29th Tallinn Black Nights Film Festival (07.11-23.11.2025)
A woman navigates the complex journey of motherhood while confronting her deepest fears and anxieties.
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 in the competition programme at the Berlin International Film Festival.
“‘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
29th Tallinn Black Nights Film Festival (07.11-23.11.2025)
A woman navigates the complex journey of motherhood while confronting her deepest fears and anxieties. 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 in the competition programme at the Berlin International Film Festival.
“‘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
A woman navigates the complex journey of motherhood while confronting her deepest fears and anxieties. 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 in the competition programme at the Berlin International Film Festival.
“‘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
Rating
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Production year
2025
Global distributor
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Local distributor
Pimedate Ööde Filmifestival MTÜ
In cinema
11/7/2025