"Condemned" documents the mental health impacts of crisis in Africa - the trauma of mass rape, the grief of death in war, the insecurity of displacement. It illustrates what happens to the most vulnerable when governments implode and health systems collapse.
The mentally disabled in African countries in crisis are denied the opportunity to speak for themselves. CONDEMNED gives them a voice.
Photojournalist Robin Hammond travels to South Sudan, Uganda, Somalia, the Democratic Republic of Congo, and northern Kenya for this project and appeals in this short film for support to continue the work to West Africa.
Dame Factory Inc. is an award-winning experimental short film about power, sex and cold cuts. This stylish yet grotesque film takes a sexy avant garde look at the roles women play in our culture.
A tiny African nation of one million, Swaziland is ruled by one of the world’s
last remaining absolute monarchies. Its age-old tradition of polygamy and its
relaxed attitude toward sexuality have met in a devastating combination for
women: Swaziland reports the highest percentage of HIV positive people in the
world, with young women being affected most. Half of young Swazi women are HIV
positive, and life expectancy has dropped from 61 years to almost 31 years over
the past ten years.
