5B is the first film to celebrate the efforts of a group of nurses and health care professionals who defied the fear when AIDS first reared its ugly head in 1983. 5B is the ward at San Francisco General Hospital where touching and physical contact became the norm. Elsewhere victims, who were desperately in pain and covered in lesions, were treated like lepers. 5B is surprisingly upbeat, and compelling. Co-directed by Dan Krauss and Oscar winner Paul Haggis, the film elicits a strong emotional response from viewers and has a clear resonance for America today. In Cannes, where the …