2024 | Finland | Documentary

Confessions of Undecided Women

  • Finnish English 20 mins
  • Director | Milja Härkönen
  • Writer | Milja Härkönen
  • Producer | Vilja Savonlahti

STATUS: Released

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I’m not ready to make such an ultimate decision. What if I’m unfit? When did my uterus become the property of society? I don’t want to lose my identity. Why must I have to do everything all at once? Is it morally okay to bring another life into a world full of calamity and climate change? This vibrant and cleverly drawn animated short shares the open and honest thoughts, feelings, anger, fears, doubts, indignations, observations, and ruminations of dozens of Finnish women as they contemplate (un)motherhood amid an all-too-real population crisis. As the birth rate steadily declines in Finland—an issue as widespread as it is difficult—women navigate peer pressure, societal expectations, biological clocks, and parents aching to become grandparents. The finality of the decision is as frightening to some as the prospect of turning into their own mothers. WM

Motherhood Choices Societal Expectations Population Decline Biological Clock Finnish Women
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