This chapter delves into the niche area of Iranian female-directed war movies in the Sacred Defence genre in order to contribute to the understanding of motherhood in an Iranian context. Specifically, the author analyzes the films Gilaneh (2005), Track 143 (2013), and Villa Dwellers (2017), made by acclaimed Iranian female directors Rakhshan Banietemad, Narges Abyar, and Monir Gheidi, respectively. Jafari demonstrates how these directors’ films break the norms of their cinematic category to re-construct the image of motherhood through subversive characters that redefine motherhood, reverse traditional gender roles, and expand the scope of ‘normative’ mothering in the Iranian cinema. Jafari draws on Helene Cixous’s ideas to argue that the selected films in her study are essentially a form of visual écriture féminine, by means of which the three filmmakers challenge the projected images of and hegemonic assumptions about mothers perpetuated in the Iranian film industry in an attempt to reflect a more realistic image of Iranian mothers in their craft.