Birth Movies

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...

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

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...

A doctor allergic to the human touch finds his salvation in writings tattooed on the body of a dead poet.

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...

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

Executive Producer Ricki Lake and Filmmaker Abby Epstein follow their landmark documentary,'The Business of Being Born', with an all-new, four part...

On June 11th, 1997, Philippe Kahn created the first camera phone solution to share pictures instantly on public networks. The impetus for this...

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...

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

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...

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...

A slow-witted couple decide to start a family.

A look at the daily life of midwives across Quebec.

Set in a poor Québec neighbourhood during the 1930s, a young woman begins the dire labour of birthing.

Women from widely different cultures speak out about giving birth, and about the traumas they have experienced when the birth does not go as expected.

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

A short Disney film on what planning for a family is and how it works.

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

The painful exit of a child of man in the world of God. The highest sense of being and the earthly joy of man and woman.