Illness Movies

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

During a vacation in the United States, the protagonist is seized by severe abdominal pain that forces him to return to Italy in a daring way and to...

The disappearance of three teddy bears brings eight lonely hearts together. Tiring of serving people, Peter, a tour guide, brings Teddy Bears that...

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

Boris Buzančić plays an idealistic young doctor who is assigned a nearly deserted village. The backwards residents at first resent...

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...

When Maria meets Niels for the first time, he comes across as an angry and unsympathetic young man. His chronic illness has been concentrated into a...

Daniel is ten years old and is very ill. His parents need to find a donor for a liver transplant, nobody is willing to help, they have little time...

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

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

In an early 19th century African village, Wend Kuuni – a young man, lives with his adopted family after his mother was killed as a witch. When...

A melodrama about a painter who is infected with syphilis, refuses treatment, turns to the use instead of narcotics, and withers away.

A professional novelist struggles to resolve an increasingly burdensome family situation, and his relationship with his partner, all the while...

A woman whose sister suffers from Bipolar Disorder.

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...

Serious health issues and cultural resistance to inter-ethnic marriage test a young couple's relationship.

It tells the story of a group of young men who are wounded by the events of the terrible events of their 18 years of life, including being branded as...

A thirteen-year-old girl named Daisy, who suffers from terminal Epidermolysis Bullosa, meets Stinky, a British war veteran and drug addict. Like...

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

Alena falls mysteriously ill after Mira breaks off their secret relationship.