“Living in Emergency: Stories of Doctors Without Borders” was screend at the Miami Film Festival earlier this year. Two weeks ago, the Academy of Motion Pictures shortlisted the film for an Oscar nomination. Doctors Without Borders is giving the Miami public and Americans in 47 states a rare opportunity to see the film in a special one-night only event in 444
cinemas on Monday, December 14.
Set in war-torn Congo and post-conflict Liberia, “Living in Emergency” interweaves the stories of four aid workers with Doctors Without Borders as they struggle to provide emergency medical care under the most extreme conditions.
Two of the doctors are new recruits: a 26 year-old Australian doctor stranded in a remote bush clinic and an American surgeon struggling to cope under the load of emergency cases in a shattered capital city. Two others are experienced field hands: a dynamic Head of Mission, valiantly trying to keep morale high and tensions under control, and an exhausted veteran, who has seen too much horror and wants out.
Amid the chaos, each doctor must confront the severe challenges of the work, the tough choices, and the limits of their own idealism.