Intensive Life Unit

The film “Intensive Life Unit” will be part of the main program of the “One World” festival. It will be possible to watch it online from the comfort of your home. The stream will launch on November 7th at 12pm and will be available for the next 24 hours.

Intensive Life Unit / Adéla Komrzý / Czech Republic 2021 / 75 min. – 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.

Language: Czech

Topic: Slovakia and the Czech Republic for human rights

The screening of this film is inclusive. The film includes special subtitles and audio commentary through headphones – the screening can also be attended by people with hearing and visual impairments.