Hunger Ward (2020)

Nominated for Best Documentary Short    You know how the last couple of years, all the documentaries have been about Syria?  Well, get ready to shift down to Yemen!  Its civil war and on-going humanitarian crises are ripe fuel for Western performative sympathy.

This short follows Dr. Aida Alsadeeq and nurse Mekkia Mahdi as they do their best to help severely malnourished children survive in two of the most active therapeutic centers in Yemen, one urban, one rural.  

Content warning:  dead children, dying children, starving children

It is a hard watch but attention absolutely needs to be put to this issue.  If you don't want to watch, but just throw money at something, the link is hungerward.org.  It's currently streaming on Paramount+.  I signed up for a free 7-day trial just to watch this, but I'm thinking about keeping it for at least another month.