While Jonathan's Miracle Feet and Nurses Facing COVID both finish on a relatively positive note, One in 36 Million: Story of Childhood Lead Poisoning in Bangladesh, ends much more ambiguously. But her story is a potent reminder of the risks faced by frontline health-care workers during the pandemic.
Nurses in Brazil talk about the brutal conditions in which they were forced to work at the height of the pandemic - long hours in overcrowded hospitals, all while watching patient after patient die.ĭuring the film's most powerful moment, Graça Athayde, who contracted the disease while treating patients, calls her coworkers to tell them she is at home, unable to find treatment, "just waiting for death to come."Īthayde survived. The Brazilian film Nurses Facing COVID ( Na Lihna de Frente) is the Grand Prix winner in the Health Emergencies category. That story of hope and resilience earned the top prize in the Universal Health Coverage category. Others are from independent filmmakers.Īt the end of Jonathan's Miracle Feet, Jonathan is fully healed, happy and playing soccer with other kids his age. Some of the films are submitted by nonprofit groups. Four smaller awards highlight the best films related to climate change and health, sexual and reproductive health, best student film and best very short film. Three "Grand Prix" awards are given in the categories of Universal Health Coverage, Health Emergencies and Better Health and Well-being. In each year of the competition, the festival has received over a thousand submissions. The short films are all between three and eight minutes long, sorted into several award categories. The Health for All Film Festival, now in its fourth year, is meant to encourage filmmakers from around the world to use their skills for the purpose of health communication. "I think this film is representing well what we look for in the festival." "It is very symbolic of a situation which is global and which is not only for the African region," says Gilles Reboux, who was the Film Festival Lead overseeing the competition. That's the true story of Jonathan's Miracle Feet - one of the winners in the World Health Organization's annual Health for All Film Festival. That is, until a relative heard a radio report about a special clinic, leading the family to travel across the country to get treatment for Jonathan. His father turned to prayer and his mother to an herbal healer. His twin died as a baby, and his parents were told Jonathan may never walk like other children. Jonathan and his twin brother were born in Sierra Leone with clubfeet.
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