Health

In a small public hospital, a midwifery led by midwives accompanies births with a humanised model: putting women at the centre and respecting their rights. "Birth" is a realistic portrait of childbirth, and a choral account of obstetric violence and its terrible consequences told by: its victims, the UN (United Nations) and the WHO (World Health...

Despite their age gap and the fact that they are in a mental health institution, Lena and Carmen will find in each other the strength to begin to...

The COVID-19 pandemic changed the dynamics of communication,transportation, work and interaction of societies in Mexico and the world, but for the patients hospitalized by the virus, all possibilities of contact with their own were...

Madrid, after decreeing the state of alarm for the global pandemic of Covid-19. Experts in matters such as health, politics and the economy, create debate and awareness about its precedents, its management, its consequences and how this health crisis comes at a historical moment where the need to, not only address the collapse generated is crystallized for cuts to public health, but also to understand how neoliberalism decides that some lives are more important than...

Told through deeply personal stories in the trenches of the healthcare sector, “Birth Wars” chronicles a power struggle between doctors and midwives in Mexico about whose vision of childbirth should prevail. The film takes viewers on a journey into two worlds riven by prejudices and antagonism and explores how building bridges between these worlds could help save...

Global warming and pollution, as well as the increase of diseases and epidemics are closely linked to economic growth. The economic treaties that seek to regularize trade at the expense of the rights and freedoms of millions of workers, as well as the wars we are experiencing, for the control of natural resources, see what many call "collapse". Meanwhile, the mass media direct public opinion to other issues that are much more superfluous, which makes us suspect who obey. There are too many...

Sparked by backlash to a neo-Nazi rally and a stream of strict anti-immigrant laws passing in the state of Arizona, a group of activists organizes to build Phoenix Allies for Community Health, a unique free clinic serving undocumented immigrants. The film follows their journey, delves into the heart and history of the clinic, and chronicles the poignant stories of undocumented patients as well as their courage and...

Six Middle-Aged women are learning to live with chronic pain and the associated symptoms of Fibromyalgia (FMS), but nothing compares to living with the shame that comes with this gender specific illness. In a general context of suspicion they live misdiagnosed, overmedicated and accused of exaggerating and faking their disease, but when they meet Dr. Palop and his team of humanist doctors things start to change. Shedding light over the patriarchal structures still operating within spanish...

The documentary explores the issues women face when pregnant, the lack of resources makes that many of them reach birth with no medical monitoring at all along the process. Then at the hospital, those who cannot pay a private doctor, have to bribe the doctors and nurses in order to get a proffesional service. Romania is one of the poorest countries in EU which barely supports pregnant...

Not only there is drama in the dementia and the Alzheimer, also there are grandparents andgrandsons who take it with...

At Camp Winston, uniqueness truly is the norm. The camp accepts children with complex neurological disorders, that include Autism, Tourette Syndrome, and Asperger’s Syndrome. Filmed against the backdrop of a beautiful Muskoka, Canada summer, these children, so often branded as different, are given the opportunity to grow a little, have a bit of fun, learn, and be embraced for exactly who they...

In this animated short, young Winston, who suffers from chronic asthma, isn’t able to participate in the everyday activities of his peers and classmates. He copes with the predicament through his vivid imagination, with paper and...