Birth Movies

Mrs. Burgess explains menstruation to her teen-aged daughter by showing her diagrams in a medical book. Her daughter-in-law Mary then tells Mrs....

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...

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...

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

It is 1968 and Marianne is nineteen years old. She has been sent to a home for young girls, far from her family and friends. Here she meets other...

Based on her own experience, which she extends through the testimonies of other infertile people, director Élodie Lélu shows how...

Global pandemics are like prairie thunderstorms. Full of terror and havoc, they eventually pass. Bringing a new baby into the world can also feel...

Natalia is a 17-year-old mom living with her mother and son, Antos. She wanted to have a baby because it was a “cool” thing to do, and...

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...

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

"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...

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

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.

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

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

Casiopea is the journey to life itself. A captivating adventure that unravels the eternal question of humankind: What happens before/after life?

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

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

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

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...