MOTHER'S BABY

By Johanna MODER

SWISS FILMS - as PROMO

Female director - Completed 2025

The family dream becomes a nightmare as 40-year-old Julia struggles to bond with her newborn child.

Festivals
& Awards

Berlinale - Berlin IFF 2025
Competition
    • Year of production
    • 2025
    • Genres
    • Female director, Thriller
    • Countries
    • AUSTRIA, SWITZERLAND, GERMANY
    • Languages
    • GERMAN
    • Duration
    • 108 mn
    • Director(s)
    • Johanna MODER
    • Synopsis
    • 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.