Midwives (2022)
- Original title
- မေတ္တာသည်သာ
- Directed by
- Snow Hnin Ei Hlaing
- Genre
- documentary film
- Country
- Myanmar, Germany, United States, Canada
- Runtime
- 1h 32m
- Rated
- 15
- Rating
- 8.0 of 10 from 6 voters
- Elsewhere
- IMDb
The catalogue in 3D
The film shelves have a room of their own that you can walk around in. The cat behind the counter is the AI Catbot, and they pick real films from the same catalogue when you tell them what you feel like watching. Nothing is for sale, here or in there. Go in from here and this film is already out on the counter, with more like it waiting on the shelf next to it.
How it feels
In a village in western Myanmar, a Buddhist midwife trains a young Rohingya woman to deliver babies. The film follows their daily work against a backdrop of ethnic conflict.
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What happens
Midwives is a 2022 Burmese documentary film directed by Hnin Ei Hlaing, exploring the relationship between a Buddhist Bamar midwife and her Muslim Rohingya apprentice in a village in Rakhine State in western Myanmar. The film premiered at the 2022 Sundance Film Festival, where it won the Special Jury Prize for Excellence in Vérité Filmmaking. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)
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