True mothers

7 yrs 140 minutes • 2020 • 7.0

Satoka and her husband decide to adopt a boy after failing to have children themselves. After a happy time as a newly formed family, a woman calls and demands her child back, when it turns out that she might not have given her child up to the adoption agency out of her free will as a teenager. True mothers was Japan's 2021 Oscar entry and is created by director Naomi Kawase, who made the acclaimed film Sweet Bean.