Short film about pregnancy and birth around the world

Directed by Goran Kapetanovic · Starring Malin Crépin, Mukundente Fiona, Assad Kasasa, Marie Francoise Mukayiranga · 2012

In snowbound Kiruna, a woman drives herself to hospital to give birth. In sunlit Kigali, another woman is carried there on a stretcher. Two single mothers-to-be, thousands of miles apart, share the same fear.

Two births on opposite ends of the world, cut together into one tense, deeply human portrait of motherhood.

In the midst of frost and snow, a woman is driving her way to the hospital in Kiruna, the northernmost city of Sweden. Under the scorching sunlight of Kigali, Rwanda, another woman is being carried to the hospital on a s

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