Birth Movies

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

After crossing the line and eating from the forbidden fruit, Gringa feels that she is being monitored by someone else. Soon she will encounter...

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...

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

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

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.

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

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

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.

The Born at Home documentary explores and uncovers the empowering journey of homebirth, shedding light on the often overlooked and misunderstood...

Teo survives, isolated in a house constantly besieged by a horde of stray dogs. It seems destiny has no other plans, than keeping Theo there, until...

"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...

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...

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...

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...

In parallel stories, a social butterfly and a lower middle-class wife brace themselves for the challenge of birthing a child in the modern era.