A documentary centring on women's experience of home births.
Poor girl who experienced a terrible incident on her birthday which was supposed to be the happiest day.
A young aging actress reconnects with her former scene partner to ask a vital favor that could change the course of her career.
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 when his girlfriend – filmmaker Lea Glob – goes into a coma after giving birth.
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.
Beau (Phoenix) es un hombre que tendrá que enfrentarse a sus miedos y paranoias al aventurarse en una épica odisea para llegar a casa de su controladora madre.
Psychological thriller about a woman on the verge of a psychoses while becoming a mother.
A look at the daily life of midwives across Quebec.
Set in a poor Québec neighbourhood during the 1930s, a young woman begins the dire labour of birthing.
After crossing the line and eating from the forbidden fruit, Gringa feels that she is being monitored by someone else. Soon she will encounter herself with the happiness, love, hate and violence that exists in the small utopic island she lives in, portraying a character she is not, and under the gaze of someone else.
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 during pregnancy and birth. It lets us participate in the balancing act between a safe and a perfect birth.
Global pandemics are like prairie thunderstorms. Full of terror and havoc, they eventually pass. Bringing a new baby into the world can also feel like a storm.
When desperate times call for desperate measures, 9-1-1 Emergency Communications Officers are available to help with the complexities of childbirth and the delivery of babies.
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 own relationships to the spirit world and a place in between life and death.
Una pareja islandesa vive con su rebaño de ovejas en una hermosa pero remota granja. Cuando descubren un misterioso recién nacido en su tierra, deciden quedárselo y criarlo como propio. Este acontecimiento inesperado, y la perspectiva de una nueva familia, les trae mucha alegría antes de destruirlos en última instancia.
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.
What is birth? It is said that being born into this world is the beginning of suffering: dukkha.
We follow three women on an emotional and thought-provoking journey as they lend their bodies and carry someone else's child.
Selah es una chica nacida en el seno de una religión alternativa conocida como El Rebaño. Sus integrantes –todas ellas mujeres y niñas– viven en un recinto en el campo, dirigidas por un hombre conocido como el Pastor. Selah, que está en el umbral de la adolescencia, es una seguidora increíblemente devota, pero comienza a establecer un vínculo con Sarah, una esposa marginada que se muestra cada vez más escéptica respecto a las enseñanzas del Pastor.