Midwives (2022 film)

Midwives
Directed byHnin Ei Hlaing
Produced byMila Aung-Thwin
Edited by
  • Mila Aung-Thwin
  • Hnin Ei Hlaing
  • Ryan Mullins
Music by
Production
companies
EyeSteelFilm
AMA FILM
Snow Films
Release date
  • January 21, 2022 (2022-01-21)
(Sundance)
Running time
92 min.
CountryMyanmar
LanguagesBurmese, Rakhine

Midwives is a 2022 Burmese documentary film directed by Hnin Ei Hlaing, exploring the relationship between a Buddhist Bamar midwife and her Muslim Rohingya apprentice in a village in Rakhine State in western Myanmar. The film premiered at the 2022 Sundance Film Festival, where it won the Special Jury Prize for Excellence in Vérité Filmmaking.