WHO Health for All Film Festival 2022

Films are a powerful way to raise awareness, improve understanding and encourage positive behaviour changes, that’s why the Health for All Film Festival (HAFF) recruits year after year a new generation of film and video innovators to champion and promote health issues.

This HAFF website includes examples of films created to improve the health status of people globally, and tips for encouraging an educative usage of our selection of short films gathered since our first HAFF edition in 2020.

About World Health Organization (WHO)

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Health for All Film Festival

Aim and Benefits of Health for All Film Festival

Each prize will include a trophy and a grant as follows:

There will be three GRAND PRIX, one for each category, each GRAND PRIX will receive a grant of US$ 10,000.

In addition, juries can nominate special prizes (listed below) for short-listed videos not receiving a GRAND PRIX. From this pool, the Director-General can choose up to three special prizes, each receiving a grant of US$ 5,000.

The winners of GRAND PRIX are not eligible for special prizes. In addition, there will be only one special prize per candidate. The special prizes are:

-Special Climate and Health Film Prize – Films about health benefits of innovative solutions or ideas tackling climate change. Local or national stories are welcome in the perspective of such solutions to be scaled up around the globe, or simply those ideas to be better known.

- Special Sexual and Reproductive Health (SRH) Film Prize – Films considering SRH and rights as a fundamental element to the overall health and well-being of individuals, couples, families, and communities. This HAFF special prize and its shortlist of films will be a contribution to the 50th anniversary of the Human Reproduction Programme (HRP) also known as the UNDP/UNFPA/UNICEF/WHO/World Bank Special Programme of Research, Development and Research Training in Human Reproduction

•STUDENT film prize – films produced by students who can justify that the films were made during their university studies.

•VERY SHORT FILM PRIZE: for videos from 1 minute to 2 minutes 30 seconds long with a story in line with the content of the main three categories and/or the content of other special prizes described before.

Requirements for Health for All Film Festival Qualification

• Only short films about health completed between 1 January 2020 and 31 January 2023 are eligible for the Film Festival 4th edition. On the occasion of WHO’s 75th anniversary in 2023, the film festival would accept some older films about public health historical achievements which should be reformatted to meet the guidelines in the festival rules.
• All types of artistic approaches are welcome: animation, fiction, documentary, and video art.
• The length of each film submitted has to respect the format described in the rules.
• A submission can be in any language; if the film is not in English, English subtitles must be included in the frame.
• The period for submissions is from 31 October 2022 through 31 January 2023.
• Any production made by United Nations staff members or exclusively done with UN funding is not eligible.
• Commercial/corporate films advertising for a product, device, or private business service, won’t be selected.

Application Deadline

How to Apply

For more details, visit WHO website.