Why Directors Teodora Ana Mihai and Sode Yukiko Kept Motherhood Secret From Colleagues: ‘I Needed to Prove Myself Three Times More’

Why Directors Teodora Ana Mihai and Sode Yukiko Kept Motherhood Secret From Colleagues: ‘I Needed to Prove Myself Three Times More’ hakkında magazin dünyasında yaşanan en son ayrıntılar ve sıcak gelişmeler netleşti. Nov 2, 2026 12:16am PT Why Directors Teodora Ana Mihai and Sode Yukiko Kept Motherhood Secret From Colleagues: ‘I Needed to Prove Myself Three Times More’ By Naman Ramachandran Plus Icon Naman Ramachandran Latest Isabelle Huppert Vampire Film ‘The Blood Countess’ Was Cut Against Director’s Wishes, Ulrike Ottinger Tells Tokyo Event 41 minutes ago Siddhant Chaturvedi, Alizeh, Jimmy Shergill’s 1990s British Punjabi Music Drama ‘Bolo Bolo Bolo,’ Directed by Vikas Bahl, Wraps U.K. Shoot (EXCLUSIVE) 3 hours ago China Box Office: ‘Resident Evil’ Holds Top Spot for Fourth Straight Frame as 2014’s ‘John Wick’ Debuts in Third 4 hours ago See All Add us as a Google Preferred Source Comments Two directors with films at this year’s Tokyo International Film Festival said they once kept impending or new motherhood hidden from the people they worked with, at a festival talk on raising children while making films.

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Belgium-based Teodora Ana Mihai , whose “Heysel 85” plays in competition, shared the stage with Japanese director Sode Yukiko , whose “All the Lovers in the Night” debuted at Cannes and screens in Tokyo’s Gala Selection. The Tokyo Talks session in the festival’s TIFF Lounge was moderated by Kondo Kanako of the festival’s programming team and came with childcare for attendees, with babysitters minding a roomful of infants at the back of the venue.

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That daughter starts elementary school in April, and “All the Lovers in the Night” is Sode’s first theatrical feature in five years, following “Aristocrats.” “The situation in Japan’s film world has changed a little,” Sode said. “I’ve started to hear quite often that female directors a bit younger than me have had children, and for crew members too, I feel it has become more possible to choose to give birth than it was five years ago.” Mihai, who won the festival’s special jury prize in 2021 for “La Civil” and returned in 2024 with best actress winner “Traffic,” was 37 when her daughter was born.

She decided early that she would not pick between motherhood and a profession she considers her passion, but fear of social rules pushed the decision to start a family late. Once pregnant, she told few people in the business.

Since it was winter and she was quite thin at the time, she was still hiding the pregnancy under her clothes at six months. “I was really conflicted with myself, because I was already feeling like a bad mother, because I was hiding something so beautiful and actually so natural,” Mihai said.

“The censorship came also from me and my mentality, because that’s how we grew up thinking.” Because her firstborn was a daughter, Mihai said she wanted to become an example that the two roles can be combined, so that female colleagues and later generations would find a different environment. Sode noted the contrast with men, who on announcing a partner’s pregnancy simply receive congratulations and a nudge to work harder.

“To get here, I needed to prove myself three times more than many of my male colleague

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