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Midwives
Midwives chronicles two women who run a makeshift medical clinic in a region torn apart by violent ethnic divisions. Hla, the owner, is a Buddhist in western Myanmar, where the Rohingya, a Muslim minority, are persecuted and denied basic rights. Nyo Nyo is a Muslim and an apprentice. Encouraged and challenged by Hla, Nyo Nyo is determined to become a steady health care provider for her people.

Watch the broadcast premiere of Midwives on the award-winning television series POV on November 21st at 10:00 p.m. ET (check local listings) on PBS, pbs.org, and the PBS Video app.
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  • “Security Considerations on this Film Were Everywhere, All the Time”: Snow Hnin Ei Hlaing on Her Sundance-Debuting doc Midwives - Interview in Filmmaker Magazine
     
  • Sundance First Look: Heroines Of ‘Midwives’ Try To Bridge Deadly Ethnic-Religious Divide In Myanmar - Review in Deadline
     
  • “A stirring, incisive doc about a Buddhist and a Muslim defying Myanmar’s bitter ethnic divisions” - Review in TimeOut
     
  • “A Muslim and a Buddhist grapple with childbirth in strife-torn Myanmar” - Review in The Guardian
     
  • “Two women working together as midwives in an isolated village in Myanmar’s Rakhine state” - Review in Film Threat
Director Snow Hnin Ei Hlaing Accepts the World Cinema Documentary Special Jury Award: Excellence in Verité Filmmaking
“This film is not only about the Rohingya conflict, but my country’s situation. I hope that democracy can be restored there. [February 1, 2022 was] the one-year anniversary of the military coup. People in Myanmar cannot go out to protest... So we will keep fighting and hope to bring back people-power in the very near future." -Snow Hnin Ei Hlaing, Filmmaker
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