DAVIDE PRETI

filmmaker & visual journalist

THE MOTHER’S VALLEY

In Anabah, Afghanistan’s Panshir valley, the birth rate is very high, around 6 children per family. This is the story of Anabah Surgical and Paediatric Centre published on Corriere della Sera.

Scripted, directed and edited by Davide Preti

June 2018

A Russian tank, spoils of the 80s war, in the square of the Ahmad Massoud’s mauseoleum. The Panjshir’s lion was assassinated on September 9, 2001
Inside the operation theater during an emergency c-delivery
A boy accompanied by his grandfather awaits the birth of his little brother outside the hospital
A newborn baby is weighed. Inside Anabah hospital there are around 700 births per month
A nurse while dressing a newborn baby
A mother controls her baby in the neonatal intensive care unit.
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