Hot Docs and the Calgary International Film Festival present:

Doc Soup: Bending the Arc

Wednesday, November 01, 2017 @ 7:00 PM
Cineplex Eau Claire - 200 Barclay Parade SW, Calgary, AB
$15 General | $13 Student/Senior | $68 Subscription

Three decades ago, a group of activists and doctors set out to bring healthcare to everyone in the world. This is the story of their ongoing crusade and its effect on millions of people.

Thirty years ago, a group of improbable heroes came together on a mission that was both medical and moral - and, by everyone’s estimation other than their own, highly unlikely to succeed. Their goal was simple but daring: to make high-quality healthcare available to everyone, even in the world’s poorest countries. Fighting entrenched diseases, political and bureaucratic machinery, and the charity-industrial complex itself, these crusaders forced the international community to embrace the idea that healthcare must be a basic human right in every society, and went ahead to provide it. In doing so, they have changed the lives of millions of people across the globe.

Told through interviews, rare archival material and on-the-ground contemporary footage featuring Dr. Paul Farmer (legendary founder of Partners In Health), Dr. Jim Yong Kim (the maverick president of the World Bank), and Dr. Agnes Binagwaho (controversial Health Minister of Rwanda), the film is an emotionally charged, dramatic and inspiring journey with these brilliant and headstrong heroes.

UNITED STATES, 2017, 102 MIN.

BENDING THE ARC is the first film in the 2017-18 Doc Soup Series co-presented by Hot Docs. Tickets will be on sale soon. 

About Doc Soup Calgary

Doc Soup Calgary is a monthly feature-length documentary series presented in partnership with the Calgary International Film Festival and Hot Docs. The series is now in its 10th year and runs from November 2017 to April 2018. Screening on the first Wednesday of each month, Doc Soup Calgary brings six of the year's most talked-about docs to local audiences.

The screening dates for the 2017-18 season are:

Wednesday, November 1, 2017, 7 p.m. at Cineplex Eau Claire
Wednesday, December 6, 2017, 7 p.m. at Cineplex Eau Claire
Wednesday, January 3, 2018, 7 p.m. at Globe Cinema
Wednesday, February 7, 2018, 7 p.m. at Cineplex Eau Claire
Wednesday, March 7, 2018, 7 p.m. at Cineplex Eau Claire
Wednesday, April 4, 2018, 7 p.m. at Cineplex Eau Claire

Doc Soup Subscriptions are now SOLD OUT. Each film in the series is announced one month in advance. Single tickets to each film will be available for purchase at that time. 

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