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Healers, Midwives, Witches

Aysila Kose

Healers, Midwives, Witches is an experimental documentary that follows the connections between village midwives and the figures of healers and witches found in historical archives. Moving between archival engravings from London and intimate conversations with the filmmaker’s grandmother and great-aunt, both former village midwives in rural southeast Turkey, the film brings together different times and places into a shared story. Moving between archives and oral histories, the film traces how similar stories appear again and again across centuries and geographies. Gestures, rituals, and ways of caring pass between images and voices, showing how practices once called witchcraft continue through women’s embodiment and memory. Through a poetic and associative structure, the film looks at the witch not as a myth, but as a figure shaped by fear, control, and misogyny, and connects this history to forms of survival, inheritance, and resistance carried by women today.

Country: Turkey

Time: 20

Year: 2025

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