{
  "id": 17769251,
  "title": "Why Directors Teodora Ana Mihai and Sode Yukiko Kept Motherhood Secret From Colleagues: ‘I Needed to Prove Myself Three Times More’",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/11/02/why-directors-teodora-ana-mihai-and-sode-yukiko-kept-motherhood",
  "topic": "culture",
  "section": "Culture",
  "published": "2026-11-02T08:16:09.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "Variety",
    "slug": "variety",
    "url": "https://variety.com/2026/film/festivals/teodora-ana-mihai-sode-yukiko-kept-motherhood-secret-work-1236937243/"
  },
  "original_language": "en",
  "account": null,
  "summary": "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. Belgium-based Teodora Ana Mihai, whose “Heysel 85” plays in competition, shared the stage with Japanese director Sode Yukiko, whose […]",
  "key_points": [],
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  "coverage": {
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  },
  "ai_generated": true,
  "disclaimer": "Summaries, key points and the editor’s take are written by software from other outlets’ reporting and may contain errors — always check the linked original."
}