Dir. Thomas Balmes | 2010 | France | 79 MIN

The adventure of a lifetime begins…This imaginative new documentary follows the birth and development of four babies around the world – from birth to first steps. The children are, respectively, in order of on-screen introduction: Ponijao, who lives with her family near Opuwo, Namibia; Bayarjargal, who resides with his family in Mongolia, near Bayanchandmani; Mari, who lives with her family in Tokyo, Japan; and Hattie, who resides with her family in the United States, in San Francisco. Re-defining the nonfiction art form, Babies joyfully captures on film the earliest stages of the journey of humanity that are at once unique and universal to us all.

“They grow, they learn, and they remind us of the astonishing power that is our common birthright. 'Babies' just might restore your faith in the perplexing, peculiar, and stubbornly lovable species.” - New York Times