AMONG US WOMEN Trailer – 2022 New African Film Festival

U.S. Premiere  AMONG US WOMEN [UNTER UNS FRAUEN]  The first feature-length documentary by German director Sarah Noa Bozenhardt and Ethiopian filmmaker Daniel Abate Tilahun follows Hulu Endeshaw, a young Ethiopian farmer who is awaiting the birth of her fourth child and finds herself caught between the modern and traditional systems of midwifery in place in her rural village of Megendi. On one hand, she regularly attends checkups at the local health center, where staff are fighting high maternal mortality rates. On the other, Hulu is apprehensive of a system in which she feels unheard and turns to the traditional midwife Endal Gedif for support and comfort. Surrounded by many varying female perspectives, Hulu wrestles with the roles she is expected to play as a mother, a wife and a woman. To unravel her personal wants and needs, she takes the film's narrative into her own hands, exploring her burning past and her uncertain future. Both because of her fellow women and despite them, Hulu holds onto the desire to define her own path, and gradually unveils the secrets she has kept close to her chest. (Note adapted from AG DOK — the German Documentary Association.) Winner, Honorable Mention: Silver Dove, 2021DOK Leipzig. DIR/SCR Sarah Noa Bozenhardt; DIR Daniel Abate Tilahun; PROD Sonja Kilbertus. Ethiopia/Germany, 2021, color, 92 min. In English and Amharic with English subtitles. NOT RATED  For the full lineup and to purchase films and passes, visit: https://bit.ly/NAFF2022 CONNECT WITH AFI SILVER: http://AFI.com/Silver​ Twitter: @AFISilver FB & IG: @afisilvertheatre Podcast: bit.ly/SilverStreams #NewAfricanFilmFestival​ #AFISilverTheatre​ #FilmFestival​ #AfricanCinema