Hunger Ward

Documentary about two Yemeni health workers fighting to stop the spread of famine against the backdrop of a forgotten war. The film offers an uncompromising portrayal of Dr. Aida Alsadeeq and nurse Mekkia Mahdi as they try to save the lives of starving children in a population on the brink of famine.

A cruel documentary about child malnutrition, heartbreaking misery, real scenes, with undernourished children, inexplicable, absurd, that makes us question a lot about the future of humanity, I finished watching it with my goddaughter, who was touched... Yemen is in war since 2014, UN ranks as the worst humanitarian situation in the world generating 233 thousand deaths (10k only of children), war, drought, the pandemic and irregularities in gas imports by the war in Ukraine...

As a Yemeni-American whos been fighting against the military industrial complex-since the war on my family's homeland began and one the U. S. army has supported and funded since 2015. Hunger Ward gave viewers a very real and very painful peek into what the silent war on Yemen looks like-the economic warfare which has starved millions of Yemenis. Bravo to the film team for putting their lives on the line to show us how complicit the U. S. has been and a special shout out to the heroic healthcare workers in Yemen, who continue to serve Yemenis with very little resources and international support. I hope the American public can contact their lawmakers, and urge them to stop supporting war crimes on Yemenis. YemenCantWait.

This movie documented the heroic work of two Yemeni women health professionals fighting severe malnutrition among children. The movie maintained the dignity of the children and the families. It balanced the realities of dealing with children dying of hunger with the emotional heartaches of those dealing with it, families and health care workers. The film was made under extremely difficult war circumstances in two parts of the Yemen contorted by different fighting groups. I know the roads the team had to drive through and the many checkpoints they had to pass. It is a miracle that this film is made. I highly recommend this movie.

It's a decent documentary that could have been a lot better; it lasts 40 minutes and in that time it is very difficult to show many things; however, it is well done and shows us the sad reality of Yemen.

I watched Hunger ward the new documentary, which is directed by the Oscar-nominated director Skye Fitzgerald. It was good timing as Biden just announced that the United state will assert step up diplomacy to "end the war in Yemen", also, just days before the Biden administration removed Yemen's Houthi group from the terrorism list. I think it is good timing as it provides a perspective on how the war in Yemen discussed and portrait in nontraditional sours of news, which can be a reflection on what are the voices that maters and loud enough. The movie tells the story of Dr. Aida Alsadeeq who works in Aden, south of Yemen, and Nurse Mekkia Mahdi who works in Aslam, a town in the northwest of Yemen. It presents some faces and personal stories behind the massive campaigns of aid NGOs that flooded social media announcing the worst humanitarian crises. The movie attempt to generate empathy through These stories, it was sad and devastating, and for the majority of the movie, I really appreciate it. However, it was lazy. I wished that it followed the story of the individuals a little farther. I know it can be hard to do so, but that was the core of the movie and it deserved a little more attention. It is a short documentary that discusses personal stories to some limits and didn't highlight the many reasons for this crisis which is good enough. However, as lazy as traditional media the director chooses to shove a clip about an airstrike of funeral that happened in 2016. I couldn't understand the relevance of the clip other than a lazy attempt to highlight the war situation from one corner. How lazy is it to force a narrative without going through all the factors leading to the hunger crises in Yemen? Also, couldn't really go over the mistake in the Arabic spelling in the name of Dr. Aida Alsadeeq. In the end, it is frustrating how lightly we deal with what is happening in Yemen. American media talking about ending the war, and frankly, I can say naive empathy is dangerous, I learned that the hard way. You don't help by scratching the surface and framing a complex conflict from one point of view.

Art is powerful and we should treat it as such. It's not a project of merely tear-jerking to create empathy. It's about telling a story and aspiring for justice. The movie merely highlighted the hunger crisis and for the ones who follow the news coming from Yemen, it didn't go much beyond what you can see in news headlines.