CH 2026, 22’, OmU, R: Nevin George
Who cares for a society that cannot care for itself? Germany does not have to confront this question only now. Already in the 1960s and 1970s, the Federal Republic faced a nursing shortage. Salvation came from Asia: thousands of young women from South Korea, the Philippines and India left their old lives behind to tend to the wounds of a post-war generation. The documentary project WHO CARED tells the life stories of former nurses who recount their stories of a previously invisible female migration history – with far-reaching consequences for the generations that followed them, their country of origin India, German society, and the significance of the nursing profession worldwide. On 15 November, WHO CARED invites you to the official launch of the archive at Filmforum NRW. In stage conversations and film excerpts, former nurses from India tell their stories.