Director
Snow Hnin Ei Hlaing
Run Time
91 mins
Release Year
2022
Country of Origin
Myanmar, Germany, Canada
Language
Rohingya, Rakhine, Burmese
Director of Photography: Soe Kyaw Htin Tun
Exec Producer:
Editor: Mila Aung-Thwin, Ryan Mullins, Snow Hnin Ei Hlaing
Produced by: Bob Moore, Ulla Lehmann, Mila Aung-Thwin, Snow Hnin Ei Hlaing
Music: Olivier Alary, Johannes Malfatti
Sound Production: Andreas Mühlschlegel
Midwives
Part of the The Conversation Strand
With a fierce no-nonsense attitude Hla, who is Buddhist, runs her makeshift maternity clinic, while her apprentice Nyo Nyo, a Rohingya Muslim, finds her ambition butting up against her lack of medical training. Filmed over five years of intense political turbulence, with the oppression of Rohingya people a constant presence, this intimate documentary is a tender and absorbing portrait of two messy, resilient, complex women, trying to get along and support mothers in their moment of need. [15]