Summary
New screening dates for Summer 2025 where the public can watch Christian Frei’s Movie Blame, featuring NHG’s President Dr. Peter Daszak
“Blame” is a documentary movie by the Oscar-nominated, Sundance Festival award winning Swiss Director Christian Frei. The film focuses on three scientists, Dr. Zhengli Shi formerly of the Wuhan Institute of Virology, Dr. Linfa Wang of Duke-NUS Singapore, and myself. It tells the story of how we formed a collaboration back in the early 2000s to try and understand the origins of SARS which caused global panic when it emerged in Southern China in 2003. For more details about the movie, the message, and the people behind it, see article in Nature Health Global’s News Section, and the official Blame website.
Crew of Blame, the documentary movie by Christian Frei. Credit Dominic Nahr
Christian Frei, Award-winning Director of the movie Blame
The film premiered at the documentary film festival Visions du Réel in Nyon Switzerland, where it was selected as the opening movie. It’s now traversing the globe in the film festival circuit. It’s been shown in São Paulo at the É Tudo Verdade/It’s All True festival and was awarded the Grand Prix at the 5th Contemporary Science Film Festival in Moscow. It received a glowing review in Variety, headlined by a quote from Christian Frei “In a world where nothing is true anymore, everything becomes possible.”
BLAME FESTIVAL TOUR – UPDATED SCREENING DATES, BOOKING INFO
Blame is currently being shown in festivals around the world. These are public events, and tickets can be booked by visiting the websites below. The movie will likely to be released more widely later in 2025. Keep checking back to this blog for updates and more information!
MAY SCREENINGS
GERMANY
May 9: German premiere at the Deutsches Theater in Munich (1500 seats)
May 9-16: Five additional screenings in Munich and Augsburg
- Friday 9th May, 9pm Deutsches Theater, Followed by Q&A with Blame Director Christian Frei
- Saturday 10th May, 6:30pm HFF – Kino
- Sunday 11th May, 8pm Thalia Filmtheater Augsburg
- Wednesday 14th May, 8:30pm City 2, Followed by Q&A with Blame Director Christian Frei
- Friday 16th May, 9pm Rio 1, Followed by Q&A with Blame Director Christian Frei
POLAND
“Millennium Docs Against Gravity” This is the second largest documentary film festival in Europe and is being held this year at three cities across Poland
Visit here for program and booking details.
May 10: Łódź, Followed by Q&A with Blame Director Christian Frei
May 11 and 12: Warsaw
May 13: Gdańsk
JUNE SCREENINGS
ITALY
The CinemAmbiente “Other Worlds” Festival, Torino
June 8: Italian premiere, 4pm Director Christian Frei will be present
JULY SCREENINGS
NEW ZEALAND
Extensive screenings at the Doc Edge NZ festival:
Tickets can be booked online here
July 3: Asia-Pacific premiere, 8:15pm, The Capitol Cinema, Auckland
July 11: 8pm, Bridgeway Cinema 3, Auckland
July 20: 11am, The Roxy Cinema, Wellington
July 20: 11am, Lumiere Bernhardt, Christchurch
July 28 – Aug 24: Virtual Cinema, NZ
FURTHER INFORMATION ABOUT BLAME
To keep up to date with listings, reviews, awards etc. for the movie, please follow Christian Frei on his public Facebook page, checkout the official Blame website, and check in regularly with with this UPDATE page – we’re going to post all future screenings of the movie, and any other updates of interest!
Thank you for your support!
The Nature Health Global communications team
BLAME by Christian Frei – Official Press Photo – Credit Adam Dean for Christian Frei Filmproductions