Country
France
Production Year
2023
Running Time
100
Genre
Drama
Age
13+
women, humanity, work/labour | Blood, Birth Scene
After five (5) years of learning the profession of a midwife, “the most beautiful job in the world,” Louise and Sofia are finally entering working life and taking on huge responsibilities in a world where, at a frenetic pace, they handle birth, motherhood, and sometimes death. Will their vocation resist such a storm?
Director
Léa Fehner
Born on 15 October 1981 in France, Léa Fehner was raised in big-top touring theater. She studied film and screenwriting at France’s national film school, La fémis. As a student there, she did two apprenticeships abroad, one at the Film Center of Bamako and the other in Cambodia with director Rithy Panh. Her first film, Silent Voice, was selected at numerous festivals, notably the 2009 Mostra de Venise and the Deauville American Film Festival. It won the Louis Delluc Prize for Best First Film and was nominated for a César Award. Her second feature, Les Ogres, garnered a prize at the Festival of Rotterdam in 2016. Since then, she has collaborated on the scripts of several films, including Woman at Sea by Dinara Drukarova, selected at the 2022 San Sebastian Film Festival. Midwives is her third film.
