Mahershala Ali and Bassam Tariq Reunite for 'Your Mother Your Mother Your Mother'

Mahershala Ali and director Bassam Tariq have reunited for a new feature titled Your Mother Your Mother Your Mother, a project the pair developed before they first worked together on Blade.

The film centres on faith and love, with fatherhood emerging as the formative experience shaping its making.

How did the project begin?

According to the film's publicity, Your Mother Your Mother Your Mother was conceived well before Ali and Tariq sat down to discuss Blade. The relationship that followed on that earlier production — the long-delayed Marvel feature — gave the new work its creative footing.

Ali is credited as the film's star, with Tariq directing. The two are presented as both artistic collaborators and, by their own account in the project's accompanying discussion of the film, partners shaped by parenthood.

What role does fatherhood play?

It was fatherhood that informed the new movie, the film's own framing states. The connection between becoming a parent and the decision to revisit a story about mothers, lineage and belief runs through the project's central preoccupations.

Rather than treating fatherhood as biographical backdrop, the framing positions the experience as a lens through which the script — already drafted before Ali and Tariq knew each other — could be reread. Faith and love, the two themes the title announcement foregrounds, are understood through the altered vantage of a parent.

Why a reunion, and why now?

The pair's shared experience on Blade establishes the professional shorthand. A director and actor who first crossed paths on a major studio tentpole, then returned to a smaller, more personal project, fit a familiar pattern of post-blockbuster recalibration in contemporary American filmmaking.

The film is announced with faith and love as its explicit subject matter rather than its genre. That framing places the work outside the domestic comedy or studio melodrama modes and closer to the essayistic, inheritance-driven tradition that has gained ground at festivals over the past decade.

What is known about the production?

The release confirms Ali as star and Tariq as director. No distributor, release window, production company or co-financiers are identified in the announcement reviewed here. The film's full creative team beyond its two principals has not been disclosed.

For now, the project exists as a stated collaboration between two named principals whose first formal meeting, on a Marvel feature, is the hinge on which the new film turns.

What to watch next

The next markers will be distributor attachment and a festival or platform date. Given Tariq's prior festival-circuit work and Ali's profile following his earlier award-season run, the project's natural home would be an autumn festival bow or an awards-season platform release — though no such placement has yet been announced.

For both collaborators, the film will be read as a statement about priorities after a studio superhero assignment. The clearest sign of that statement will come when the finished film is shown rather than described.