YOUNG MOTHERS

With Babette Verbeek, Elsa Houben

Winner of both Best Screenplay and the Ecumenical Prize at the Cannes Film Festival, YOUNG MOTHERS expands the trademark naturalism of the Dardenne brothers, long lauded as Europe’s most-awarded filmmakers, with a drama of the intermingled lives of four teenage women in a Belgian group home for unwed mothers.  Evocative but never sentimental, this is storytelling that plumbs the depths of the search for love between parent and child, between siblings, and between the unprepared partners who unintentionally create a child.  Jessica, Ariane, Perla, and Julia each grapple with generational neglect and broken relationships as they face an uncertain future of motherhood themselves, full of hope and trepidation.  In French, English and Italian with English subtitles.