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

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)

Trailer

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