THE FRIENDSHIP BENCH
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SAGE Encounters Refinery Best Edited Film Award - Encounters Film Festival | European Premiere at Dokumentale Mental Health • Grandmothers • Zimbabwe • Social Impact • Community Strengthening • Africa • Psychiatry • Public Health • Gogos Date of Completion: 2024 | Run Time: 75 minutes​​ | Languages: English & Shona | Captions: Yes | Includes: Transcript | Director: Reabestwe Moeti-Vogt | Featuring: Dr. Dixon Chibanda | Director of Photography: Joe Njagu | Editor: David Jakubovic | Original Music: Khari Mateen | Producer: Graham Leader In 2006, Dr. Dixon Chibanda, a psychiatrist in Zimbabwe, was ordered by the government to deal with the severe mental health crisis afflicting the nation. However, there was literally a handful of psychiatrists in the entire country, which meant searching for a solution beyond conventional medicine. That forced him to consider grandmothers (Gogos) as his only option. Starting with a group of 14 Gogos, he began training them in cognitive therapy to

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