Waiting Area (film)
| Movie | |
|---|---|
| Original title | Waiting area |
| Country of production | Germany |
| original language | German |
| Publishing year | 2012 |
| length | 67 minutes |
| Rod | |
| Director | Nora Tschirner , Natalie Beer |
| production | Nora Tschirner, Natalie Beer |
| camera | Tanja Haring |
| cut | Heike Parplies |
Waiting Area is a German documentary film from 2012. Directed by the director Natalie Beer and the German actress Nora Tschirner , who made her directorial debut with it.
content
The term “Waiting Area” is the name of a medical facility in which women from remote villages in Ethiopia wait for the birth in the last week of pregnancy. The documentation denounces the lack of medical care and the patriarchal society in the region and shows the challenges pregnancy is for the women living there.
The film was shot in the southwest and east of Ethiopia and tells the documentary story of four young Ethiopian women during and sometimes after their pregnancy: Kediga, Fatya, Meseret and Misra. Miscarriages or health problems are common in the region due to the lack of medical care. For example, many women suffer from painful fistulas as a result of a complicated birth .
Kediga, who suffered from such fistulas for a long time, has now made it her business to educate other women about the causes of the disease and preventive measures. Fatya goes to school, for which she has to go through great hardship. She hopes to give her son a better life. Meseret is a pregnant woman whose delivery is the dramatic climax of the film. The fourth woman is young Misra who has fistulas and urgently needs an operation.
background
The premiere of the film took place in April 2013 in Berlin. Although the film denounces the grievances in Ethiopia, according to Tschirner it should have a "lively" tone.
Reviews
“Nora Tschirner and Natalie Beer do not comment. There is no voice over explaining the situation in Ethiopia to us. The protagonists take on this task throughout, so that the overall picture is gradually put together like a puzzle for the viewer. But this leaves room for your own considerations and reflections. Tschirner and Beer also refrain from dramatizing their pictures through music. They don't stage the events, they just observe and let us be part of them. "
Web links
- Waiting Area in theInternet Movie Database(English)
- Waiting area at filmportal.de
Individual evidence
- ↑ Baby-Bauch-Tschirner and her directorial debut. April 22, 2013, accessed January 7, 2015 .
- ↑ Waiting Area - (K) A difficult birth film review on kino-zeit.de, accessed on July 26, 2017.