Medical Humanities  and the Arts Presents the 26th UNAFF (United Nations Association Film Festival) film screenings and a panel:

Session 12

4:00 PM YOU ALWAYS SEE MYSELF (US, 15 min)

DIR/PROD: Christian Bruno, Natalija Vekic

A portrait of a group of talented neuro-diverse artists whose daily practice is nurtured and encouraged at Creativity Explored. The CE studio space and art gallery has transformed the personal and professional lives of numerous artists over the decades. When Covid-19 shuts down the beloved studio and threatens their community, they devise a collaborative fashion show that reunites the artists and instructors after 2-years apart.  (Filmmakers Present)

4:30 PM A STILL SMALL VOICE (US, 97 min)

DIR: Luke Lorentzen PROD: Kellen Quinn

Film shows Mati, a chaplain completing a year-long hospital residency, as she learns to provide spiritual care to people confronting profound life changes. Through Mati’s experiences with her patients, her struggle with professional burnout, and her own spiritual questioning, we gain new perspectives on how meaningful connection can be and how painful its absence is.

6:20 PM PANEL "Solving Health Crises” (FREE Admission)

Session 13

8:00 PM UNNAMED (Iran, 13 min)

DIR/PROD: Iranmehr Salimi

Zainab is a successful girl who supports her family financially, but considers herself a boy in spirit, and now she has decided to undergo gender transition, but in addition to her family's opposition and the society's inappropriate view of this issue, she has more difficulties. She played in the country's national volleyball team for a while and is now in the Bartar league, but she might be removed from professional volleyball forever due to her short stature compared to men.

8:30 PM THE HUMAN TRIAL (US, 54 min)

DIR: Lisa Hepner, Guy Mossman PROD: Lisa Hepner, Kristin Lesko, Simon Kilmurry, Jonathan Formica, Amy Rapp

In 2011, filmmakers Lisa Hepner and Guy Mossman heard about a radical stem cell treatment for diabetes, a disease that kills more than five million people each year. Driven by a desire to cure Lisa of her own type 1 diabetes, they secured unprecedented access to a clinical trial led by San Diego–based biotech company ViaCyte—only the sixth-ever embryonic stem cell trial in the world. What follows is an intimate journey with the patients and scientists who put themselves on the line to be first. (Filmmakers Present)