This is a short film introducing The Face of AIDS Film Archive. It contains clips from the archive, information about the origins of the archive and future plans.

XIX International AIDS Conference opening ceremony. Speeches by the Elizabeth Taylor award winners of 2012, political and religious leaders, leaders of international agencies such as UNAIDS, IAS, The Global Fund, The World Bank and UN, and many other delegates.

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 in 2010. Press conference about the Shapa Boys, an initiative by male bicycle taxi drivers in Malawi, supported by the organization Friends of AIDS Support Trust (FAST), to prevent sex as payment for taxi services.

XVIII International AIDS Conference in Vienna in 2010. Press conference about the Shapa Boys, an initiative by male bicycle taxi drivers in Malawi, supported by the organization Friends of AIDS Support Trust (FAST), to prevent sex as payment for taxi services.

XVII International AIDS Conference in Mexico City. Interview with Lennart Hjelmåker, Swedish AIDS Ambassador, and Åsa Hindenborg from the Swedish Ministry of Foreign Affairs, about the themes of the conference and the future of AIDS response.

XVII International AIDS Conference in Mexico City. Face of AIDS film screening, short interviews, demonstrations and music performances. The Canadian rapper Eternia performs songs about HIV/AIDS and women's rights.

XVI International AIDS Conference. Screening of the Face of AIDS documentary Women at the Frontline (2006). Seminar with the two American Businesswomen Melinda Gates and Sheila Johnson, UN Special Envoy, Nafis Sadik, and South African AIDS activist Musa Njoko.

XVI International AIDS Conference in Toronto. Screening of the Face of AIDS documentary Women at the Frontline of the AIDS Response (2006). The film was produced for the Melinda Gates seminar on women and AIDS held at the conference.

XV International AIDS Conference in Bangkok in July, 2004. Face of AIDS doing marketing for the organization by handing out DVDs with the documentary "Global Youth Fighting HIV and AIDS" shown at the opening ceremony of the conference.

XV International AIDS Conference in Bangkok in July, 2004. Interview with Swedish AIDS Ambassador Lennart Hjelmåker. He talks about the global HIV and AIDS situation, about what is being done and what is to be done by communities and governments in the future.

A woman working with the Cambodian non-governmental organization KHANA presents the Face of AIDS film project to her colleagues and talks about the collaboration between KHANA and Face of AIDS.