

Jeunes mères
“Breaking the cycle begins with them.”
In a mother and child home in Liège, Belgium, five women who became mothers at a very young age live together . Jessica (Babette Verbeek), weeks away from giving birth, struggles to bond with her baby while trying to find the biological mother who gave her up for adoption . Perla (Lucie Laruelle) awaits her boyfriend Robin's release from juvenile detention, dreaming of a happy future for her small family . Julie (Elsa Houben), alongside her boyfriend Dylan, fights to overcome drug addiction while striving to be a good mother . Ariane (Janaïna Halloy Fokan), fearing a repeat of her own troubled mother Nathalie's past mistakes, considers putting her baby up for adoption . Naïma (Samia Hilmi) is a young mother preparing to leave the home and forge her own path . All five, caught between the traumas of the past and hopes for the future, seek ways to build a better life for themselves and their children .
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.
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