Birth Movies

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...

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...

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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...

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

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...

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

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

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...

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...

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