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 est un être sensible qui suit une thérapie afin d'exorciser les démons de son passé. Il habite un quartier bruyant et violent. Le célibataire doit bientôt s'envoler auprès de sa mère pour souligner l'anniversaire de la mort de son père. Or, ce jour-là, rien ne se déroule comme prévu. Il se réveille en retard et perd les clés de son appartement, l'obligeant à retarder son voyage. Rejoindre maman ne sera pas évident et pour y arriver, Beau plonge dans des aventures incroyables.
Psychological thriller about a woman on the verge of a psychoses while becoming a mother.
Bien que la pratique sage-femme ait été légalisée il y a plus de 20 ans, et alors que la demande pour leurs services est en pleine croissance au Canada, l’accès à ces professionnelles de santé demeure limité au Québec. Inspirée par sa propre expérience d’un accouchement traumatique, la réalisatrice Claudie Simard nous emmène à la découverte du quotidien des sages-femmes. Le documentaire met ainsi en lumière leurs conditions de travail et expertises, mais aussi les idées reçues et préjugés qui subsistent à leur égard. Le film soulève en définitive une réflexion plus large sur les conditions actuelles d’accouchement.
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.
María et Ingvar vivent reclus avec leur troupeau de moutons dans une ferme en Islande. Lorsqu’ils découvrent un mystérieux nouveau-né, ils décident de le garder et de l'élever comme leur enfant. Cette nouvelle perspective apporte beaucoup de bonheur au couple, mais la nature leur réserve une dernière surprise…
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.
Une femme née au sein d'une secte menée par un homme commence à remettre en cause les enseignements de son "mentor".