Illness Movies

After a decade of ignoring his family, a young filmmaker has to care for his father, newly diagnosed with Alzheimer's, for the first time.

Life of young Bronja, living in the '70s changed when her mother dies of cancer. After a childhood marked by the loss of her mother, her grown up...

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

At 17, Jérémy dreams of becoming a filmmaker and shares an incredibly close bond with his older brother Théo, a rising rap...

Ivan uses experimental meditation to induce out-of-body experiences that might make it possible for him to escape a mysterious illness. His training...

After witnessing an old dark stormy cloud painfully rain and die in sorrow; Noma, a puffy white cloud realizes that Mixtli, her daughter, a dark...

When Elliot, a brash 23-year-old living carefree in New York City, meets the sensible Mia and receives a damning diagnosis all in the same week, his...

A Greek American father of a dying boy decides to take his son to Greece to breathe the clean air of his ancestors, in an attempt to save the boy's...

Visa Vuorio, a 35-year old team leader at the Helsinki city gardening department, is suffering from a terminal neurological disease and only has a...

Peter Winter is a young schizophrenic who is desperately trying to get his daughter back from her adoptive family. He attempts to function in a world...

After their father dies, a family of five children are forced to survive on their own in a Kurdish village on the border of Iran and Iraq.

The amnion – the fetal membrane protecting the embryo – becomes a metaphor in the film for an intimate space where pain can be shared and...

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

Called a maverick, a miracle-worker, and a quack, Dr. Marty Goldstein is a pioneer of integrative veterinary medicine. By holistically treating...

Shipped off to a Romanian orphanage to finish his sentence, a British criminal finds romance but also discovers corruption inside the facility.

Inés, Irene and Ivonne gather at their mother's house to attend their father's funeral; they will not return until a year after for the...

Just after WW2, a romance between an innkeeper and a man with tuberculosis unravels near a thermal spring.

A father intends to save the life of his own son, by paying out a new type of suicide life insurance.

Diego is a film director who, when he is told that he has a malignant disease which could be fatal, marries his girlfriend of many years, says...

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.