Autoimmune

Müret Isitmez

| France

| 00:18:04

Sunday 23 June 1:00 PM

A filmmaker opens up about her Hashimoto’s thyroiditis during a day of writing at her home in Alsace. Her introspection leads her to question the link between environmental pollutants and her autoimmune disease. All around her, the climate, disrupted by pollution, is showing signs of the depletion of freshwater resources. Like her body, humanity is self-destructing.

Programme

IN THE SEA

A professor travels to swim for 8km in Rio de Janeiro. He narrates the sensations of spending hours alone in the sea, unveiling issues such as the autonomy of the use of his body, the ableist discourse of overcoming, and racial inequality in his country. ...

We’ve Been Bamboozled!

Recent revelations show that the fossil fuel industries, over the course of many decades, sponsored scientific research about the potential consequences of burning fossil fuels on the earth's environment, which concluded that the impact would be 'dramatic' and...

Two People One Toilet

Robert, a young man who is intellectually disabled is taken to the park by his brother Tom. But what is meant to be an uneventful day trip proves to be the opposite.

A_biography

How can a person suffering from Alzheimer's still tell their own life? In the common room of an Alzheimer's clinic, music from the radio mixes with the low volume clatter of plates, the steps, the door movements or the quiet click of a light switch. The acoustic...

Lise’s life

When she was 18 months old, Lise's parents learned that she had a tumor on her optic nerve which made her visually impaired. At 12 years old, before completely losing her sight, she found a solution that would change her life.

In My World, In Your Eyes

Join Elena, an 11-year-old autistic girl, on her journey through a mainstream school. Through sensory simulations and narration, experience how individuals with autism perceive the world. Elena's fantastical imagination simplifies autism for all audiences, and sheds...