Dir. Victoria Mappleback
2024 | 87 mins | UK | English

Showing Times

• Tue 9 Sep 11.00am ∆ + 7.50pm
• Wed 10 Sep 2.00pm

Δ Baby Friendly Screening
For parents/carers with babies under 12 months. The volume is reduced and the lights are on-low so you can enjoy a safe and relaxed show with you baby. We provide a buggy park and nappy changing facilities.

BAFTA-winning shorts director Victoria Mapplebeck brings a unique, intimate and unfiltered self-portrait and insight into a mother-son relationship.

After finding herself single, pregnant and broke at 38, Victoria has to abandon her freelance directing career and turns the camera on herself, documenting her journey solo-parenting her son Jim.

Filmed over 20 years, Victoria recorded hundreds of hours of footage, capturing each twist and turn in Jim’s life, from the thumbs-up he gave her during her first pregnancy scan to his first day at college.

The film documents the pair surviving Victoria’s breast cancer diagnosis, two generations of absent fathers and Jim’s rollercoaster teen years with a gallows sense of humour and an irrepressible ability to turn lemons into lemonade.

Honest, funny and infinitely relatable, MOTHERBOARD is the antidote to the unrealistic expectations we have about motherhood.

Venue: Studio 74, Exeter Phoenix

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