For Somebody Else

Pas facile d’être mère

2016

The Stork Pin

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

2021

Se habla de Gabriel

Documentary essay based on portraits of five women, their different ways of living motherhood, challenges and particularities.

2020

Birth and Death

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

1968

Love Alone Can't Make a Child

Love Alone Can’t Make a Child chronicles the love story and emotional odyssey of Maria and Christiane who, for over a decade, have been trying to fulf

2024

Mother Eve

A family’s difficult but endearing journey that re-defines motherhood: is it through nature or nurture? Yasmine is a young woman forced to raise her

2023

Bodysong

Documentary footage from various sources, set to music. Showing the whole of human life, from birth to death and beyond.

2003

Picture Proof

Examines the intergenerational impact of addiction by chronicling the love, labor, loss, and uncertainty of one woman’s struggle to live a life of sob

2023

The Business of Being Born

Birth: it's a miracle. A rite of passage. A natural part of life. But more than anything, birth is a business. Compelled to find answers after a disap

2008

Motherland

The planet’s busiest maternity hospital is located in one of its poorest and most populous countries: the Philippines. There, poor women face devastat

2017

Diamond Tongue

Lengua de diamante submerges into the past, present, and future life of Elsa Riveros, Colombia’s First Lady of Rock. Long after her iconic career as a

Midwives – Into This World

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 duri

2022

Birthing at Home

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

2009

Fight Mom

A documentary that follows Michelle "The Karate Hottie" Waterson as she balances life as a mother and professional MMA fighter.

2016

Come Worry with Us!

Acclaimed Montreal band Thee Silver Mt. Zion Memorial Orchestra is one of a growing number of rock groups to have accepted an infant into their tourin

2013

My Survival as an Aboriginal

Essie Coffey gives the children lessons on Aboriginal culture. She speaks of the importance of teaching these kids about their traditions. Aboriginal

1979

Nana

2016

Papa – Notes on Life and Death

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

2023

Scheme Birds

As her adolescence gives way to the obligations of motherhood, troubled Gemma matures in Motherwell, her Scottish hometown, heavily dependent on the s

2019

Natsu ni umareru

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 despera

1998