The Best Mother in the World (2025)

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A desperate mother flees with her kids, hiding them in her recycling cart. Homeless and vulnerable, she transforms their harsh reality into a thrilling journey, shielding them from the truth of their precarious situation.

Written and directed by Anna Muylaert (The Second Mother).

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Muylaert remains best known for her 2015 feature “The Second Mother,” a Sundance prizewinner that gained widespread distribution on the strength of its measured class commentary and open-hearted feeling. Like that film, “The Best Mother in the World” centers its gaze on a working-class woman struggling to do right by her children in a society and economy stacked against her, and it’s hard not to be moved by both the specificity of her plight and the wider picture the film paints of marginalized women’s rights in contemporary Brazil. It’s a less subtle, more sentimental film than its predecessor, with straightforward craft and writing that sometimes verges on the declamatory, but should be popular with audiences on the festival circuit following its Berlinale Special premiere. [+]-- ‘The Best Mother in the World’ Review: Another Study of Maternal Resilience From Brazil’s Anna Muylaert
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Thanks for posting this. Looks fantastic.