Young Mothers

The Dardenne Brothers, among cinema's most significant humanist directors, turn their focus to five young women living in a mother and child home in Belgium. How will these women, who became mothers while practically still children themselves, manage to overcome the shadow of their pasts and offer a better future to their babies? While Jessica searches for the biological mother who abandoned her, Perla is shaken as her boyfriend shatters her dreams, Julie struggles with addiction, and Ariane, fearing a repeat of her own mother's mistakes, considers putting her baby up for adoption . Winner of the Best Screenplay award at Cannes and selected as Belgium's Oscar entry , this poignant film portrays their fragility, their struggles, and the hope they nurture despite all odds with an understated yet powerful realism . In this story where confronting the past is as difficult as caring for an infant, you will witness the portrait of five brave women trying to break the most vicious cycles of life.