeping and crying in young children. The main part of the video consists of interviews with six mothers, both single and married from different backgrounds. It…
ZHANG is the sterilization officer and a psychic for a fertility goddess. As a woman and one that has conflicting identities, she is caught between contradicting beliefs. She went as far as sterilizing her own daughter-in-law. However, as her life progresses, her ideas also change. How will she reconcile…
"Whatever you do unto the least of these, you do unto me." Mother Teresa always remembered these words of Jesus. She said that she saw the face of Jesus in the face of each sick and dying person she helped. She asked the whole world to look for Jesus' face there, too. Mother Teresa:…
Thecla Merlo was only 20 years old when she was introduced to the startling ideas of the energetic young priest, Father (now Blessed) James Alberione, in 1915. Together, they collaborated in a daring new venture: forming a group of women who would dedicate their lives to evangelizing through the media. Neither…
**EDUCATORS: please email orders@wmm.com for instructions for student access. A film by Kristy Guevara-Flanagan US | 2018 | 60 minutes | Color | English -- MOTHERTIME is a personal video diary that takes us on a corporeal journey in parenting via a small portable Go-Pro camera. Worn by both mother…
The secret history behind Nintendo's biggest cult classic, MOTHER, better known as EarthBound Beginnings. Learn how a prototype leaked out, was dumped online by teenage hackers in the late 90's, then released officially on the WiiU virtual console 25 years later as we talk to the employees…
Narrated by the artist. The text of Rafael Alberti's poetry cycle A La Pintura (To Painting) is the subject of Motherwell's venture into aquatints, produced at Tatyana Grosman's printmaking workshop. Alberti, the last member of the Garcia Lorca generation, is shown reading his poems…
