As we have already announced, the Imagésanté festival, which aims to promote health through images, through a Documentary Film Festival anchored in the city of Liège, of around ten TV shows on health-related topics and a Campus featuring numerous health education and promotion activities, namely student-only workshops and live coverage of surgical operations, will be launched on March 27 next. More than 300 films were selected for the international competition, two thematic sessions and programs addressing various health topics. The Festival also offers health education and promotion activities, including live broadcasts of surgical operations.
All the screenings of the films in competition are grouped together in the city centre, in the heart of the city of Liège, at the Sauvenière and Churchill des Grignoux cinemas. Imagésanté 2023 will present a program of 22 documentaries in competition from all over the world, selected “for their quality, their commitment and their approach which offers a cross-section of cinema, science and health”, point out the organizers.
The Festival also offers programs on various health themes, broadcast live on one of the Festival’s two YouTube channels and then podcasted to be available on the website. www.imagesante.be. These programs will address topics such as diet, vaccination, the long Covid, physical activity, medicine in the digital age, oncology, the mental health of the population or endocrine disruptors. The programs will be filmed on the set of the Cité Miroir, in the presence of the public.
Education and health promotion activities will take place at the Amphis de Médecine on the CHU de Liège site, with live broadcasts of surgical operations on Monday 27, Tuesday 28, Thursday 30 and Friday 31 March. These retransmissions will allow the public to dialogue with the doctor in full work and to discover, through his eyes, the details of his interventions. The Festival also offers many workshops for young people, whose health is a major concern.
The 2023 Imagésanté Festival promises many surprises and highlights, such as the opening ceremony and preview of the film “Penelope, My Love”, as well as the closing ceremony and award ceremony at the Cité Miroir. . Conferences, previews, meetings and many other activities will be offered.
Conferences
Among the conferences and special presentations, the festival wishes to highlight six of them:
· Tuesday, March 28: screening of the film “(R)volution Sida” out of competition, in the presence of director Frédéric Chaudier, who is also President of the International Competition Jury; this film will be followed by a debate with representatives of the AIDS Prevention Platform and Sida-Sol Liège, as well as an infectiologist from the Liège University Hospital (Ciné Sauvenière, 8 p.m.);
· on Wednesday 29 March, preview presentation of the film “Sauve une Vie 3”, in partnership with the CHU and the University of Liège, focusing on domestic fires. The screening will be followed by a debate on the right reflexes to adopt depending on the severity of the injury (Cité Miroir, 8 p.m.);
· on Wednesday 29 March, special screening of the film “Queerying Nature”, a Liège co-production, followed by a debate: “Transidentity, what support?” in the presence of the director, Aline Magrez, the film crew, the protagonist Camille (who is from Liège), a representative of the Transkids association and Nancy Van Hauwermeiren, psychologist-sexologist at the Support Center for Transidentities from the University Hospital of Liège (Ciné le Sauvenière, 8 p.m.);
· Thursday 30 March, conference organized by Solidaris on the theme “The fair price of medicines”, during which the tool put in place by the mutual insurance company to estimate the fair price of a medicine will be presented (Cité Miroir, 7 pm);
· Thursday March 30, special evening devoted to the retransmission of live operations, with live commentary by experts and doctors (Ciné Sauvenière, 8 p.m.);
· Friday, March 31, a major conference for students: “Life sciences careers, a secure future!”, in order to orient them towards training and careers related to the health and life sciences sector. Great career opportunities are emerging in this sector! (Cité Miroir, 9 a.m. for secondary school students, 11 a.m. for higher level students).
The 2018 edition of Imagésanté (last face-to-face edition) brought together more than 12,000 people, while the 2021 edition, in virtual format because of the health crisis, reached 120,000 Internet users via its TV channels.
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