Birth Movies

The everyday life of midwives unfolds on the threshold where new life is born and life may fade away. The film shows how midwives support couples...

We follow three women on an emotional and thought-provoking journey as they lend their bodies and carry someone else's child.

Parallel tales of young couples desperately escaping cruel false fathers, each couple on the run across different regions of the country and during...

The story of Jesus' birth and what happened during it.

Az is seven years old girl lives in small village with her parents. Az soon will have baby sister. It is the most joyful moment for her life. But...

Natalia is a 17-year-old mom living with her mother and son, Antos. She wanted to have a baby because it was a “cool” thing to do, and...

This cinema-verite-style documentary interweaves the pregnancy and childbirth of a young woman with the lingering death of a cancer patient to...

At a summer-evening dance a young girl meets a man who tells her he is a doctor. They go off together, and after that she never sees him again. She...

Josie longs to have a baby. Her husband Frank would rather have steak. Set against the Technicolor backdrop of 1950's America, Josie sets out on an...

After giving birth to her first child at age 20, Mona Achache had the idea to make a film on childbirth. She filmed the work of midwives to produce...

As a tanker is caught in a storm and capsizing; a second cook on board receives a voice mail from his wife that he is a father to a baby girl. The...

A group of partisans fight to the last man to cover a retreat, leaving only five, who take the newborn child of a dead woman with them. Based on the...

What is birth? It is said that being born into this world is the beginning of suffering: dukkha.

More than one in ten mothers suffer from postpartum depression. Using her own dark experience, the author endeavours to find the key to a better...

A look at the daily life of midwives across Quebec.

An experimental documentation of Barbara Rosenthal's pregnancy and the birth of Ola Creston, as filmed by Ola's father.

George Stoney investigates the living conditions, both good and bad, in the rural, segregated South.

Mary tries to find a way to escape her loneliness by conceiving a child.