Birth Movies

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

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...

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.

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...

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

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...

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

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

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

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

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

As a tanker is caught in a storm and capsizing; a second cook on board receives a voice mail from his wife that he is a father to a baby girl. The...

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...

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.

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

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.

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...