Babies
Bébés

France, 2010, 79 Minute Running Time
Genre/Subjects: Coming of Age, Documentary, Family Friendly, Foreign, Nature
Language: English, Japanese, Mongolian English Sub-Titles

MUST END June 24
35mm presentation - Directed by award-winning filmmaker Thomas Balmès, Babies 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.

DIRECTOR: Thomas Balmès
Principal Cast: Hattie, Mari, Ponijao, Bayar
US Distributor: Focus Features

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