Imagésanté: a film festival

It presents 22 documentary films, selected for their quality and commitment, offering festival-goers a crossroads between cinema, science and health. An exciting journey designed to awaken the mind and the eye to issues of health and well-being.

Each screening is an opportunity to meet the film team, health specialists and representatives of associations concerned by the film’s theme, and to discuss the sensitive issues addressed, including the aging population, mental health-related suffering, overcoming disability, new technologies…

The festival includes three competitions:

• Official Competition
• Mountain Climbing Competition: the journey of individuals and communities struggling to reclaim their health.
• Lever les Tabous competition: presentation of new therapeutic approaches and other medical advances.

In addition to these competitions, we have two cross-disciplinary competitions thanks to the support of our partners:

• “Positive Mental Health” supported by the Province of Liège
• “Citizen Commitment and Health” supported by Mutualité chrétienne
• “Environment” supported by the Walloon Region

These cross-disciplinary competitions will each reward a film dealing with the theme in question.

ImagéSanté also includes some 50 live surgical operations, giving visitors the opportunity to see the work of our nursing staff, and to talk to the surgeons in real time.
These operations are part of the “Campus” component of Imagésanté. The aim of the Campus is to offer a wide range of educational workshops and conferences on major contemporary health issues to the 4,000 students who come to the Faculty of Medicine to attend.

ImagéSanté is also a year-round program, thanks to the Cycle.
It offers fiction films, systematically punctuated by a discussion linked to the film. The cycle is always an opportunity for rich, intense exchanges.

Where does the festival take place?

Campus

CHU Liège – Faculty of Medicine – Quartier Hôpital – Avenue Hippocrate 15 – 4000 Liège