An Early Frost follows the story of a successful lawyer who discovers he has AIDS and must face the challenges of his terminal illness. As he navigates the difficult landscape of his declining health, he also tries to reconcile with his family and loved ones, who are grappling with their own emotions and prejudices. This emotional and impactful film explores the themes of love, acceptance, and the devastating impact of the AIDS epidemic in the 1980s.
A drama about two families, each with a gay son. Jonathan is splitting from Miki because the more experienced Miki is playing around. Then Jonathan sees Thomas, the son and grandson of his neighbors, who is back in Israel after failing to make it as a musician in New York: Thomas is ill, detached, in search of hard drugs. Jonathan tries to connect with him. Meanwhile, Thomas's grandmother, facing old age, has become bitter, particularly toward her hard-working daughter. They worry about Thomas. A few blocks away, Jonathan's mother, brother and sister maintain their sometimes bickering relationships, watching Jonathan brave adulthood.
Every So Often in the World... is a documentary movie that provides a glimpse into the lives of individuals dealing with various challenges in different countries. The film highlights themes of family, poverty, education, discrimination, and health issues. It takes the audience on a journey across continents, showcasing the resilience and strength of the human spirit.
The first and only documentary telling the story of the inspiring women at the forefront of the global AIDS movement. Combining archival footage and interviews with female activists, scientists and scholars in the US and Africa, this documentary reveals how women not only shaped grassroots groups like ACT-UP in the U.S., but have also played essential roles in HIV prevention and the treatment access movement throughout sub-Saharan Africa.
The poignant story of the fight against AIDS in France, from the discovery of the virus in 1983 by a team of researchers at the Pasteur Institute, led by Luc Montagnier and Françoise Barré-Sinoussi, to today's treatments, and the late or overly timid prevention campaigns by public authorities.
In a record of images and sounds, a young HIV+ man recounts his experience on the border between Argentina, Brazil and Paraguay.”
The film consists of three short documentary films that show the faces and give voices to children orphaned by AIDS. The intentions of the documentary are to focus attention on the dismemberment of families in Mozambique due to AIDS, because it is a harsh reality and too often ignored.
In 1991, Lionel Soukaz initiated his Journal annales, filming his "community of fags, poor people, and drug addicts" confronted with the AIDS epidemic, in 2,000 hours where public events intersect with the intimacy of his daily life. Faced with the impossibility of making a montage that would reflect the richness of this approach, Stéphane Gérard and Lionel Soukaz, for this project, focus on associations, mobilizations, meetings: the collective forms of commitment among the diversity of the fronts of struggle.
The cause of a veritable hecatomb during the 1980s and the first half of the 1990s, more and more doctors no longer hesitate to speak of HIV as a chronic disease. Although there is no cure for HIV, the tritherapies, which have been available since 1996 and are constantly being improved, now make it possible to live with it: HIV is no longer synonymous with AIDS, more than 80% of patients are therapeutically successful; this is more than diabetes. The promise of a vaccine is constantly being postponed: what solutions can be found to ensure that one day we can finally talk about the end of AIDS? What kind of prevention should be implemented to make it effective? This film takes stock of the major medical advances made today and investigates the successes and failures of HIV.
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