The Unknown Sweet Potato Seller, directed by Ahmed Roshdy, with Khaled Abol Naga and Tara Emad. Winner of Best Animated Film at the Miami Short Film Festival 2017. Reviewed by Professor Robert Abrams, Professor of Old Age Psychiatry, Weill Cornell University Mr Abol Naga, who plays himself as the film’s central character, is an important […]
Category: Podcasts
How Do We Find Meaning When We Are Going to Die?
In this podcast Dr Khalid Ali, Medical Humanities film and media correspondent, interviews Dr Amy Hardie at the Sudan Independent Film Festival where she held a training workshop for film students. Dr Amy Hardie is a documentary film-maker with several international awards. Her documentary feature, The Edge of Dreaming, was the first Scottish feature […]
Psychiatry, old age and relationships in Professor Robert Abrams’ words
In this broad interview, Professor of Old Age Psychiatry, Robert Abrams (Weill Cornell University, New York, USA), talks to the Screening Room editor of Medical Humanities Khalid Ali about family relationships, traumas from childhood, dementia, and geriatrics. Robert Abrams was interviewed at the Cairo Medfest, the First Arab Forum for Medicine in Film, in January […]