Birth Movies

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

In the summer of 1998, the filmmaker went home to Takasaki to film the birth of his brother and sister-in-law's child. Days go by and the child is...

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.

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

Enter the world of undisturbed birth as 11 couples share their intimate personal journeys, facing their fears and moving through pain into the...

A look at the daily life of midwives across Quebec.

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...

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...

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...

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

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...

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

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

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

A failing writer loses his grip on reality as his wife grows pregnant with their child.

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

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...