Capturing A Short Life is a beautiful, intimate and life-affirming documentary about families dealing with the loss of a child in the first few months of life. For some, the idea of even talking about infant deaths may seem disrespectful but this film gently re-examines that taboo. It explores how critical it is for parents and family to grieve and acknowledge these brief fragile lives, and how impossible it is to forget them.

In North America every year, tens of thousands of families have to say goodbye to children they’ve only just met, and millions more lose babies to miscarriage or stillbirth. When a baby dies, it is not only an infant that is lost, but a toddler, a child, a teenager and an adult. An entire lifetime, an entire future, disappears. What remains is an intense, impossible few moments to say hello and goodbye.

With candid commentary from grieving parents, nurses, counsellors and other support workers, Capturing A Short Life is not a film about death, it is a film about acknowledging, celebrating, and honouring even the briefest of lives.