The everyday life of midwives takes place on the threshold where new life is born and sometimes life fades away. In her documentary film “Hebammen – Auf die Welt kommen” , Leila Kühni (photo above) shows various midwives accompanying couples during pregnancy, birth and the postpartum period without judgement.
With Helena Bellwald, the film delves into the world of home birth. For her, birth is something natural. It works best when there is as little intervention as possible.
Lucia Mikeler is an attending midwife and goes to the hospital with the women for the birth. For her, the woman’s self-determination is paramount.
And Jeanette Gröbli, Sara Lehner and their team show the busy hospital routine. They accompany the women through the existential experience of childbirth with routine and empathy.
The film gives an intimate insight into the most natural thing in human history. It still fascinates us today, on the one hand as a miracle, on the other as a highly risky medical event.
Only rarely have I experienced so much humanity and love in the portrayal of a professional and working day in a film as here. (Hanspeter Stalder: der-andere-film.ch)
Leila Kühni is an alumni of the Masterschool Documentary Film of the Filmwerkstatt Münster with Horst Herz and has developed her first documentary film about a librarian in the Masterschool.
Monday, 23 October 2023 | Schloßtheater | 20:00 h
Leila Kühni is coming to Münster to present her film in person!
Leila Kühni, born in 1970, lives and works in Bern and is the mother of a daughter. She studied art history and sociology at the University of Bern. After several years of learning and training in the field of film, she founded the film collective Einhornfilm. She has been making independent documentaries and commissioned films on social and cultural topics since 2007.
