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108m
GFF25 Closing Night: Mother's Baby
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Synopsis
Join us as we say auf Wiedersehen to the 2025 German Film Festival with the intriguing psychological thriller Mother’s Baby, starring a captivating Marie Leuenberger.
Luna Leederville - complimentary drink on arrival
Arrivals 6:45pm
Film 7:00pm
Luna on SX - film only
Film 6:30pm
Australian premiere
40-year-old Julia (Leuenberger), a successful orchestral conductor, and her partner Georg (Hans Löw) have been longing for a child when the enigmatic Dr. Vilfort (Claes Bang), a fertility specialist with a private clinic, offers them hope. After successful treatment at the fertility doctor’s clinic, Julia becomes pregnant.
However, when they return to the clinic nine months later, 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 and soon begins to doubt whether it is really her child and if something peculiar is going on at the clinic.
Direct from screening in competition at the 2025 Berlinale, writer-director Johanna Moder's visceral tale of paranoia, ambiguity and maternal anxieties delivers enthralling thrills and sinister chills that will stay with you for days.
German with English subtitles
OFFICIAL SELECTION | Berlin International Film Festival 2025
NOMINEE | Best Film, Best Screenplay, Berlin International Film Festival 2025
Opening Date
Wednesday, May 28, 2025
Rating
CTC
Length
108m
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