Screening with closed captions on April 30 and open captions on May 1. There will be ASL interpretation for the intro and Q&A on April 30.
Inside makeshift tents on the US-Mexico border, across the resource-scarce areas of northern Nigeria, and in the encampment parks and shelters of Toronto, the high-risk neighbourhoods of Colombia, and the remote mountainous regions of Afghanistan, courageous midwives are risking their own safety and wellbeing to attend to expectant mothers. Through astounding access to these precarious environments and to the dedicated women working with scant resources and minimal support, director Nance Ackerman captures the ever-evolving risks and high stakes of each place as the midwives navigate care with traditional medicine and enduring native healing practices. A triumph of expansive, urgent storytelling with a global focus, The Delivery Line makes visible the undervalued work of some of the most compassionate people working in the direst of circumstances and foregrounds the profound sense of purpose and joy they derive from their critical, lifesaving work. Mariam Zaidi