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providing videos for midwives, doctors, childbirth educators and expectant parents


"Giving Birth and Being Born"

is a film about the physiology of childbirth by Karin Berghammer (midwife and filmmaker) aims at sensitizing both health care professionals and patients to currently available obstetric methods and to provide targeted and state-of-the-art education and information on various aspects of labor and delivery.

Length: 42min.
VHS copies available in PAL (European and Australian format) as well as in NTSC
(US &Japanese format)

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„midwives - a global perspective on childbirth“

is a documentary in which
midwives from all continents tell about their practice, their experiences and their extremely differing concepts within one and the same occupation. The film draws a clear picture of the status of women in different societies.
Length :62 min.
Published : Austria 2003

Worldpremiere : march 28, 2003
Diagonale, festival of the austrian film, Graz

DVD copies available in PAL
VHS copies available in PAL
(European and Australian format)
as well as in NTSC
(US &Japanese format)

tell me more: