Birth

Alexis is a 32-year-old white woman married to Alain, an African from Rwanda. This documentary focuses on Alexis giving birth in her parents home. As...

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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.

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

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The director’s diary told in still images of a dramatic period in which he becomes first a father and then almost loses the love of his life...

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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...

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

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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...

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

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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.

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

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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...

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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.

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

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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...

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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...

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

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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...

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