Illness Movies

An extraordinary video diary about living with AIDS documenting, with guts and humor, the love and dedication of longtime companions Tom Joslin and...

The diary of a typical non-stop working day of a wartime district nurse.

Lotte (18) and Roos (16) are sisters and both have Usher syndrome. That means they will soon become deaf and blind. It is not known how fast that...

The fight against breast cancer has inspired this story, in which Silvia, finds reasons to celebrate when she meets Rafa

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...

Ten-year-old Adam suffers from Juvenile Arthritis. To cope with the daily struggles of his illness Adam draws comics and retreats into his...

Romania. Seven years in the life of a family of believers, struck by the illness of a little girl suffering from spina bifida pass before the camera,...

A man decides to jump off a building, diagnosed with a terminal illness. On the rooftop, he has a seizure and goes through immense suffering. A...

A woman whose sister suffers from Bipolar Disorder.

A fisherman's daughter has to accept her father's disease when she arrives at her childhood home and finds her father vulnerable and fragile.

An exploration of the interconnected experiences of queerness and illness, this film navigates personal and collective journeys through medical...

The film "Sanitation: Why All The Fuss?" emphasizes the critical importance of sanitation in food handling for public health. It explains how...

Pico discovers black spots on his neck. He goes to the doctor. A trip to hell begins. His counterpart is a young and arrogant doctor, eager to make...

Julião is a young farm worker who, one day, contracts leprosy. Overnight, the good mountaineers that were so friendly with him refuse to see...

Ralf wakes up sick on his birthday, so he wants to rest at home. However, there he is disturbed by various people and his headache makes his birthday...

Centered around a soldier returning home from deployment to find his boyfriend diagnosed with stage three Leukemia.

In a primary school classroom, teacher Liliane anxiously awaits an important phone call. Her student Mathieu is even more of a disturbance than...

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