40-year-old Julia, a successful conductor, and her partner Georg are longing for a child when Dr. Vilfort offers them hope. Julia becomes pregnant after successful treatment at the fertility doctor’s clinic.
The birth does not go as planned and the baby is immediately taken away, leaving Julia in the dark about what has happened. When finally reunited with the child, Julia feels strangely distant. She begins to doubt whether it is really her child.
""Mother's Baby"" had its world premiere of the Berlin International Film Festival, in Competition.
""""Mother's Baby"" is a very personal film for me. It's a kind of reckoning, although I'm not sure with whom or what. The promised happiness does not materialise with the birth of the child. Rather: it is the beginning of a bad dream. Nothing is as it was. And what was, inexorably melts away and can no longer be held on to."" - Johanna Moder, Film Director
Genre
Drama, BNFF
Run time
1h 48min
40-year-old Julia, a successful conductor, and her partner Georg are longing for a child when Dr. Vilfort offers them hope. Julia becomes pregnant after successful treatment at the fertility doctor’s clinic.
The birth does not go as planned and the baby is immediately taken away, leaving Julia in the dark about what has happened. When finally reunited with the child, Julia feels strangely distant. She begins to doubt whether it is really her child.
""Mother's Baby"" had its world premiere of the Berlin International Film Festival, in Competition.
""""Mother's Baby"" is a very personal film for me. It's a kind of reckoning, although I'm not sure with whom or what. The promised happiness does not materialise with the birth of the child. Rather: it is the beginning of a bad dream. Nothing is as it was. And what was, inexorably melts away and can no longer be held on to."" - Johanna Moder, Film Director
Info
Production year
2025
Global distributor
PÖFF
Local distributor
PÖFF
In Cinemas
11/15/2025