Birth Movies

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...

A teenage girl from a traditional family goes on a date with a pilot and ends up having sex with him. After the pilot dies in a plane crash, the girl...

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...

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

"The Hart of London" is an endlessly layered tour de force. It explores life and death, the sense of place and personal displacement, and the...

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

A look at the daily life of midwives across Quebec.

A mother tries to take care of her newborn child.

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...

Poor girl who experienced a terrible incident on her birthday which was supposed to be the happiest day.

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

The director’s diary told in still images of a dramatic period in which he becomes first a father and then almost loses the love of his life...

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

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...

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

A young aging actress reconnects with her former scene partner to ask a vital favor that could change the course of her career.

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...

Alexis is a 32-year-old white woman married to Alain, an African from Rwanda. This documentary focuses on Alexis giving birth in her parents home. As...