HER DOCS FORUM
MIDWIVES
Watchable. The pregnant woman's belly at childbirth looks disgusting, as does the infant being born - I'm lucky to be watching the documentary on a small screen. Stunning aerial shots of Myanmar, with temples on mountain tops are a welcome variety in the pictures. The documentary's not that much about midwifery, as it is about daily lives of the Muslim minority in Myanmar: shabby housing, romantic Bollywood-like songs in the Rakhine movies they watch in their own language, their dreams: to see a city, to be single. Politics, with systemic discrimination, appears in the background, mainly through pejorative name-calling and in what the protagonists say, little is shown in the footage of political activists, all violence is only mentioned verbally so it doesn't affect the viewer much, especially one familiar with the issue.
Reviewed from the organizers' screener, cinematic reception might differ.
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