Films
The Blood of YingZhou District:
Oscar winner for 2006 Best Documentary Short. A year in the life of children in the remote villages of Anhui Province, China, who have lost their parents to AIDS. Traditional obligations to family and village collide with terror of the disease.
A timely examination of human values and the health issues that affect us all, ¡Salud! looks at the curious case of Cuba, a cash-strapped country with what the BBC calls 'one of the world's best health systems.' From the shores of Africa to the Americas, !Salud! hits the road with some of the 28,000 Cuban health professionals serving in 68 countries, and explores the hearts and minds of international medical students in Cuba -- now numbering 30,000, including nearly 100 from the USA. Their stories plus testimony from experts around the world bring home the competing agendas that mark the battle for global health—and the complex realities confronting the movement to make health care everyone's birth right.
Matti per il calcio (Mad about Football): Documentary film about mental health and the role of Italy’s favourite obsession, football, in bringing together a group of men.
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Sari’s Mother: Filmed in Iraq over a period of one year, SARI’S MOTHER is a short documentary that follows the struggle of an Iraqi mother to help for her 10-year-old son, Sari, who is dying of AIDS.
The Zegum family lives in the restive Mahmudiyah area of central Iraq. They make their living by selling milk and butter, farming land rented from their neighbors. As the film opens US military helicopters are flying low over their fields. Sari’s mother administers injections to her son, whose condition is gradually deteriorating as his immune system fails. She seeks help in Baghdad’s hospitals and ministries, but discovers that the Iraqi healthcare system is in even worse condition under US occupation than before the war.
Dying to Live: Shown here with commentary by filmmaker Amineh Ayyad.
Dying to Live is a documentary by Palestinian filmmaker Amineh Ayyad. Shot in Palestine during the Israeli incursion in 2002, Dying to Live is a film about the state of health and health care available to long-term refugees living under ongoing siege and occupation. Amineh documented human rights violations and challenges health care personnel face under siege and curfew. Covering issues of mental health, maternal-child health and more, this film will open eyes about the chronic desperation of the people, and the efforts being made to bring health to them