midwives
A DOCUMENTARY BY SNOW HNIN EI HLAING
Completed
logline
Two midwives, one Buddhist and one Muslim, defy strict ethnic divisions to work side by side in a makeshift clinic in western Myanmar, providing medical services to the Rohingya of Rakhine State. Over five years we witness their struggles, hopes and dreams amidst an environment of ever-increasing chaos and violence.
info
AUTHOR, DIRECTOR Snow Hnin Ei Hlaing
PRODUCTION AMA FILM, EyeSteelFilm (Canada), Snow Films (Myanmar)
FUNDS MFG Filmförderung Baden-Württemberg, Nika Media, Alba Collis, InMaat Productions, Chicken & Egg Pictures, Sundance Institute, Tribeca Film Institute, Doha Film Institute, Brot für die Welt, Québec Production Services Tax Credit, The Great Chicago Pitch
PITCH AWARDS Pitch award for the best Asian project (Docs Port Incheon), First Look program’s first prize (Hot Docs Toronto)
BROADCASTER PBS/POV
WORLD SALES Dogwoof
FORMAT HD
END FORMAT DCP
LENGTH 91/82 Min.
AWARDS
Asian Competition Grand Prize
(DMZ International Documentary Film Festival 2022)
Next Award
(DMZ International Documentary Film Festival 2022)
World Cinema Documentary Special Jury Award for Excellence in Vérité Filmmaking
(Sundance Film Festival 2022)
Vaclav Havel Award
(One World International Human Rights Documentary Film Festival Prague 2022)
Jury Award for the Best Documentary
(Indie Meme FF, Austin 2022)
festivals
Sundance FF
Jan 2022
Big Sky FF, Montana
Feb 2022
CPH:DOX, Copenhagen
March/April 2022
One World Int'l Human Rights Film Festival, Prague
March/April 2022
Cleveland FF
March/April 2022
Women+Film Festival, Vermont
April 2022
Indie Meme FF, Austin
April 2022
San Francisco FF
April/May 2022
Hot Docs, Toronto
April/May 2022
DokFest Munich
May 2022
Minneapolis St Paul Int. Film Festival
May 2022
Docs Against Gravity, Poland
May 2022
Human Rights Watch FF, New York
May 2022
DocAviv, Tel Aviv
May/June 2022
Sydney Film Festival, Australia
June 2022
Sheffield International Documentary Film Festival, UK
June 2022
New Zealand international Film Festival, New Zealand
July/August 2022
Lemesos In'It Documentary Festival, Cyprus
August 2022
Edinburgh International Film Festival, UK
August 2022
Sundance Asia, Indonesia
August 2022
DMZ Docs, South Korea
September 2022
Zurich Film Festival, Switzerland
September/October 2022
Doc Lounge, Schweden, Finland
2022
Independent FilmFest Osnabrück, Germany
October 2022
BaliMakarya Film Festival, Indonesia
October 2022
Bergen IFF, Norway
October 2022
Human Rights Film Festival, Berlin
October 2022
FilmFest FrauenWelten, Berlin
October 2022
Cambridge Film Festival, UK
October 2022
Hawaii IFF, USA
November 2022
Aldeburgh Documentary Festival, UK
November 2022
Braunschweig IFF
November 2022
Budapest International Documentary Festival, Hungary
November 2022
IDFA - Best of Fests, Netherlands
November 2022