Movies: Birth

In parallel stories, a social butterfly and a lower middle-class wife brace themselves for the challenge of birthing a child in the modern era....

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

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

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

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....

This cinema-verite-style documentary interweaves the pregnancy and childbirth of a young woman with the lingering death of a cancer patient to comment on the celebration and tragedy of existence. The tenderness and intimacy of the young couple, and t...

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 this documentary, which became a reference in more than 500 maternity wards and private midwives' offi...

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 attentively. Sitting in a circle, the women reflect on the impending birth of their children and their own ...

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 extra-ordinary tale to motherhood full of twists, turns and tupperware!...

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

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 exploration begins. How does he perceive his world and ours? What are its learning and memorization ...

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 her parents and great-grandmother look on, a calm mid-wife delivers ten and a half pound Jazmine. Th...

A lonely man finds himself in trouble when a malevolent force begins to pursue him, forcing him to confront the beginnings and endings of his life....

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

A filmmaker plays with diary-docu and fiction as his camera joins his ventures into a phone dating club. Bored to death, hormones running, and desperately wanting to talk to someone his own age (preferably a girl), he walks into a local phone dating ...

A successful but isolated young woman, stalked by grief, is haunted inside her own body - until a final, brutal revelation shatters everything she thought she knew about herself....

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An increasingly surreal birthday party....

Based on her own experience, which she extends through the testimonies of other infertile people, director Élodie Lélu shows how Medically Assisted Procreation modifies the relationship to the body and to the imaginary....

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....