INTENSIVE LIFE UNIT
Jednotka intenzivního života
Doctors Ondřej and Kateřina look after their patients to the best of their ability, but they can’t prevent their deaths. Nevertheless, the inevitability of the end isn’t the hardest thing they have to face as heads of palliative care at Prague’s General University Hospital. A pilot project has emerged at a time when countless options are available to prolong human life; death is a social taboo and everyone has to confront his own mortality. Aware that a classic profile of the hospital would fall short, Adéla Komrzý submits a profoundly humanistic meditation on the ethics of palliative care. Betraying her special brand of empathy, she documents intimate conversations between doctors and their patients which demonstrate that, while there’s no good or bad way to die, there’s always a means to improve patient’s quality of life.
We are screening this film inclusively. The film includes special subtitles and audio commentary through headphones – the screening can also be attended by people with hearing and visual impairments.
Jednotka intenzivního života / Adéla Komrzý / Czech Republic / 2021 / 75 min.
Czech
Slovakia and the Czech Republic for human rights
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