The planet’s busiest maternity hospital is located in one of its poorest and most populous countries: the Philippines. There, poor women face devastating consequences as their country struggles with reproductive health policy and the politics of conservative Catholic ideologies.
Direction
Diaz's fly-on-wall intimacy never feels exploitative.
Editing
Juxtaposes joy and devastation with surgical precision.
Production
Access to chaos that feels almost impossible to get.
Director
Ramona S. Diaz
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Filmed during Duterte's war on drugs, the hospital becomes a microcosm of state failure toward the poor.
Diaz spent months building trust; staff and patients eventually stopped performing for cameras, revealing bureaucratic cruelty in real-time.
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