Illness Movies

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 look at the life of activist, musician, and cultural icon Kathleen Hanna, who formed the punk band Bikini Kill and pioneered the "riot grrrl"...

‘Voices from the Shadows’ shows the brave and sometimes heartrending stories of five ME patients and their carers, along with input from...

Desperate because of his son's illness, the peasant Eufemio steals a pearl from the image of Santa Lucía in the village church.

Having just lost her mother, Anna finds herself facing a nightmarish situation...a fur monster appears in her home. She will have to live with this...

Ognyan and Vera meet again after 10 years of separation. What unites them is a "time capsule" buried by them when they were children. Childhood...

Dusan and Laza are traveling through Eastern Serbia to Belgrade. Terminally ill, Dusan has to find a new home for his son Laza, to whom Dusan is all...

Two brothers, Paul and Elliot, embark on one last road trip together to Mammoth, California.

Drawing heavily from Arkady and Boris Strugatsky's 1971 novella 'Piknik na obochine' ('Roadside Picnic') as well as Andrei Tarkovsky's 1979 film...

A woman whose sister suffers from Bipolar Disorder.

Tuberculosis is the deadliest killer in human history, responsible for one in four deaths for almost two centuries. While it shaped medical pursuits,...

A young woman attempts to cook a family recipe by memory. This means remembering a difficult revelation with her mother.

an exploration of queerness and fear of illness through personal and shared experiences.

Overwhelmed by her husband’s medical bills, Sofia takes a desperate measure: she becomes an egoblogger.

Humans are story-telling creatures. By thinking, we all unconsciously "author" a self-story in our heads. Most often, the characters and plot of our...

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

It follows a chronically ill young woman who finds herself alone at rock bottom, struggling to come to terms with her diagnosis of multiple sclerosis...

I didn't worry about it, until the symptoms got worse. The doctors said I had no cure, I'd be sick for the rest of my life. I wish they had been...