Healthcare
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The Cord
HEALTHCARE: In The Cord, Nolwenn Hervé follows a community worker helping pregnant women survive Venezuela’s shattered healthcare system, while a possible birth house shaped by Wayúu ancestral knowledge opens onto another vision of care.
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Cinematic ethics – and dilemmas
ETHICS: What can a festival's Inspiration Forum inspire us to do? We live in a world of representations, of pictures, war manipulating us as humans, and what about our relation to nature? Can an old philosopher show us a way?
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Let the young die
CONFLICT: Ville Suhonen's study of the cult of youth soldiers in inter-war Finland shows there's nothing new in the old sacrificing the young for their own aims.
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Dreaming of a change
HEALTHCARE: The relentless efforts to soothe patients' suffering amidst institutional challenges in a Paris hospital.
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«I don’t think a single military conflict can solve a problem»
INTERVIEW: Elisabeth Hoff, WHO's representative in Libya today, wondered why Norway got involved and dropped 700 bombs on the country in 2011: «It makes no sense at all.» For 30 years, Hoff has tried to save lives in war zones such as Afghanistan, Syria and Libya. How can a human endure so much suffering?
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Hospitals and their victims
HEALTHCARE: In Cannes' ACID section, the urgent question about the health system is pointed out.
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The long farewell to parents
AGEING: More people are getting older, but there are fewer to take care of them.
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At death’s door
HEALTHCARE: In the midst of the pandemic, a survey of an ordinary Bulgarian hospital draws attention to the country’s obsolete and underfunded healthcare system.
