Hey, Humans

Āy Ādamha

A compassionate portrait of the Chain of Hope charity organisation, which treats underprivileged children from all over Iran.

Rakhshan Banietemad’s profoundly humane film documents the work of volunteer Iranian and French doctors, specialising in the branches of cardiac, orthopaedic and rehabilitation treatment for underprivileged infants and children. Capturing the medics at work and witnessing their impact on the children’s lives, which would have been dramatically different had the charity not existed, Hey, Humans subtly questions the role any societies play in