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The adventure of a lifetime begins...

Directed by award-winning filmmaker Thomas Balmès, from an original idea by producer Alain-chabat/5792/">Alain Chabat, BABIES simultaneously follows four babies around the world—from birth to first steps. The children are, respectively, in order of on-screen introduction: Ponijao/34877/">Ponijao, who lives with her family near Opuwo, Namibia; Bayarjargal/34880/">Bayarjargal, who resides with his family in Mongolia, near Bayanchandmani; Mari/34878/">Mari, who lives with her family in Tokyo, Japan; and Hattie/34879/">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.