Birth Movies

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.

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

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...

After painfully passing a kidney stone, a slob discovers that a new breed of monster has invaded his home with deadly intentions.

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

A look at the daily life of midwives across Quebec.

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

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

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

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

When desperate times call for desperate measures, 9-1-1 Emergency Communications Officers are available to help with the complexities of childbirth...

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 filmmaker plays with diary-docu and fiction as his camera joins his ventures into a phone dating club. Bored to death, hormones running, and...

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...

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

Exploring the revitalization of traditional birthing practices in Indigenous communities across Turtle Island, the film blends personal stories of...

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