Global Health Film Festival 2017

Sat 9 Dec 2017, 18:15

This feature length documentary tells the groundbreaking story of Simon Fitzmaurice, a talented Irish Filmmaker living with Motor Neurone Disease, as he directs his first feature with only his eyes.

Sat 9 Dec 2017, 18:00

The Children of the Noon deals with the universal subject of life.

Sat 9 Dec 2017, 15:30

Since the beginning of the civil war in Syria, around four million Syrians have had to abandon their country, fleeing violence. Over half of them are children. 

Sat 9 Dec 2017, 13:45

The original research was controversial, but the findings revealed the most important public health findings of a generation.

Sat 9 Dec 2017, 13:35

In their remote home in the North Atlantic the Faroe Islanders have always eaten what nature could provide, proud to put local food on the table.

Sat 9 Dec 2017

Devastated by 20 years of violence, the eastern part of The Democratic Republic of Congo is often referred to as "the worst place in the world to be a woman."

Sat 9 Dec 2017, 11:40

Destination Unknown blends intimate testimony with immersive archive to bring the stories of twelve Holocaust survivors to the screen.

Sat 9 Dec 2017, 9:30

Thirty years ago, as much of the world was being ravaged by diseases like AIDS and tuberculosis, three remarkable people, barely out of their teens, came together in a squatter settlement in Haiti.

Sat 9 Dec 2017, 9:30

National Bird follows the harrowing journey of three U.S. military veteran whistle-blowers determined to break the silence surrounding America’s secret drone war. 

Fri 8 Dec 2017, 18:00

Pili lives in rural Tanzania, working in the fields for less than $1 a day to feed her two children and struggling to manage her HIV-positive status in secret.

Fri 8 Dec 2017, 18:00

Twenty-eight-year-old Jennifer Brea is working on her PhD at Harvard, months away from marrying the love of her life, when she gets a mysterious fever, leaving her bedridden and looking for answers

Fri 8 Dec 2017, 15:45

An intimate portrait of a state-run hospital in one of Nepal’s most remote and poorest districts of Kalikot in West Nepal

Fri 8 –Sat 9 Dec 2017

What if there were an algorithm for saving the most lives?

Fri 8 Dec 2017, 13:50

John Pilger’s 60th film and first since 2013’s Utopia is his most urgent work to date and is both a warning and an inspiring story of resistance

Fri 8 Dec 2017, 13:15

Using microscopic footage, harrowing personal stories, and expert insights, Resistance clarifies the problem of antibiotic resistance, how we got to this point, and what we can do to turn the tide

Fri 8 Dec 2017, 13:00

The Age of Consequences investigates the impacts of climate change, resource scarcity, migration, and conflict through the lens of US national security and global stability

Fri 8 Dec 2017, 10:00

Over the last five years Kisilu, a smallholder farmer in Kenya, has used his camera to capture the life of his family, his village and the impacts of climate change.

Fri 8 Dec 2017, 10:00

In their quest for truth, these young women explore the path to peace and reconciliation and what role it plays in the lives of the survivors

Fri 8 Dec 2017, 9:45

Unseen Enemy is an essential exploration of the reasons why we are experiencing a rash of diseases that were once only outbreaks, but have now become full-blown epidemics.

Fri 8 –Sat 9 Dec 2017

Passes are the best and most cost-effective way for you to experience the Global Health Film Festival and provide access to special passholder-only events and screenings.