BAFTA winner Victoria Mapplebeck’s documentary Motherboard has been 20 years in the making. This remarkable film charts the joy, pain and comedy of Victoria raising her son Jim alone.

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 Jim. In the ensuing years, and using a variety of generations of camera and iPhone, she recorded hundreds of hours of footage, capturing each twist and turn in Jim’s life – from the thumbs- up he gave during her first scan, through Victoria’s breast cancer diagnosis and treatment, his first day at college and two generations of absent fathers.

Alongside Victoria and Jim’s challenges in life, we witness Jim growing from baby to inquisitive and mature boy to sweet, funny and emotionally intelligent man over 87 riveting minutes.

The resulting film is a complex, relatable, personal, funny and utterly unsentimental portrait of a mother-son relationship from birth to adulthood.