Birth Movies

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

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...

In the summer of 1998, the filmmaker went home to Takasaki to film the birth of his brother and sister-in-law's child. Days go by and the child is...

Natalia is a 17-year-old mom living with her mother and son, Antos. She wanted to have a baby because it was a “cool” thing to do, and...

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...

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

Filmed largely in close-up, this documentary records a woman giving birth while her husband remains at her side. The camera concentrates on her face...

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

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

A group of partisans fight to the last man to cover a retreat, leaving only five, who take the newborn child of a dead woman with them. Based on the...

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...

An increasingly surreal birthday party.

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...

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

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...

An experimental documentation of Barbara Rosenthal's pregnancy and the birth of Ola Creston, as filmed by Ola's father.

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

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

More than one in ten mothers suffer from postpartum depression. Using her own dark experience, the author endeavours to find the key to a better...