The Stork Pin

The Story of the Weeping Camel

When a Mongolian nomadic family's newest camel colt is rejected by its mother, a musician is needed for a ritual to change her mind.

2003

Waiting Time

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 attenti

2023

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

Midnight Family

In Mexico City's wealthiest neighborhoods, the Ochoa family runs a for-profit ambulance, competing with other unlicensed EMTs for patients in need of

2019

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

Bodysong

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

2003

A Walk to Beautiful

"A Walk to Beautiful" tells the story of five women in Ethiopia suffering from devastating childbirth injuries. Rejected by their husbands and ostraci

2007

The High Song

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.

1989

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

Fabled Enemies

7 years after 911 the supposed mastermind behind the attacks is still at large, and the nation is entrenched in multiple Wars in the Middle East. Is B

2008

Orgasmic Birth: The Best-Kept Secret

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

2008

Born at Home

The Born at Home documentary explores and uncovers the empowering journey of homebirth, shedding light on the often overlooked and misunderstood optio

2024

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

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

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

Sages et rebelles

A look at the daily life of midwives across Quebec.

2023

For Somebody Else

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

2020

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

maɬni—towards the ocean, towards the shore

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

2021

More Business of Being Born

Executive Producer Ricki Lake and Filmmaker Abby Epstein follow their landmark documentary,'The Business of Being Born', with an all-new, four part DV

2011