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Motherboard

Dir: Victoria Mapplebeck
87mins   2025   UK   Certificate: 15   English   

At the age of 38, Victoria Mapplebeck found herself single, pregnant and broke. Unable to combine motherhood with freelance directing, she was forced to abandon her career in TV, instead turning the camera on herself and her son, Jim.

Filmed over 20 years, Victoria has 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.

'Shot over nearly two decades, this is a candid, unsentimental, perceptive and, at times, profoundly moving portrait of the highs and lows of motherhood' - Wendy Ide, Screen International

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