The Oscar-contending short documentary Where the Light Enters You begins with a chaotic scene at a hospital in India, with huge crowds of people pressing to get in.

“Ma’am, please call security,” a doctor tells an administrator. “Everyone is rushing in to ask to be treated.”

Aney Patel , the protagonist of the film, knows that reality all too well. When her mother Alka was seriously injured in a car accident, she needed urgent medical attention but didn’t get it.

“She wasn’t taken to the hospital in time,” Aney says in the documentary. “I blamed it on the system. She would have a chance if even one person cared enough that night. She didn’t need to die that day.”

After her mother’s death, Aney and her siblings moved to the U.S. As an adult, she decided to do something about that d

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