Young Mothers
(1h 45m)
Year
2025
Origin
France, Belgium
Director
Jean-Pierre Dardenne, Luc Dardenne
Cast
India Hair, Lucie Laruelle, Claire Bodson, Elsa Houben, Christelle Cornil
Young Mothers, the latest film by Jean-Pierre Dardenne and Luc Dardenne, brings into focus the lives of five teenage girls — Jessica, Perla, Julie, Ariane, and Naïma — at the beginning of an unexpected journey: motherhood.
In a maternal home that offers them support, they share not only the same space, but also the fragility of a transitional moment, where solidarity, fear, hope, and the effort to imagine a possible future intertwine. The film delicately captures this unstable balance between vulnerability and strength, between what has been and what might become.