Health for All Film Festival

Live streaming agenda

All the winners of the first edition of the Health for All Film Festival and some from our official selection will be showcased during various live events below to initiate a dialogue between their producers, actors, WHO experts and the audience! These lives will be available from the WHO Youtube channel and embedded below. You’ll have the chance to ask questions on our Youtube channel live chat.

Agenda

Saturday 10 October
Announcement of winner of Mental Health Film Prize 

5 pm CEST / The winner of the Mental Health Film Prize will be announced during the WHO-hosted Big Event for Mental Health on World Mental Health Day. 

The Big Event for Mental Health is WHO’s first global online advocacy event on mental health. During the event, which will be streamed from WHO’s social media channels, world leaders, mental health experts and celebrity guests will join WHO Director-General, Dr Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, to tell the world what we can all do to improve our mental health and how we can help make sure that quality mental health care is available to everyone who needs it.

Tuesday 13 October 2020
Storytelling and health: the example of Neglected Tropical Diseases (NTDs) 

11 am CEST / Online screening of « A Doctor’s Dream », a short film on sleeping sickness by the Drugs for Neglected Diseases initiative (DNDi) and our 2020 “Health for All” Film Festival Grand Prix inaugural winner for the video reports category (more information about our winners). Followed by a live discussion between Dr Nathalie Strub Wourgaft, NTDs Director at DNDi and Dr Mwelecele Ntuli Malecela, Director of WHO’s Department of Control of Neglected Tropical Diseases, on successes, future challenges, and the stories that inspire them on NTDs, medical research and access to medicines.

Friday 16 October
Challenging stigma about Mental Health

2 pm CEST / Online screening of « Knock on my Door » a short film about the mental health consequences of war by The Specialty Hospital from Jordan and our Mental Health Film Prize winner voted by the public. Followed by a live discussion between Dr Devora Kestel, Director of WHOs Department of Mental Health and Substance Use, and Dalia Sroji, Registered Nurse who is interpreting Sham in the winning film, a Syrian refugee affected by panic attacks.

Tuesday 20 October
How to tell strong stories about nurses and midwives?

5 pm CEST / Online screening of « War & Grace » the GRAND PRIX for this category about nurses and midwives, followed by a live discussion between Sonia Lowman, the Producer; Elizabeth Iro, WHO’s Chief Nursing Officer and Grace Lisio Tindilo, the midwife from South Sudan featured in this documentary film. “Nursing in the community”, the Special Mention from the Jury in this category will also be shown during the discussion.

The discussion will question how the wide public is aware of the daily reality of nurses and midwives and break down stereotypical views. It will also be about the wide range of work they have to do from prevention measures to providing treatment, being often the first and only point of care in their communities.

This event is part of our film festival tribute to the International Year of the Nurse and the Midwife. 

Awards ceremony of the Health for All Film Festival 2020

WHO received nearly 1300 entries for the inaugural film festival in 2020. These entries came from more than 110 countries and focused on a wide range of topics, such as the challenges of providing health-care in remote areas and countries in conflict, the realities of living and battling cancer, and the courage and resilience of nurses and midwives in the face of the most challenging of circumstances.