Dr Nagesh

Dominique Henry, Vincent Detours, Belgium, 2004, Beta-Digital, Format diffusion : 1.33 (SD), 51 minutes

Dr. Nagesh gives daily, free, consultations in Mumbai (Bombay). He takes care of HIV positive patients who cannot afford anti-HIV treatments. These men, women and children face the disease as well as their rejection from society. Dr. Nagesh helps them take stock of their financial, emotional and family situation. In the privacy of his office, masks fall, revealing each person's contradictions, lies and deep feelings.

• Directed by: Dominique Henry, Vincent Detours
• Screenplay: Dominique Henry & Vincent Detours
• Photography: Vincent Detours et Dominique Henry
• Sound: Dominique Henry
• Image editing: Vincent Detours
• Sound editing: Luc Plantier
• Mixing: Paul Delvoie
• Subtitles: FR, EN
• Available formats: Beta Digital, Digital, DVD
• Production: Good & bad News (Lubomir Guéorguiev)
• Coproduction: CBA, GSARA & avec le soutien de la SCAM (Société Civile des Auteurs Multimédia) — Bourse brouillon d'un rêve
• Coproduction workshop: CBA
• Festival promotion:

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• Sales (interlational distribution):

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• CBA
• Festival selections:

  - Film Francophone de Namur (Belgique)
  - Festival Cinema d’ATTAC (Belgique)
  - Infinity (Italie)
  - États Généraux du Film Documentaire, Lussas (France)
  - Mediawave (Hongrie)
  - Montreal Film Festival
  - One World (Tchéquie)
  - Henry Storck Award (Belgique).

• Awards:

  - Prix SCAM du meilleur documentaire belge, Filmer à Tout Prix, Brussels
  - Prix du meilleur point de vue sur la santé et la société, Traces de Vies (France)
  - Mention spéciale, Punto de Vista (Espagne)
  - Mention spéciale du jury and et prix du jury jeune, Festival du Film Scientifique d'Oullins (France).

• TV broadcasting:

  - TV5 (165 pays couverts)
  - VPRO (Hollande)
  - YLE (Finlande)
  - TSI (Suisse).

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