Life Support - Adelaide Screening + Panel Q&A
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Hosted by Healthcare Workers for Palestine South Australia and Australian Healthcare Alliance for Palestine (AHAP), ‘Life Support’ is a full-length documentary that captures the unique eye-witness testimonies of international doctors who have been to Gaza over the last two years.
Start time is 6:30pm. Doors open from 5:30pm.
Given the ban on international media, the doctors become the eyes and ears of the world. Led by Dr Nick Maynard, Dr Victoria Rose and Dr Tanya Haj Hassan, the film is structured around their visceral, first-hand footage from inside hospitals. As the doctors' videos chronicle their experience working in extreme conditions, footage shot for our film by local cameramen gives us access to everyday life in Gaza beyond the headlines.
This screening will be followed by a Q&A moderated conversation featuring:
Dr Waleed Alkhazrajy is a specialist anaesthetist in Adelaide and a refugee from Iraq, where he witnessed war first hand before arriving by boat in 1996. He holds executive roles with ANZCA, the Australian Society of Anaesthetists and Adelaide's health networks, and works tirelessly in the community through the Islamic Society of South Australia. In September and October 2025 he joined a PCRF medical mission to Gaza, and he continues to advocate for Palestine's land and people, and for those left behind in their everyday struggle just to survive.
Malcolm Hugo is one of Médecins Sans Frontières Australia’s most experienced international staff members. He is a psychologist who has completed over 25 assignments responding to some of the key humanitarian crises of recent decades. His assignments have included responding to the 2004 tsunami in Indonesia, the 2010 Haiti earthquake and Ebola outbreaks in Sierra Leone and Uganda. Malcolm has also completed assignments in many conflict zones, including Iraq, Syria, Pakistan, Ethiopia, Nigeria, South Sudan, Ukraine and most recently this year in Darfur, Sudan. He has also worked in the West Bank on two occasions, and in Gaza in 2024.
Moderator: Claire O'Connor SC is a barrister in practice in South Australia, appearing in leading human rights cases including the High Court's Al-Kateb litigation on the detention of stateless Palestinians, featured in the ABC's 2026 series Judgments. She has practiced in protest law since taking part in the Franklin blockade in the 1980s, representing climate, Palestine and peace movement protesters. Her immigration detention work spans detainees with mental health issues and offshore detention, alongside published writing on refugee health failures and a co-authored book on the impact of detention on women and girls in Nauru.
Content Warning: contains graphic and distressing scenes including images of severely injured children and starvation
Start time is 6:30pm. Doors open from 5:30pm.
Given the ban on international media, the doctors become the eyes and ears of the world. Led by Dr Nick Maynard, Dr Victoria Rose and Dr Tanya Haj Hassan, the film is structured around their visceral, first-hand footage from inside hospitals. As the doctors' videos chronicle their experience working in extreme conditions, footage shot for our film by local cameramen gives us access to everyday life in Gaza beyond the headlines.
This screening will be followed by a Q&A moderated conversation featuring:
Dr Waleed Alkhazrajy is a specialist anaesthetist in Adelaide and a refugee from Iraq, where he witnessed war first hand before arriving by boat in 1996. He holds executive roles with ANZCA, the Australian Society of Anaesthetists and Adelaide's health networks, and works tirelessly in the community through the Islamic Society of South Australia. In September and October 2025 he joined a PCRF medical mission to Gaza, and he continues to advocate for Palestine's land and people, and for those left behind in their everyday struggle just to survive.
Malcolm Hugo is one of Médecins Sans Frontières Australia’s most experienced international staff members. He is a psychologist who has completed over 25 assignments responding to some of the key humanitarian crises of recent decades. His assignments have included responding to the 2004 tsunami in Indonesia, the 2010 Haiti earthquake and Ebola outbreaks in Sierra Leone and Uganda. Malcolm has also completed assignments in many conflict zones, including Iraq, Syria, Pakistan, Ethiopia, Nigeria, South Sudan, Ukraine and most recently this year in Darfur, Sudan. He has also worked in the West Bank on two occasions, and in Gaza in 2024.
Moderator: Claire O'Connor SC is a barrister in practice in South Australia, appearing in leading human rights cases including the High Court's Al-Kateb litigation on the detention of stateless Palestinians, featured in the ABC's 2026 series Judgments. She has practiced in protest law since taking part in the Franklin blockade in the 1980s, representing climate, Palestine and peace movement protesters. Her immigration detention work spans detainees with mental health issues and offshore detention, alongside published writing on refugee health failures and a co-authored book on the impact of detention on women and girls in Nauru.
Content Warning: contains graphic and distressing scenes including images of severely injured children and starvation
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Capri Theatre, 141 Goodwood Rd, Goodwood SA 5034, Australia, Adelaide
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Host or PublisherPCRF Australia
