ARREST THE MIDWIFE

NYC PREMIERE Amid a looming maternal health crisis and vanishing reproductive freedom, the government interferes in the traditional practice of midwifery in a rural Mennonite community. When three midwives are arrested, the usually sequestered women decide to reclaim their rights by challenging the state’s decision. A little-known resistance filmed with extraordinary access to a reticent community tells us how the erosion of women’s rights is ever-pervasive, and the only way out is through intersectionality. – Bedatri D. Choudhury

The first screening will be followed by a Q&A with director/producer Elaine Epstein and film participants Elizabeth Catlin, Kathleen Zimmerman, and others.