Midwives

Panorama

"Léa Fehner’s fiction film thrusts two young newly qualified midwives into the chaos of a profession under pressure and treading a very fine line between joy and tragedy
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Cineuropa
  • Archive - Festival 39
  • Director: Léa Fehner
  • France 20223
  • 100 minutes
  • French
  • Subtitles in Hebrew, English

Sofia and Louise are two midwives starting out their careers after five years of training. They soon find themselves faced with the challenges of daily hospital life. Friends for life against all odds, they dive headlong into this world where they're confronted with fundamental situations: birth, motherhood and sometimes death. Will their friendship and vocation withstand such a storm?

Filmmaker Léa Fehner presents a sensitive and searing exposé of an underfinanced health system, and the many facets of a key profession that is too often undervalued. Capturing moments large and small with a camera that, like the midwives, rarely pauses, the director brings us closer to the daily life of the entire staff.

Filmography: Ogres (2022), Silent Voices (2016).

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  • Director Léa Fehner
  • Production Grégoire Debailly
  • Script Léa Fehner, Catherine Paillé
  • Cinematography Jacques Girault
  • Editing Julien Chigot
  • Music José Fehner
  • Festivals Berlin (Panorama Prize of the Ecumenical Jury), Karlovy Vary
  • Actors Khadia Kouyaté, Héloïse Janjaud, Myriem Akheddiou, Quentin Vernede, Tarik Kariouh
  • Source Lev Cinema