Birth Movies

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

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...

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

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...

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

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

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

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...

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...

When a young boy forms an unusual connection with his late grandmother, his mother's refusal to believe spirals their lives into chaos.

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

Parallel tales of young couples desperately escaping cruel false fathers, each couple on the run across different regions of the country and during...

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

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...

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

Rönneberga is an old family manor. When Lennart Heijken is born, his proud father buys his newborn a grandfather's clock that will follow him...

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

From the seventh month of pregnancy, the five senses of the baby in utero become functional. In the closed universe that is his, a formidable sensory...

A look at the daily life of midwives across Quebec.