Staffan Hildebrand looks back on his 25 years of documenting the HIV and AIDS epidemic for the Face of AIDS Film Archive. The film portrays a shift from pessimism towards a growing optimism in the response to HIV and AIDS.

XVIII International AIDS Conference in Vienna. Interview with Tahi Ganyang Butarbutar from Indonesia. He talks about HIV/AIDS activism and fighting stigma.

Interview with the Scottish Singer and AIDS activist Annie Lennox in Mexico City. She talks about her activism and the situation of poverty, violence, gender inequality and human rights violations connected with HIV/AIDS.

Interview with the Scottish Singer and AIDS activist Annie Lennox in Mexico City. She talks about her activism and the situation of poverty, violence, gender inequality and human rights violations connected with HIV/AIDS.

Cutaways from a demonstration against homophobia in Mexico City in connection with the International AIDS Conference. Interviews with Swedish HIV/AIDS activist Jan Nola Morfeldt among others.

This film tells the US story of the AIDS epidemic starting in the early 1980's. Scientists and activists, both pioneers and youths of today, talk about research, prevention, treatment and care. They also discuss stigma, homophobia and poverty as closely related to HIV and AIDS.

Young AIDS activist Ricardo Baruch talks about the international collaboration of youth activists and the AIDS situation in Mexico for LBGT persons and women in rural areas and developing countries. He also reflects on the International AIDS Conference.

This film is about women from different parts of the world who are active in the HIV activist movement. They discuss gender inequality and the exposed situation of women and girls and explain the educational and empowering work which they are doing in their communities.

This is the third part of the interview with Dr Anthony Fauci. Here he talks about the American AIDS movement in the early 80's with activists such as the writer Larry Kramer in the frontline, and the time when he invited the leading activists up to his office.

4th International AIDS Conference in Stockholm in 1988. Australian Judge Michael Kirby estimates the prevalence of HIV/AIDS and talks about the scientific discoveries so far. He reflects on the moral issues connected with AIDS and talks about stigma and civil rights.