Birth Movies

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

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

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...

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

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

A lonely man finds himself in trouble when a malevolent force begins to pursue him, forcing him to confront the beginnings and endings of his life.

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

The painful exit of a child of man in the world of God. The highest sense of being and the earthly joy of man and woman.

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

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...

A slow-witted couple decide to start a family.

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...

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

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

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

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