A Story of Healing (1996)

Directed by

Donna Dewey

Genre

documentary film

Country

United States

Runtime

28 min

Rating

7.1 of 10 from 8 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

A film follows a team of US medical volunteers who perform surgeries for children and adults in Vietnam. It shows the impact of the operations on both the patients and the volunteers.

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What happens

A Story of Healing is a short documentary film in which Donna Dewey follows a team of five nurses, four anesthesiologists, and three plastic surgeons led by Larry Nichter from Interplast in the United States for two weeks of volunteer work in the Mekong Delta of Vietnam. The film shows not only how this changes the lives of the 110 patients who undergo surgery, but also the lives of the volunteers themselves. The epilogue, which runs after the credits, follows-up on two patients helped by Interplast, 16 months after their surgery. In 1998, "A Story of Healing" won the Academy Award for Best Documentary (Short Subject). In 2007, it became the first Oscar-winning film to be licensed under a Creative Commons license when it was opened under the Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives License. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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