Motherland: Tales of Wonder (1994)

Directed by

Helene Klodawsky

Genre

documentary film

Country

Canada

Runtime

1h 30m

Rating

7.0 of 10 from 1 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

This documentary interviews women of different generations about their experiences and pressures of motherhood. The film contrasts the perspectives of older women whose children are grown with younger women still raising kids.

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What happens

Motherland: Tales of Wonder is a Canadian documentary film, directed by Helene Klodawsky and released in 1994. The film centres on interviews with a variety of women, both older women whose children are now adults and younger women who were still raising young kids at the time the film was made, about the social and cultural pressures attached to motherhood. The film received a Genie Award nomination for Best Feature Length Documentary at the 16th Genie Awards in 1996. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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