Birth Movies

A harried thirty-something woman is forced to decide whether she wants to be a mother after unexpectedly giving birth to her reproductive organs at...

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

Enter the world of undisturbed birth as 11 couples share their intimate personal journeys, facing their fears and moving through pain into the...

A mother tries to take care of her newborn 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...

An experimental look at the origin of the death myth of the Chinookan people in the Pacific Northwest, following two people as they navigate their...

A slow-witted couple decide to start a family.

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

A VB officer regulates the arrival of fans at Sparta. He'd like to go too, but there are more fans in their ranks and they have to rotate duty. So he...

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

Divided into four sections, "Song" is inspired by the Siberian and Finno-Ugric legends about Creation, in which the world begins with characters who...

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...

To understand eighteenth-century America through a woman's eyes, historian and author Laurel Thatcher Ulrich spent eight years working through Martha...

A look at the daily life of midwives across Quebec.

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...

The lion mask comes to life & now must deal with the concept of learning aswell as what it means to be alive & what we do with the gift of life

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...

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

"The Hart of London" is an endlessly layered tour de force. It explores life and death, the sense of place and personal displacement, and the...