Babies
- Directors: Thomas Balmes
1 hr. 15 min. Rated PG for cultural and maternal nudity throughout. Documentary. 35mm. Focus Features.
Synopsis for Babies: The adventure of a lifetime begins... Directed by award-winning filmmaker Thomas Balm?s, from an original idea by producer Alain Chabat, this film simultaneously follows 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.