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Motherboard is a smartphone feature exploring motherhood, filmed on 5 generations of smartphone over 20 years by BAFTA award-winning director Victoria Mapplebeck. At 38, Victoria 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. Victoria recorded hundreds of hours of footage, capturing each twist and turn in Jim’s life, from the thumbs-up Jim gave her during her first pregnancy scan to his first day at college MOTHERBOARD charts the real-life comedy and the roller coaster of solo parenting. Victoria captures a life where both she and Jim survive her breast cancer diagnosis, two generations of absent fathers and Jim’s rollercoaster teen years. Honest, funny and infinitely relatable, MOTHERBOARD is the antidote to the unrealistic expectations we have about motherhood and a film for anyone who wants to see family life in all its unfiltered glory Motherboard will be followed by a Q and A with Victoria Mapplebeck and Jim Mapplebeck hosted by Writer and Broadcaster Janet Ellis

  • Release Date :
  • 04 Jun 2026
  • Certificate :
  • 15
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