West Norwood 4 Palestine Free Film Festival 2026 Screening 3: 'Life Support'

Life Support compiles detailed, eye-witness testimonies from renowned medical experts, doctors who work in some of our most prestigious medical institutions. You’d put your life in their hands, and with Life Support you will hear them detail what they witnessed over several placements in Gaza, chronicling Israel’s systematic, intentional targeting of Gaza’s healthcare system, facilities and medical personnel.

Why are their testimonies important? Their powerful and revelatory testimonies fill a vital information vacuum created by Israel, which has intentionally barred international journalists, and human rights or forensic specialists, from entering Gaza. They corroborate often dismissed testimonies by Palestinian health workers. As a UN OCHA report states, international doctors are “vital witnesses to an unfolding genocide on the ground. In fact, they are probably one of the only demographic of workers who have had near-regular access to Gaza since the start of the present war”.

It adds: “the hospital becomes a kind of node that registers multiple genocidal practices on the ground: revealing the ways in which policies like deliberate restriction of aid, famine, the disproportionate use of munitions, targeting of civilians—particularly children and women – forced evacuations and displacement, lack of clean water, sanitation, and fuel, among others things, all intersect and aggravate one another to systematically delete the Palestinian people.”

We are thrilled to have award-winning documentary filmmaker, Daniele Rugo, as director. 

We are equally thrilled to have Academy Award-winner, Masahiro Hirakubo, as editor. Masahiro has 30 years’ experience in film as an editor and has won an Oscar as editor of the documentary The White Helmets(2016).

Hollywood stars Susan Sarandon and Melissa Barrera, and Oscar-nominated and BAFTA-winning filmmaker Farah Nabulsi, and Oscar and BAFTA winning director, Asif Kapadia, are among the executive producers; along with musician Paul Weller. Massive Attack’s Robert Del Naja and studio collaborator Euan Dickinson composed part to its soundtrack, as has Palestinian composer and oud virtuoso, Habib Hanna. Andor star and Laurence Olivier award-winning actor, Denise Gough, reads powerful words by Gazan writer, Alaa Alqaisi.

Website: https://lifesupportfilm.co.uk/