Birth Movies

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

The story of Jesus' birth and what happened during it.

After crossing the line and eating from the forbidden fruit, Gringa feels that she is being monitored by someone else. Soon she will encounter...

An arrogant boxer (Pat O'Brien) discovers his wife (Glenda Farrell) had a hand in his success.

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...

Poor girl who experienced a terrible incident on her birthday which was supposed to be the happiest day.

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

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

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

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...

A look at the daily life of midwives across Quebec.

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

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

This movie charts the three most important questions regarding birth: 1. What makes a safe birth? 2. What disrupts a birth? 3. What do birth...

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

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...

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...