The celebration of new life in “Babies,” a documentary about four newborns around the world, almost makes the project worthwhile — but not quite. French director Thomas Balmes dives right into his ...

Everyone loves looking at babies, but they’re rarely the subject of a feature film. This we realize while watching the often enjoyable, if intellectually questionable documentary Babies from director ...

In the charming documentary Babies, French filmmaker Thomas Balmes presents us with a quartet of babies, infants freshly birthed in urban settings in Japan and America, as well as sun-baked Namibia ...

Savvy directors know that kids and critters are hard to resist — or compete with. So it's fitting that pets get more screen time than fathers in this profile of cooing newborns from the four corners ...

TORONTO (Hollywood Reporter) - "Babies," a French documentary by Thomas Balmes, will open the Hot Docs Canadian International Documentary Festival on April 29, organizers said Tuesday. The Focus ...