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Born in Bethlehem: Between Checkpoints and the Delivery Room in the West Bank
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Born in Bethlehem: Between Checkpoints and the Delivery Room in the West Bank

84 MIN · EN · STATUS: [ STREAMING ]
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Holy Family Hospital in Bethlehem has delivered more than 100,000 babies since 1990, treating every mother who arrives regardless of religion, origin, or ability to pay. This film follows the doctors, midwives, and patients who keep it running in a territory defined by checkpoints and roadblocks. Gynecologist Dana Amro leaves home before dawn to beat delays at Israeli checkpoints on her commute to work, while senior midwife Lorette Farah Khalil Al-Allam, twenty-seven years on the job, talks through the thousands of births she has attended. The cameras also follow Khuloud Obayat, a widow raising her newborn son Omar alone after losing her husband shortly before his birth, and a mobile medical team that drives out to villages around Bethlehem to reach women who cannot make it to the hospital at all. Interviews with staff and patients sit alongside footage of deliveries, hospital corridors, and the roads and checkpoints that shape every patient's journey to get there. The film's focus stays narrow and specific: one hospital, run by the Order of Malta, functioning as a fixed point of care inside a region where almost nothing else is stable.