2023
The High
Topic: Commercial Determinants of Health
Four teachers at a Danish school get infected by the idea of a natural alcohol deficit and try to rekindle their spent life energy with wine and other stimulants. This does work initially, but quickly rises to delirium. The tragicomedy dissects the conditions of alcoholism in affluent societies and maintains distance to both the sentimental buddy comedy as well as the self-righteous drama. A brilliantly staged and played film on the social and health risks of alcohol.
Guests of the discussion:
Dr. Claudia Ditzen-Janotta, Research Assistant at the Chair of Public Health and Health Services Research, Evidence-based Public Health Group, LMU Munich
Annika Hagge (Moderation), Public Health Film Festival
Micha Kreitmeier, Public relations as dry alcoholic
Berit Uhlmann, Science Editor at Süddeutsche Zeitung, Master of Public Health at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine
Tomorrow - The world is full of solutions
Topic: Communicating Planetary Health
What if there were the formula to save the world? What if each of us could contribute? When actress Mélanie Laurent and the French activist Cyril Dion read a study in the magazine “Nature” predicting the likely collapse of our civilization over the next 40 years, they do not want to resign themselves to this horror scenario. However, it quickly becomes clear to them that the existing approaches are not sufficient to inspire a broad part of the population and spur them into action. So the two set off. They speak with experts and visit projects and initiatives around the world that pursue alternative environmental, economic and democratic ideas. What they find is answers to the most urgent questions of our time. And the certainty that there may be another story for our future.
Guests of the discussion:
Dr. Bernhard Goodwin (Moderation), Executive Director of the Munich Science Communication Lab, Institute for Communication Science and Media Research, LMU Munich
Anna Gaul, Science Communication in Planetary Health, Institute for Communication Science and Media Research, LMU Munich
Judith Stiegelmayr, Community Kitchen
A lonely city
Topic: Loneliness & Public Mental Health
How are people doing that live in Berlin and do not cope with the pace, the anonymity and the dynamics of the big city? What happens when the radius of one's own life becomes smaller, or if you cannot connect as a young person, because you are overwhelmed with social organisation by the city's size? A LONELY CITY portrays a feeling that does not stop at any generation, nor social group and or professional division. The film accompanies seven people between 19 and 85 years old who deal with their loneliness each in their own distinguished way.
Guests of the discussion:
Dr. rer. biol. hum. Michaela Coenen, Head of the Department of Health Promotion and Prevention, Coordination of Studies Master Programme Public Health, LMU Munich
Dr. med Caroline Jung-Sievers (Calger), Research Associate, Department of Public Mental Health, LMU Munich
Gabriele Uitz, representative of the Bavarian Ministry of State for Health, Care and Prevention
Dear Future Children
In cooperation with the Popup Sommerkino 2023
Topic: Planetary Health & activism
Three countries, three conflicts, three women and a fairly similar fate: tear gas and rubber bullets, water cannons and deadly drought, governments that do not want to listen and a young generation that is rightly angry. But they do not plan to surrender: neither Hilda, who is fighting for the future of our environment in Uganda, nor Rayen or Pepper, who are taking to the streets for more social justice and democracy in Santiago de Chile and Hong Kong. They continue to fight. For their and our future children.
Guests of the discussion:
Dr. Bernhard Goodwin (Moderation), Executive Director of the Munich Science Communication Lab, Institute for Communication Science and Media Research, LMU Munich
Tabitha Potthoff, activist at the “Last Generation Munich”
Prof. Eva Rehfuess, Chair of the Chair of Public Health and Health Services Research, LMU Munich