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.

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.

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)

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

Juni 2022

Sheffield International Documentary Film Festival, UK

Juni 2022