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🕯️ 1 in 4 mothers has lost a child. Mother's Day doesn't acknowledge them. This film does.
35 MILLION MOTHERS is a short documentary produced by My Grief Angels Inc. — a public non-profit created by mothers who have also experienced the loss of a child. This film features real testimonials from bereaved mothers who have lost children of every age. Every mother's voice is honored here.
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📖 ABOUT THIS FILM
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Mother's Day and Father's Day are celebrated each year by millions of families — but for an estimated 35 million mothers in the United States alone, these holidays carry a different weight. They are days of absence, of silence, of a grief that the world around them rarely acknowledges.
This film is our answer to that silence.
We asked bereaved mothers one simple question: What does Mother's Day feel like when your child is gone?
Their answers will stay with you.
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💜 WHO THIS FILM IS FOR
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This film is for every parent who has lost a child — at any age, for any reason — and felt invisible on Mother's and Father's Day.
It is for the mother who lost her baby to miscarriage and was told to "move on."
It is for the mother whose son died by suicide and who sits alone every second Sunday of May.
It is for the mother who lost her 50-year-old daughter and is told her grief doesn't count because her child "lived a full life."
It is for the father who stands beside his partner in a grief that has no public space.
It is for the friend, the family member, the colleague who never knew what to say.
If you love someone who is bereaved — this film will help you understand what they carry.
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📣 OUR ADVOCACY MESSAGE
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We believe Mother's Day and Father's Day should be inclusive holidays — celebrations that hold space for joy AND for grief, for living children AND for those we have lost.
35 million mothers in the U.S. have experienced pregnancy loss, stillbirth, or the death of a child at any age. That is 1 in 4 women. They are in your family. They are in your church. They are in your workplace. They are in every room you walk into.
They are still mothers. They always will be.
Director
Augusto Failde
Producer
La-Tonya Hatcher
Key Cast
Angelina Orlando
Key Cast
Pamela Maugile
Key Cast
Maria Constanten
Key Cast
35 Million Mothers Mother's Day | A Mother's Day Short Documentary Film About Bereaved Moms
| 35 Million Mothers Mother's Day | A Mother's Day Short Documentary Film About Bereaved Moms | |
| Documentary Short Films | |
| grief,community,mental health,holidays,support | |
| 10 minutes | |
| United States | |
| 2026 | |
| English |
Synopsis:
35 Million Mothers Mother's Day - https://35millionmothers.com/🕯️ 1 in 4 mothers has lost a child. Mother's Day doesn't acknowledge them. This film does.
35 MILLION MOTHERS is a short documentary produced by My Grief Angels Inc. — a public non-profit created by mothers who have also experienced the loss of a child. This film features real testimonials from bereaved mothers who have lost children of every age. Every mother's voice is honored here.
─────────────────────────────────────
📖 ABOUT THIS FILM
─────────────────────────────────────
Mother's Day and Father's Day are celebrated each year by millions of families — but for an estimated 35 million mothers in the United States alone, these holidays carry a different weight. They are days of absence, of silence, of a grief that the world around them rarely acknowledges.
This film is our answer to that silence.
We asked bereaved mothers one simple question: What does Mother's Day feel like when your child is gone?
Their answers will stay with you.
─────────────────────────────────────
💜 WHO THIS FILM IS FOR
─────────────────────────────────────
This film is for every parent who has lost a child — at any age, for any reason — and felt invisible on Mother's and Father's Day.
It is for the mother who lost her baby to miscarriage and was told to "move on."
It is for the mother whose son died by suicide and who sits alone every second Sunday of May.
It is for the mother who lost her 50-year-old daughter and is told her grief doesn't count because her child "lived a full life."
It is for the father who stands beside his partner in a grief that has no public space.
It is for the friend, the family member, the colleague who never knew what to say.
If you love someone who is bereaved — this film will help you understand what they carry.
─────────────────────────────────────
📣 OUR ADVOCACY MESSAGE
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We believe Mother's Day and Father's Day should be inclusive holidays — celebrations that hold space for joy AND for grief, for living children AND for those we have lost.
35 million mothers in the U.S. have experienced pregnancy loss, stillbirth, or the death of a child at any age. That is 1 in 4 women. They are in your family. They are in your church. They are in your workplace. They are in every room you walk into.
They are still mothers. They always will be.
Credits:
Terri YatesDirector
Augusto Failde
Producer
La-Tonya Hatcher
Key Cast
Angelina Orlando
Key Cast
Pamela Maugile
Key Cast
Maria Constanten
Key Cast