Mother's Baby

40-year-old Julia, a successful conductor, and her partner Georg are longing for a child when Dr. Vilfort offers them hope. Julia becomes pregnant after successful treatment at the fertility doctor’s clinic. The birth does not go as planned and the baby is immediately taken away, leaving Julia in the dark about what has happened. When finally reunited with the child, Julia feels strangely distant. She begins to doubt whether it is really her child.

Johanna Moder is an Austrian screenwriter and director. Her feature debut HIGH PERFORMACE won the prestigious Audience Award at the 2014 Max Ophüls Festival.

Johanna’s feature ONCE WERE REBELS had its intl. premiere at Zurich Film Festival, winning the Ecumenical Jury Prize, as well as Best Director at the 2020 Max Ophüls Festival and the 2020 Thomas Pluch Screenwriting Award.

Moder recently directed her first TV series SCHOOL OF CHAMPIONS, an ORF, BR and SFR co-production; the Passau crime film ZEIT ZU BETEN with Marie Leuenberger; and the TV movie EWIG DEIN. MOTHER’S BABY is an international co-production between Austria, Germany and Switzerland, starring Marie Leuenberger, Hans Löw and Claes Bang.

2025 MOTHER'S BABY
2024 EWIG DEIN (TV)
2024 SCHOOL OF CHAMPIONS (TV SERIES)
2022 ZEIT ZU BETEN (TV)
2019 ONCE WERE REBELS
2014 HIGH PERFORMANCE