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"From winner of the Nordic Council Literature Prize and the Icelandic Literary Prize, Auður Ava Ólafsdóttir, comes a dazzling novel about a family of midwives set in the run-up to Christmas in Iceland. In the days leading up to Christmas, Dómhildur delivers her 1,922nd baby. Beginnings and endings are her family trade; she comes from a long line of midwives on her mother's side and a long line of undertakers on her father's. She even lives in...

Shot over 10 years in intimate, raw home footage by an Oscar-winning filmmaking couple, LIFE, UNEXPECTED. tells the story of bringing life into this world. Through a stillbirth, countless miscarriages, IVF, and beyond, this documentary offers an intimate look at the unforgiving and often unspoken roller coaster of infertility.

Length of gestation: 25 weeks. This is the threshold of viability for premature children. When a baby is born before their due date, the joy of his or her parents is suspended. It is the beginning of a tormented path, made of long waits at the hospital, watching children engaged in a constant fight to survive. THIS SMALL explores the story of parents who walked this path.

Seduced by her employer's son, Evangeline, a naïve young governess in early nineteenth-century London, is discharged when her pregnancy is discovered and sent to the notorious Newgate Prison. After months in the fetid, overcrowded jail, she learns she is sentenced to "the land beyond the seas," Van Diemen's Land, a penal colony in Australia. Though uncertain of what awaits, Evangeline knows one thing: the child she carries will be born on the months-long...

MOMS & MEDS: NAVIGATING PREGNANCY AND PSYCHIATRIC MEDICATION, is a documentary film that explores the options women face when they want to have children, but take medication for mental illness. The film focuses on the personal stories of the women. Other interviewees include doctors, advocates and family members who influence, and are affected by, these decisions.

Babies are dying and mothers are committing suicide, and the signs are being missed. But now an essential, one-of-a-kind feature documentary on maternal health and postpartum depression and psychosis can help professionals, family members, and mothers themselves. WHEN THE BOUGH BREAKS has been screened in 70 countries across the world; in hospitals, mental health facilities and other institutions. Narrated and Executive Produced by Brooke Shields,...

Davina McCall busts the myths surrounding the menopause and examines the science and fear around hormone replacement therapy. Nine in ten women say menopause affects their work and around half say their sex lives suffer as a result of the menopause. Davina opens up about her own experience and tackles the midlife taboos impacting women’s jobs and relationships whilst exposing the lack of extensive education on the subject.

1 in 4 women experience a miscarriage in their life. This misunderstood and deeply painful event leaves women and partners devastated, guilty and angry in an emotional ordeal often overlooked by society and the medical profession. After experiencing her second miscarriage, Australian actress Tahyna MacManus picked up a camera and set out on a mission for answers. Talking to doctors, fertility experts and other courageous women Tahyna takes us on a...

"The Crucible meets True Grit in this riveting adventure story of a fugitive girl, a mysterious gang of robbers, and their dangerous mission to transform the Wild West. In the year of our Lord 1894, I became an outlaw. The day of her wedding, 17 year old Ada's life looks good; she loves her husband, and she loves working as an apprentice to her mother, a respected midwife. But after a year of marriage and no pregnancy, in a town where barren women...