Karen est tombée enceinte à l’âge de quatorze ans, à l’époque, elle n’avait d’autre choix que d’abandonner cet enfant. C’était il y a trente‐cinq ans… Aujourd’hui, Elizabeth, sa fille, est une brillante avocate. Elle n’a jamais tenté de retrouver la trace de sa mère biologique jusqu’au jour où elle tombe enceinte. De son côté, Lucy voit enfin son rêve d’adopter un enfant se réaliser. Confrontées simultanément à d’importants choix de vie, ces trois femmes verront leurs destins se croiser de manière inattendue..
Deep in the forest, a hunter encounters a strange creature he cannot kill..
This film follows a young couple from the time they suspect pregnancy to their child's first birthday. The value of good prenatal habits and medical care is emphasized. Good tips are also provided on day-to-day baby care..
Second of a triptych of shorts using, reusing, misusing unused and behind-the-scenes footage from Félicité..
As Germany's fortunes in the latter part of World War II wane, several young boys, in their enthusiasm to do something "for the fatherland", volunteer to fight with the German army in the East. Horrified at the news that their children left for the Russian front, the boys' mothers begin a desperate effort to get their sons back..
Consul Petersen and his wife are desperate, because they lost their only child and can’t have another. At the same time, the maid Anna is expecting a child, whose father, Jurgen, works in a sawmill. When both of them lose their jobs, they fear they won’t be able to feed the newborn. Thus, they strike a deal with the Petersens, which works for both couples: Anna and Jurgen will receive a farm from the Petersens, free and clear; and the two will allow the Petersens to adopt the child. Anna and Jurgen marry and are quite happy; but when the child is finally born, Anna doesn’t wish to surrender him and flees with the child into the Wattenmeer..
The movie follows a young woman (Kinuyo Tanaka), a daughter of a high-ranking businessman and his neglected mistress, as she struggles to ease her mother's loneliness, while also having an affair with her father's subordinate..
One peaceful and quiet summer day, the actress's cat disappears from the pension, and the owner of the pension and her son Seong Jong struggled to find the missing cat. It is a pension where the last energy of autumn passes. Comedian Sang Hoon, who comes there remembers the trip he took with his mother, and is burdened by the people who ask him to be funny wherever he goes. By the end of his last trip with his mother who can no longer be with him, Sang Hoon finally laughed. A man whose ID is 'mother' and a woman whose ID is 'son' meet in a quiet winter's pension to spend the end of their lives together. A woman who doesn't seem to want to die makes men confused, and their last day has an unexpected development....
During the Thirty Years' War, the camp-follower Anna Fierling, called "Mother Courage", travels the length and breadth of Europe with her covered wagon. She does not care if it's Catholics or Protestants she trades with as long as business thrives. She loses her three children as a result of the war: bold and spirited Eilif, sincere and upright Swiss Cheese and mute Katrin, who saves the children of Halle by beating a drum on a farmstead roof In wartime, the Fierling children's virtues prove to be deadly. Yet, Mother Courage, remains incorrigible. She will not have anyone "spoil the war" for her and so sets out once more after the soldiers with her wagon..
A recording of the 1939 play "Mother Courage and Her Children" for German TV..
In shades of gray, the calm, static shots show young female visitors to a public hospital in Argentina. This is the place where teenage girls have to make a decision about the new life growing inside them. A few of them have, at a very young age indeed, already had children. For others, the idea of a future as a mother is new and terrifying. In many cases, though, having an abortion isn’t a decision to be taken for granted. Some of the girls have learned from childhood that getting pregnant is your own fault, and you have to accept the consequences. What they know about abortion comes from horror stories of clandestine practices in backstreet clinics. The hospital gynecologists and other staff, who can be heard but not seen, ask the girls about their well-being, their relationship, their family ties, and how they see the future—with or without a child. In these intimate and non-judgmental conversations, the girls respond with powerful candor in their most vulnerable moments..
The parents lie on the couch and drink wine when their son comes in and tells about a nightmare..
While working in an education center for lonely children, a mother seeks her missing son..
Nadija, a twenty-year old hairdresser, meets Njegos, a member of the car-stealing ring, is visiting her aunt Spasa, a bar owner. This short encounter prompts Nadija to think about her family situation, leaving her a desire to change life..
This profile of homeless young people in St. Petersburg, Russia, uses subtitles and narration to tell their tales, many of which focus on drugs, neglect and abuse..
