Affliction: Ebola Documentary and Q&A with Doctors Without Borders

Please join Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) for a special presentation of the MSF documentary, Affliction.

Doors Open: 6:15 PM
Film Begins: 7:00 PM
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This is a free event, seating is first-come, first-served. Must RSVP to Marketing@Santikos.com

Post-Screening Discussion with:

Dr. John Lawrence, MSF-USA Board President and MSF surgeon in Democratic Republic of Congo, Central African Republic, Syria, Ivory Coast, and Haiti.

Dr. Kimberlea Roe, MSF OBGYN in Sri Lanka, Nigeria, and Sierra Leone, before the outbreak.

Kim Federici-Florczak, MSF community health promoter in Liberia and Sierra Leone during the Ebola outbreak, and MSF RN in Cambodia and Armenia.

Presented by Santikos Entertainment, the San Antonio Foundation, and UT Health Center San Antonio – Center for Medical Humanities and Ethics.

About the film:

Shot in Liberia, Sierra Leone and Guinea, Affliction provides an intimate look at the impact of the Ebola outbreak on the lives of individuals. Starting in the remote village where the first victim was identified, the film takes us through the three affected countries, Guinea, Liberia, and Sierra Leone.

Through a series of interconnected scenes, we explore different aspects of the outbreak as village chiefs, patients, survivors, and national and international aid workers talk about fear and rejection, the stigma, the impact of quarantine, the mortality of health personnel, the failure of the international response, and the lack of adequate medical treatment.The film crew had unlimited access to the teams of Doctors Without Borders and was able to film some difficult moments normally hidden for the cameras.

In the final scene we are taken on an emotional roller coaster and feel the complex reality facing those who have survived Ebola.

Directed by Peter Casaer.

70 minutes, plus Q&A