MOTHER’S BABY

Feature Fiction Film

by Johanna Moder

AT/CH/D, 108 Min.

A production by FreibeuterFilm
In coproduction with tellfilm
In collaboration with The Match Factory

Cast: Marie Leuenberger, Hans Löw, Claes Bang, Julia Franz Richter
DOP:
Robert Oberrainer
Production Design:
Hannes Salat
Costume Design:
Stefanie Bieker, Carola Pizzini
Make up & Hair: Martine Felber
Casting: Eva Roth
Sound: Patrick Storck, Nils Kirchhoff, Gina Keller, Guido Keller
Editing: Karin Hammer
Music: Diego Ramos Rodriguez
Producers: Sabine Moser & Oliver Neumann
Co-Producers: Katrin Renz, Viola Fügen, Michael Weber
Screenplay: Johanna Moder & Arne Kohlweyer
Director: Johanna Moder
Supported by: Austrian Film Institute, ÖFI+, Vienna Film Fund, Federal Office of Culture (FOC), Zürcher Filmstiftung, MOIN Filmförderung Hamburg Schleswig-Holstein, Hessen Film & Medien, Funding Programm STEP
In coproduction with ORF Film-/Fernsehabkommen, SRF Schweizer Radio und Fernsehen / SRG SSR and blue Entertainment

Berlinale 2025 – Competition
As part of the project, ecological and sustainable production methods were implemented based on the Green Filming guidelines of the Austrian Film Institute. With the involvement of a Green Film Consultant trained and certified by the Lower Austrian Film Commission / Evergreen Prisma Academy and Philip Gassmann, measures were taken to reduce CO2 emissions, conserve resources, and prevent waste, while CO2 emissions were recorded.

SYNOPSIS

40-year-old Julia, a successful conductor, and her partner Georg are longing for a child when Dr. Vilfort offers them hope. Julia becomes pregnant after successful treatment at the fertility doctor’s clinic. The birth does not go as planned and the baby is immediately taken away, leaving Julia in the dark about what has happened. When finally reunited with the child, Julia feels strangely distant. She begins to doubt whether it is really her child.

 


Johanna Moder is an Austrian screenwriter and director. Her feature debut HIGH PERFORMACE won the prestigious Audience Award at the 2014 Max Ophüls Festival. Johanna’s feature ONCE WERE REBELS had its intl. premiere at Zurich Film Festival, winning the Ecumenical Jury Prize, as well as Best Director at the 2020 Max Ophüls Festival and the 2020 Thomas Pluch Screenwriting Award. Moder recently directed her first TV series SCHOOL OF CHAMPIONS, an ORF, BR and SFR co-production; the Passau crime film ZEIT ZU BETEN with Marie Leuenberger; and the TV movie EWIG DEIN. MOTHER’S BABY is an international co-production between Austria, Germany and Switzerland, starring Marie Leuenberger, Hans Löw and Claes Bang.

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