Mother's Baby

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Mother's Baby

Mar 2026

1h 48m

Mystery & Thriller

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Forty-year-old Julia, a successful conductor, and her partner Georg are longing for a child when Dr. Vilfort, a fertility specialist with a private clinic, offers them hope with an experimental procedure. Julia becomes pregnant after successful treatment at the clinic. However, the birth does not go as planned and the baby is immediately taken away for additional treatment, leaving Julia and her husband in the dark about what has happened. When Julia is finally reunited with the child, she feels strangely distant. The baby's presence puts a strain on their marriage as it becomes clear that Julia has doubts about whether the baby they have brought home is really hers.

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Rachel Pronger

Sight & Sound

Nov 5, 2025

It’s a shame though that despite a promising build-up, Moder never fully commits to the midnight madness possibilities offered by the genre movies she references, shying away when the chance to go full-blown creep-fest finally arrives.

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Siddhant Adlakha

Variety

Mar 23, 2025

If not for a few ill-conceived decisions toward the end, Johanna Moder’s jet-black motherhood comedy would be the perfect genre thriller.

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David Rooney

The Hollywood Reporter

Feb 22, 2025

Mother’s Baby is juicy, disturbing and slashed with dark humor. It had me gripped for the duration, even at its loopiest.

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Jordi Batlle Caminal

Fotogramas

Sep 14, 2026

3/5

The film lacks a certain punch, but the unsettling feeling it spreads is welcome, as is the presence of the axolotl, that poor amphibian as ugly as a pimple. [Full review in Spanish]

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Daniela Urzola

Caimán Cuadernos de Cine

Sep 8, 2026

None of this results in a particularly revolutionary addition to the canon of 'new motherhood'. But there is, at least, the seed of a renaissance. [Full review in Spanish]

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Miguel Ángel Romero

Cinemanía (Spain)

Jun 18, 2026

3/5

A textbook case of trying too hard but failing, only salvaged by the strength of a character with whom it's very easy to empathize. [Full review in Spanish]

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nilufer E

@Nilicim Mar 14, 2026

Quite intriguing and tense, but maybe a bit too ambiguous for my taste. In the end I found myself trusting the mother’s instinct — it felt like the most honest reading of the story.

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Forty-year-old Julia, a successful conductor, and her partner Georg are longing for a child when Dr. Vilfort, a fertility specialist with a private clinic, offers them hope with an experimental procedure. Julia becomes pregnant after successful treatment at the clinic. However, the birth does not go as planned and the baby is immediately taken away for additional treatment, leaving Julia and her husband in the dark about what has happened. When Julia is finally reunited with the child, she feels strangely distant. The baby's presence puts a strain on their marriage as it becomes clear that Julia has doubts about whether the baby they have brought home is really hers.

Director: Johanna Moder
Producer: Sabine Moser, Oliver Neumann
Screenwriter: Arne Kohlweyer, Johanna Moder, Johanna Moder, Arne Kohlweyer
Distributor: Dark Sky Films
Production Co: FreibeuterFilm, tellfilm
Genre: Mystery & Thriller
Original Language: German
Release Date (Theaters): Mar 6, 2026, Limited
Release Date (Streaming): Mar 6, 2026
Runtime: 1h 48m

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