Motherland Afghanistan [videorecording] / a film by Sedika Mojadidi ; director, Sedika Mojadidi ; producers, Catherine Gund, Sedika Mojadidi, Jenny Raskin ; a co-production of Aubin Pictures, Inc. and the Independent Television Service (ITVS).

[Brooklyn, N.Y.] : First Run/Icarus Films, 2005.

1 videodisc (73 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.

Afghanistan today has the second highest maternal and infant mortality rates in the world. Filmmaker Sedika Mojadidi reveals the extent of this tragedy by documenting the 2003 return to Afghanistan of her father, Dr. Qudrat Mojadidi (an OB/GYN who emigrated to the U.S. in 1972) as he attempts to rehabilitate Kabul's Rabia Balkhi Hospital with the promised support of the U.S. Dept. of Health and Human Services. The film focuses on Dr. Mojadidi's emergency treatment of three Afghan women: Kakujan, who had received inadequate care from a midwife during a home birth; Sitara, who had traveled far to receive treatment after prolonged obstructed labor in her remote village; and Sharifa, who Dr. Mojadidi discovered was pregnant with a second twin after the first baby had died.

Images / Video & Film

English; Persian

March 15, 2007

Cinematographers, Erica Soehngen, Helen Lee ; editor, Roger Shulte ; composer, Barney MCall.

Dr. Qudrat Mojadidi, Dr. Nafisa Mojadidi.

DVD-R.

Documentary films.