Documentary about a sister who becomes a sheep herder in the Pyrenees.
A young man is diagnosed with a tumor in his pancreas and doesnt have the insurance to pay for it, his three best friends take matters into their own hands and start making money to pay for the surgery in their own way. With one small mistake comes a big consequnce.
Death is a disease, growing from the inside beneath the Shell. Cursed blessings trickling down tubes, pushing hope through weak veins. Waiting for blissful Heaven to return. Heaven is Hell.
Two young women, Alix and Tina, decide to go on a trip with their dog Pippo. They are given a hitchhike by Felix, but have no idea what is in the trunk of his car. Is their friendship strong enough to survive the (un)fortunate circumstances?
A documentary that records the daily life of a mother with a limited life expectancy and a grandmother, directed by the daughter, Haruyo Kato.
Roman and Alex wind down from a New Years Eve party that lasted long into the night. Alex has to find a way to tell Roman that he has been diagnosed with cancer and has surgery in the morning. A surgery from which he will most likely will not wake up.
Sahar, an Iranian girl who has recently broken up with her fiancé, has decided to spend some time by herself in Antalya, Turkey. Leaving a club late at night, assuming that she is rich, she gets kidnapped and held in a remote basement. The kidnappers go greedy on the ransom, but little they know is that the whole setup has been a misunderstanding from both parties in the first place.
Theatre director, actor and dramaturge Peter Snickars has a brain tumor of an aggressive type. This film follows him and his family from the moment of discovery to the end.
chronicles the life of Josh Keogh, a 15-year-old whose family was shattered when his father died of liver cancer only six weeks after being diagnosed. Filmed over the course of a year, the documentary begins only a few months after James Keogh's death and candidly captures the emotions the grieving son hid from his family and friends.
After a teen boy expresses his feelings for his lifelong best friend, he goes to "supernatural" lengths to avoid rejection. Careful what you wish for.
Jose has got testicle cancer. For him, this is jut another reason to laugh and not to take things too seriusly. He will find the way to make his other 3 roomates deal with the situation in a similar way.
An array of charismatic people articulate their pure and essential views about the disease of Cancer. The medical, ethical, psychological and social aspects are coherently interwoven in this thorough, and poetic, approach to the subject. In this film the 'main character' is the disease itself, portrayed through the collective motivation of people who fight the same enemy on many different fronts.
Dying for the Other is a video triptych, documenting the lives of mice used in breast cancer research and humans suffering from the same disease. In order to produce this video, da Costa documented scenes of her own life during the summer of 2011 and combined them with footage taken at a breast cancer research facility in New York City over the same time frame.
Cancer rears its head in the lives of Raymond and Raymond, a gay couple that have already had to deal with HIV/AIDS for many years. They find themselves having to reinvent their lives within a circle of friends and relationships that is not always so easy to redefine. A simple and moving story of an attempt to rebuild lives.
After his cancer diagnosis, an old man is given six months to live. His granddaughter’s camera gently captures his sense of belonging in China — the place he left behind but never forgot — and the story of his family in Singapore.
The annual cancer awareness fundraiser is about bringing the community together and honoring and remembering those who have fought cancer. This film is a tribute to Relay For Life supporters and their families.
A sus 78 años, Oscar continúa siendo un apasionado de la tecnología, durante su larga vida ha compartido sus conocimientos en la televisión, radio y prensa, siguiendo cada paso del mundo tecnológico, pero un cáncer de piel detuvo todos sus proyectos periodísticos, haciéndolo vivir en carne propia el mal estado del sistema de salud en Colombia.
A mother has cancer that will slowly eat her away until she eventually dies. She turns to her son, Ricky to help her die and they plan one final evening in together where he will cook her favourite food before he helps her.
Akbari was diagnosed with breast cancer in 2007 and she lost her breasts due to the cancer. After she directed, wrote and acted 10+4 which showed her struggle with the cancer, the depiction of the artists body became central in her works. In the same year, Akbari photographed her own naked body for the photo project titled Devastation. Although it was pretty risky, put herself in danger and prohibited to exhibit Devastation in Iran due to the naked images of her own body, Akbari continued to depict her own body as a new medium and new material so that she provided a video secretly as well. In 2012, after Akbari left Iran due to the barred situation of filmmaking and arresting film makers, she uses the video that shoot secretly from her own body in 2007 and juxtaposed with new images and the song of Ahangaran, who was a singer for the war time between Iran and Iraq. As a result of her action and performance, the video project titled In my country, Men Do Have Breasts happened.