73 minutes of raw, unfiltered motherhood that'll make you call your mom.
Women reflect on their first year of motherhood and the many joys and challenges it brings – for parent and baby. A gentle, curious and informative conversational documentary about postpartum life, of sublime analogue beauty.
Cinematography
Analogue grain that makes exhaustion look like art.
Direction
Ahnelt's patient eye finds beauty in mess.
Director
Josephine Ahnelt
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Part of a growing wave of 'messy motherhood' docs rejecting Instagram-perfect parenting.
Ahnelt shot on 16mm film specifically because its unpredictability mirrors the chaos of early motherhood — planned perfection is literally impossible.
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