Iris Global Health Film Festival 2025

Feature Films Block

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This SXSW Award winning documentary offers an intimate look inside the billion dollar addiction treatment industry where young people are bought and sold for their insurance policies and ushered into a system designed to keep them sick.
Complicated
In a time when the failures of healthcare in America are coming under scrutiny, COMPLICATED tells the poignant story of kids with complicated illness suffering at the margins of mainstream medicine—and their parents who risk losing them if they go too far to help.
Cracking the Code: Phil Sharp and the Biotech Revolution
The 1977 discovery of RNA splicing by Dr. Phillip A. Sharp, Kentucky farm boy turned Nobel-prize winning scientist, set the stage for a revolution in molecular biology, enabling research into a new class of medicines predicated on recombinant DNA techniques ranging from the development of synthetic insulin and human growth hormone to the COVID-19 vaccine.
Ayahuasca Now
After many years of life marked by PTSD men and women veterans of the wars in Vietnam, Afghanistan, and Iraq, travel to the Peruvian Amazon to participate in shamanic ceremonies to heal their traumas. Stories about war and spirituality.
Diagnonsense
A self-reflexive meta-documentary. Filmmaker Ane-Martha Tamnes Hansgard was diagnosed with multiple mental disorders over fifteen years and was prescribed a staggering number of psychotropic medications.
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Facing the Wind
Facing the Wind follows two women grappling with their husbands’ progressing dementia. One plans a go-for-broke road trip while the other leaves her job to care for the man she loves. As the skies darken, their growing friendship and a unique support community help pull them through
I Will Build This World From Love
I Will Build This World From Love tells the story of some young women and men from the country of Georgia who bravely aspire to practice their Judaism in all its fullness and without limitation.
Test Subject V
Halfway drifting through a debaucherous life, a man wakes up to challenge the beliefs of an entire nation.
Turtle Walker
In the 1970s, Satish Bhaskar became a turtle walker: He walked nearly the entire coastline of India and the spectacular Andaman and Nicobar Islands in search of sea turtles. Carrying a camera and a notepad, he documented turtles’ nesting areas and tried to save them from extinction. Then the 2004 Indian Ocean tsunami struck, putting all his work and the creatures he loved in peril.
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Through the lens of his own recovery, a filmmaker offers an intimate look inside the billion dollar addiction treatment industry where young people are bought and sold for their insurance policies and ushered into a system designed to keep them sick.
  • Year
    2025
  • Runtime
    82 minutes
  • Language
    English
  • Country
    United States
  • Genre
    Documentary
  • Director
    Benjamin Flaherty
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