''Mothers and Monsters'' is a 2023 Canadian short drama film, written and directed by

Édith Jorisch Édith Jorisch is a Canadian filmmaker from Quebec.Odile Tremblay"Mémoire de tableau" ''Le Devoir'', April 27, 2013. She is most noted for her films ''The Heir (L'héritier)'', which won a Prix Gémeaux in 2017 and the Michael Moskovitz Award for ...

. An allegory for women's anxieties and fears about motherhood, the film depicts a group of women at a banquet whose babies are delivered to them in heads of

cabbage Cabbage, comprising several cultivars of ''Brassica oleracea'', is a leafy green, red (purple), or white (pale green) biennial plant grown as an annual vegetable crop for its dense-leaved heads. It is descended from the wild cabbage ( ''B.&nb ...

, amid an increasingly strange and surreal environment. The cast includes Dean Brisson, Ines Defosse, Arielle Fournier, Juliette Gariépy, Noémie Lanoix,

Mylène Mackay Mylène Mackay (born 7 July 1987) is a Canadian actress. She received a Canadian Screen Award nomination as Best Supporting Actress at the 4th Canadian Screen Awards for her performance in '' Endorphine''. In 2016, she appeared as Nelly Arcan ...

, Sarah Ouimette and Aline Winant. The film premiered at the 2023 Toronto International Film Festival. It was subsequently screened at the

2023 Festival du nouveau cinéma The 2023 edition of the Festival du nouveau cinéma, the 52nd edition in the event's history, took place from October 4 to 15, 2023 in Montreal, Quebec, Canada. The festival opened with '' The Taste of Things (La Passion de Dodin Bouffant)'' by T ...

, where it won the audience award in the national short film competition. The film was named to TIFF's annual

Canada's Top Ten Canada's Top Ten is an annual honour, compiled by the Toronto International Film Festival and announced in December each year to identify and promote the year's best Canadian films."Canada's Top Ten awards will honour excellence in Canadian cinema" ...

list for 2023. The film was a

Canadian Screen Award The Canadian Screen Awards (french: link=no, Les prix Écrans canadiens) are awards given for artistic and technical merit in the film industry recognizing excellence in Canadian film, English-language television, and digital media (web series) p ...

nominee for Best Live Action Short Drama at the 12th Canadian Screen Awards in 2024."BlackBerry Leads CSA Nominations"
''Northern Stars'', March 6, 2024.

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* 2023 films 2023 short films Canadian drama short films 2020s Canadian films Quebec films French-language Canadian films {{2020s-Canada-film-stub