Coffee Break

By: Juan Carlos Ocampo (University of Sheffield, UK), Hugh Mann Adamson & Gabriel Fernández-Gil (ENON Films)

Description: A young woman struggles to get support from family and society to address her coffee drinking in a world where coffee is a criminalised drug. Instead, she is ostracised, persecuted, fired from her job, kicked out of her home, and driven away from health services. This short film creatively portrays evidence-supported harms of criminalisation but does so with coffee as an analogy. It aims to encourage people who do not use criminalised drugs to think about compassionate and effective drug policy that is not based on criminalisation.