Motherhood

Produced by

Les Beaux Docs, ASLC

Production year2024

Programme formatOne-off

GenresDocumentary

Runtime 52 min

Synopsis

This is the story of a woman’s transformation. A woman who becomes a mother and, upon becoming pregnant, is unaware of the upheavals this birth will bring. While motherhood is universal, the cliché of peaceful first months persists. We follow her from pregnancy through her baby’s early months. Unvarnished, without taboos. Giving birth 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.