Midwife Filmes

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

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...

The experienced and freelance midwife Emma is in court: Has she over-estimated her abilities and thus jeopardized the health and life of a child?

Edeltraut Hertel - a midwife caught between two worlds. She has been working as a midwife in a small village near Chemnitz for almost 20 years,...

A portrait that tells us about destiny, through the life of Lucía, the last midwife on the plateau of Jala, municipality of Nayarit.

An experimental documentation of Barbara Rosenthal's pregnancy and the birth of Ola Creston, as filmed by Ola's father.

Louis Maltais loves challenges. At 27, this ex-circus artist begins his training to become the first male midwife in Quebec. During 4 years, the...

Pacha works as a midwife in a war zone in Colombia. The intimate portrait of her life and profession, is the jump off point for a larger portrayal of...

Birth Story: Ina May Gaskin and The Farm Midwives captures a spirited group of women who taught themselves how to deliver babies on a 1970s hippie...

George Stoney investigates the living conditions, both good and bad, in the rural, segregated South.

In 1789 Maine, a man is found frozen in the Kennebec River. Respected midwife and healer Martha Ballard is summoned to examine the body and determine...

A midwife goes to medical school to learn modern techniques.