original title:
Tempo d’attesa
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country:
Italy
year:
2023
film run:
75'
format:
colour
status:
Ready (09/11/2023)
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A group of women meet once a week with Teresa, a midwife, an experienced and revolutionary woman, who guides and supports them during pregnancy. They discuss the birth of the child they are carrying in their wombs and the birth of themselves as new mothers.
Director's statement
Italy is the European country with the highest number of C sections, additionally women during the labour and birth are often victims of obstetrical violence (meaning those practices on the woman’s body not motivated by a clinical need but dictated by habits coming from an inadequate organization and lack of updated protocols that have repercussions on both the mother and the baby).
Giving birth was the most incredible and rewarding experience of my life and I would like other women to experience this event with the same awareness. The film is intended to be a reflection on birth as a positive act, in which men and women try together to consider this time as an opportunity of growth…bellies grow, bodies gradually change and so the topics.