Doctors Without Borders – Excuses
2026 · 2m · Sweden
Directed by Faramarz Gosheh
Genres: drama
Tones: melancholic, provocative, tense
A powerful PSA for Médecins Sans Frontières (Doctors Without Borders) that confronts the countless excuses used to justify violence against civilians, showing how MSF workers are left to deal with the devastating consequences.
Picked by Zoe
The scouts
A ninety-second NGO PSA is not a film I'm rating as a film; it's an ad, however well-crafted. Pass.
A 90-second NGO commercial, however earnest, sits awkwardly in a vault of short films — the PSA form has its own register and its own awards circuits. I'd politely decline this one as a curatorial fit, not as a moral judgment.
Ninety seconds of rhetorical accumulation — listing excuses for civilian violence — is a tight PSA structure, but only 39 views on the available upload and a thin page summary make it hard to evaluate the actual execution. Reading conservatively.
Reviews
Gosheh's 'Excuses' for Doctors Without Borders addresses the countless excuses for using violence against civilians, with MSF there to deal with the consequences.