As a surgeon’s daughter, she once roamed the hospital with wonder. As an adult, she searches for the humanity that has been replaced by machines.
Raised in the warm, familiar corridors of the hospital where her father worked as a surgeon, a woman returns years later as a patient to find a radically transformed world. As clinical efficiency and technological precision replace the tenderness she once associated with caregiving, she searches for traces of the humanity she remembers. Blending charcoal drawing and paint-on-glass animation, this deeply personal film reflects on memory, care and the fragile relationship between medicine and compassion.
Hospital, with Love is part of Alambic, the NFB French Animation Unit’s creative lab for emerging filmmakers.
Hospital, with Love, Carine Khalifé, provided by the National Film Board of Canada