Interview with Matt Jackson by Khalid Ali, Film and Media Correspondent In this podcast Mr Matt Jackson, director of the UK United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA) talks about current health inequalities that still face girls and women on a global scale. He revists the vision and programme of action of the International Conference on Population […]
Category: Film and Media
Indifference Kills
‘Colectiv’ directed by Alexander Nanau (Romania, Luxemburg 2019) ‘Colectiv’ opens the 24th edition of London Human Rights Watch Film Festival (LHRWFF) on 12 March 2020, https://ff.hrw.org/london Review by Khalid Ali, film and media correspondent ‘Medical Humanities’ online blogs In its 24th edition the London Human Rights Watch Film Festival (LFFHRW) comes back to the UK […]
“Normality is a Paved Road Comfortable to Walk But No Flowers Grow On It”
—Vincent Van Gogh ‘VOLARE’, Gabriele Salvatores (Italy, 2019) screening at the Italian Film Festival in London, Friday 6th March 2020 Film Review by Franco Ferrarini, gastroenterologist and film reviewer Vincent (Giulio Pranno), a sixteen-year-old boy affected by Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD), lives with his mother Elena (Valeria Golino) and her companion Mario (Diego Abatantuono) confined […]
Mutual Agents of Change
Film Review by Professor Robert Abrams, Weill Cornell Medicine, New York Stolen Days (Il Ladro di Giorni), directed by Guido Lombardi (Italy 2019). Showing on Thursday 5th March in ‘Cinema made in Italy’, London. Stolen Days (Il Ladro di Giorni) can be seen as the story of a boy on the cusp of adolescence, […]
‘Addio Infanzia’, Farewell Childhood
‘Magari’ (If only) directed by Ginevra Elkann (Italy 2019) opening the Italian Film Festival in London, 4th– 9th March 2020, www.institutfrancais.org.uk/cinema-italy Film Review by Khalid Ali, Film and media correspondent, Medical Humanities A seminal survey from the Italian Society of Paediatrics exploring the life style of more than 11,000 adolescents showed that ‘one in five […]
The Essence of Medicine
Oli Otya? (“Hello?”): Life and Loss in Rural Uganda, directed by Lucy Bruell (USA, 2019) Review by Professor Robert Abrams, Weill Cornell Medicine, New York In the opening scenes of Oli Otya?, subtitles explain that a team of nurses from St. Francis Naggalama, a rural hospital in central Uganda, travels to outlying areas to treat […]
A Legacy of Collateral Suffering
Review of Amá (USA, 2018), directed by Lorna Tucker, and produced by Bullfrog Films Written by Professor Robert Abrams, Weill Cornell Medicine Amá, a powerful and disturbing documentary, tells the hitherto little-known story of the systematic relocation and involuntary sterilization of Native American women in the United States between 1960 and 1980. In a moving […]
Who Am I To Stop It
A documentary film on isolation, art, and transformation after brain injury directed by Cheryl Green and Cynthia Lopez (USA, 2016) Review by Karina Sturm, filmmaker and journalist Who Am I To Stop It is a feature-length documentary portraying three artists in the US who live with brain injuries by following them through their lives and […]
Stories of Guilt and Redemption: The Cinema of Atom Egoyan
Interview by Khalid Ali In this podcast Dr Khalid Ali talks to acclaimed Canadian director Atom Egoyan at the 41st edition of the Cairo International Film Festival (CIFF) where Egoyan’s latest film ‘Guest of honour’ screened. Egoyan reflects on prominent themes in his films such as isolation, estrangement and the alienation of human beings, and […]
Khalid Ali in Conversation with Filmmaker Damon Gameau
Interview by Khalid Ali In this podcast, award-winning Australian film maker Damon Gameau talks about his new film 2040, which explores what the future could look like by the year 2040 if we embraced solutions that are currently available to improve the planet and focusing on climate, economics, technology, civil society, agriculture, and sustainability. Damon […]