Motherhood

SYNOPSIS:

This is the story of a woman’s transformation. A woman who becomes a mother and, on becoming pregnant, knows nothing of the upheavals this birth will bring to her life. While motherhood is universal, the cliché of the first few months as sweet and peaceful lives on. We follow this woman from her pregnancy to her baby’s first months in this new role, as a mother. Unvarnished, with no taboos.

What could be more basic, more universal, more natural than giving birth? How wonderfully banal! This event is always depicted in its best light. The dream of a lifetime, of a woman, of a couple. The culmination. Simple happiness. So much for the official version. And then there’s the other. All that’s left unsaid so as not to ruin such a pretty picture: the abyss of pain, anxiety, helplessness, tears and dizziness that the arrival of a little being weighing around 3 kilos and demanding attention 24 hours a day can provoke. In this film, we follow a young woman as she becomes a mother for the first time. We’ll start filming the last months of her pregnancy, right up to her baby’s first months. She’ll be living on the edge of this post-partum period, hung over the void and still taboo in society, even if the word is gradually getting out.

INFO:

Theme: Human interest-social issues
Format: 52′
Original title: Motherhood
Director: Cécile Khindria et Armelle de Rocquiny
Streamer: France 3
Language: FR
Year of production: 2024
Produced by: Les beaux docs & ASLC