Birth/Rebirth

Friday, August 18 - Saturday, September 2, 2023

Please note that there are additional showtimes of BIRTH/REBIRTH that screen with open captions (on-screen display of dialogue and sounds). For those showtimes, click here.

Director Laura Moss to be in person for a Q&A moderated by Esther Zuckerman following the 7:40 p.m. show on Friday August 18, 2023.

Rose (Marin Ireland) is a pathologist who prefers working with corpses over social interaction.She also has an obsession—the reanimation of the dead. Celie (Judy Reyes) is a maternity nurse who has built her life around her bouncy, chatterbox six-year-old daughter, Lila (A.J. Lister).When one tragic night, Lila suddenly falls ill and dies, the two women’s worlds crash into each other. They embark on a dark path of no return where they will be forced to confront how far they are willing to go to protect what they hold most dear.This standout directorial debut from Laura Moss reimagines Mary Shelley’s classic horror myth Frankenstein with such a contemporary understanding that it becomes something exciting, terrifying, and singularly new.

Official Selection: Sundance Film Festival

• Country USA
• Running Time 98 minutes
• Format DCP
• Distributor Shudder
• Director Laura Moss
• Cast Marin Ireland, Judy Reyes, A.J. Lister, Breeda Wool
• Accessibility Assistive Listening, T-Coil, Descriptive Audio, Closed Captioning, Open Captioning

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