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
The catalogue in 3D
The film shelves have a room of their own that you can walk around in. The cat behind the counter is the AI Catbot, and they pick real films from the same catalogue when you tell them what you feel like watching. Nothing is for sale, here or in there. Go in from here and this film is already out on the counter, with more like it waiting on the shelf next to it.
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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