Birth Movies

"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.

Under the shade of a Magnolia tree, a group of pregnant women gathers weekly. Among them is Teresa, an experienced midwife who listens to them...

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

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

Psychological thriller about a woman on the verge of a psychoses while becoming a mother.

Documentary footage from various sources, set to music. Showing the whole of human life, from birth to death and beyond.

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...

A mother tries to take care of her newborn child.

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.

A look at the daily life of midwives across Quebec.

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...

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...

The hallucinogenic and nightmarish results of one man's abuse of spray-paint and inhalable substances.

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

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.