Illness Movies

When our loved ones lose their strength and can no longer support us, it’s our turn to support them, and each other. Inspired by Tim's personal...

A woman whose sister suffers from Bipolar Disorder.

When the seven-year-old daughter of an architect falls ill with a rare but curable form of cancer, the family wants to give the child the best...

Brussels, La Monnaie Opera House. Three people near the end of their lives meet with choreographers, actors and musicians. They take part in a unique...

Told via Seussian poem, the short film exhibits the bravery of a person who has faced the ultimate adversity...a tummy ache.

A beautiful and vital film that tells the story of a young woman's fight with death.

Lou Colpé has been filming her grandparents since she was 15. In the process of this intense relationship, she notices some disconcerting...

An ant colony finds that the strange new food source they've discovered may be something more of a curse than a boon.

A mysterious outbreak of tic disorders among young people leads Dr Robert Bartholomew to question whether social media is making us sick. Doctors...

At a time where there were no alarm-clocks, an old men worked as an awaker. Every day he walked the long way from his house to the village until he...

Survivors presents an intimate portrait of Sierra Leone during the Ebola outbreak, exposing the complexity of the epidemic and the sociopolitical...

Marion is an artist with FSH, an incurable muscular myopathy. She guides us on the path she has taken to no longer identify with her illness.

Two brothers are going through financial difficulties to pay for their mother's medical treatment. One of them also has a significant debt that...

Jail of Flesh, is a documentary that delves into a rare neurological disease. It is fatal, incurable and what provokes it is unknown. Amyotrophic...

A simple organic fruit farmer Rong Guang (Wu Kang-Ren) is raising his son Feng (Chen Yu-Cheng) alone in a small rural community, although with poor...

Two lonely people at opposite chapters of life accidentally meet on a busy summer day in a Cairo taxi. Frail old Shawky and bubbly young Doaa are...

A group of educators led by Fernand Deligny are working to create contact with autistic children in a hamlet of the Cevennes.

Jane, a person with cancer gets supported by Gwen who shows her that the community still cares about her.