AIDS is giving rise to profound soul-searching and debate. While those living with HIV and AIDS do their utmost to maintain their quality of life, health care professionals struggle to provide medical and support services, researchers and clinicians pool their knowledge, and philosophers and humanists open up new avenues of thought. Doctors with Heart enters the doors of an AIDS clinic in Montreal, providing a thoughtful look at all aspects of AIDS through the eyes of some particularly compassionate and dedicated doctors. Candid and original in its approach, this powerful documentary explores the legal and ethical problems facing contemporary medicine as it confronts one of its biggest challenges.

In French with English subtitles.
Also available in French
1994, 112 min 39 s

Directed by
Tahani Rached

Produced by
Éric Michel
Jacques Vallée

Production Agency
National Film Board of Canada

Director
Tahani Rached

Producer
Éric Michel
Jacques Vallée

Camera
Martin Leclerc
André-Luc Dupont
Jean-Pierre Lachapelle
Roger Rochat

Sound
Esther Auger
Yvon Benoît
Serge Beauchemin
Richard Besse
Ismaël Cordeiro
Marie-France Delagrave
Yves Gendron

Editing
Monique Fortier

Sound editing
Marie-Claude Gagné

Re-recording
Shelley Craig
Terry Mardini

Music
René Lussier

Participation
Réjean Thomas
Michel Marchand
Jonathan Mann
David Roy
Clément Olivier

Categories
Health and Medicine | AIDS | Community Health Services | Sexuality and Reproduction | Religion, Beliefs and Ethics | Ethics and Bioethics | Sexually Transmitted Diseases | Social Issues | Health and Illness | Religion and Ethics

Watch Doctors with Heart online at NFB.ca

Awards
Certificate of Merit
Long Island Film Festival
June 21 to 25 1995, Hauppauge - USA