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1) Birth Wars
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Told through deeply personal stories in the trenches of the healthcare sector, “BIRTH WARS” chronicles a power struggle between doctors and midwives in Mexico about whose vision of childbirth should prevail. The film takes viewers on a journey into two worlds riven by prejudices and antagonism and explores how building bridges between these worlds could help save lives.
2) Fly So Far
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As states in the U.S. enact abortion bans, FLY SO FAR serves as a grave warning of how far government control of women’s bodies can go. This brave film from Swiss-Salvadorean filmmaker Celina Escher is set in El Salvador, a country with some of the most restrictive abortion laws in the world, including the criminalization of those who experience miscarriages and other obstetric emergencies. The narrative centers on Teodora Vásquez, who was in the...
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Would you break the law to save a mother's life? At a public hospital in Nicaragua, this is the ethical dilemma that faces obstetrician Dr. Carla Cerrato on a routine basis. It is one of only five countries in the world to ban abortion outright - even in cases of rape, incest, and likely maternal fatality. As hapless young mothers implore her help, and Carla's work becomes increasingly personal, the devastating impact of this law is made horrifyingly...
4) Vicenta
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Vicenta is in her early fifties and lives in a tin and wood house in the deep suburbs of Buenos Aires. She is poor, illiterate and although it seems she has everything to lose, Vicenta starts a fight against the Argentine State in pursuit of what she believes is fair: the legal interruption of her daughter’s pregnancy.
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"Hace muchos, muchos años, en un momento en que a las mujeres no se les permitía estudiar, y menos trabajar en lo que deseaban, un médico fue denunciado injustamente por seducir a sus pacientes. A punto de ser declarado culpable, el muchacho de pelo raro se arrancó la barba y el bigote que cubrían su cara y descubrío ante todos que era, en realidad, una mujer. Así tuvo que disfrazarse Agnódice, esta valiente joven ateniense, para lograr ejercer...
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"Alexander Randall, único heredero del conde de Daventry, sabe que debe encontrar una esposa para engendrar un heredero. La prometida ideal sería una joven dócil y de buena familia, pero en su mente y corazón sólo hay lugar para Julia Bancroft, la comadrona del pueblo, que además de ser viuda y tener un fuerte carácter, esconde un oscuro secreto."--P. [4] of cover.
A stirring, sensual story of a rebellious nobleman drawn to a lovely widow...
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