WPA-WHO Workshop on
Mental Health and Psychosocial Support in Areas Affected
by Disasters and Conflicts, which will be held in Geneva
Switzerland 27 – 31 July 2009.

COMMENTS great apportunity to meet the experts &
 learn  from our own interesting experiences.
It was an excellent & very productive experience

INTERESTING FILMS

The end of poverty? by Philippe Diaz (USA 2008) - EXCELENT documentary!!! It tries to understand the causes of poverty e why the situation is still critical despite all the "efforts". It is REALLY worth watching it!
- What are we doing here? by Brandon Klein, Nic Klein, Daniel Klein e Tim Klein (Egypt, Sudan, Ethiopia, Somalia, Kenya, Uganda, Rwanda, Tanzania, Malawi, Zambia, Botsuana, South Africa and USA 2008) - very good documentary! It questions the action of NGOs and UN agencies. It makes us reflect!
- Invisibles by Isabel Coixet, Wim Wenders, Fernando Léon de Aranoa, Mariano Barroso e Javier Corcuera (Spain 2007) - MSF Spain invited all 5 directors to visit different MSF projects that dealt with 5 of the top 10 situations/diseases neglected in the media.
- I am because we are by Nathan Rissman (USA 2008) - excellent documentary which focus is the poverty in Malawi.
- Teza by Haile Gerima (Ethiopia, Germany and France 2008) - it is not a documentary, but shows a little of Ethiopia's history and its political problems.

- Je veux voir by Khalil Joreige and Joana Hadjithomas (Lebanon/France 2008) – the directors invited Catherine Deneuve for a trip in Lebanon and to escort her they invited the Lebanese actor Rabih More.

- Gomorra by Matteo Garrone (Italy 2008) – about the Italian mafia Camorra. It was the big winner at this year Cannes Festival.

- Guerrilla (CHE) by Steven Soderbergh (EUA 2008) – follows the path of Ernesto Che Guevara, Argentinean doctor who joined Fidel Castro in the Cuban Revolution and became a symbol of the resistance to the North-American imperialism.

- Des Fremde in Mir by Emily Atef (Germany 2008) – young couple in love wait anxiously for the birth of their first child. However the woman presents post-partum depression.

- Youssou Ndour: I bring what I love by Elizabeth Chai Vasarhelyi (EUA 2008) – documentary about the singer Youssou Ndour from Senegal who was considered in 2007 one of the most influential African figures.

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