In de vergaderzaal van het Pathologisch Instituut van Londen stelt de jonge chirurg Frederick Treves aan een groep dokters een gruwelijk uitziend wezen voor. De man is zo misvormd dat hij gedoemd is zijn leven te slijten als kermisattractie.
Ramón ligt al bijna 30 jaar krachteloos in zijn bed, onder de hoede van zijn familie. Zijn enige uitzicht op het leven is het raam van zijn kamer, vlakbij de zee die hij ooit zo graag bereisde en waar hij het ongeluk kreeg dat een einde maakte aan zijn jeugd.
In 1701, Lord Takuminokami Asano has a feud with Lord Kira and he tries to kill Kira in the corridors of the Shogun's palace. The Shogun sentences Lord Asano to commit suppuku and deprives the palace and lands from his clan, but does not punish Lord Kira. Lord Asano's vassals leave the land and his samurais become ronin and want to seek revenge against the dishonor of their Lord. But their leader Kuranosuke Oishi asks the Shogun to restore the Asano clan with his brother Daigaku Asano. One year later, the Shogun refuses his request and Oishi and forty-six ronin revenge their Lord.
An uplifting feature documentary highlighting the transformative power of art and the beauty of the human spirit. Top-selling contemporary artist Vik Muniz takes us on an emotional journey from Jardim Gramacho, the world's largest landfill on the outskirts of Rio de Janeiro, to the heights of international art stardom. Vik collaborates with the brilliant catadores, pickers of recyclable materials, true Shakespearean characters who live and work in the garbage quoting Machiavelli and showing us how to recycle ourselves.
Golia is a former rugby champion suffering from dementia. every day he wakes up convinced that he is still young and is away with his team, only to learn that he is living inside a nursing home and has lost all contact with his wife and children. alessandro, another guest of the nursing home, is a former professor of ancient literature suffering from paraplegia. alessandro has one last ambition left: to help golia break out of the nursing home and reunite him with his family, overcoming the defense lines of the institution’s mean-spirited staff and showing the institutions how senility and illness are not valid pretexts for defining the social worthlessness of man.
In de tijd van de disco had Mexico zijn eigen sterren van de nacht. Deze documentaire werpt een nieuw licht op de voormalige koninginnen van de Mexicaanse nachtclubs.
ROLAND REBER’S CABARET OF DEATH paints a multi-layered picture of existence and puts the taboo subject of death back in line into the circle of life. In various storylines a ruined relationship crosses paths with an old man begging for euthanasia, a live show featuring candidates who are mercilessly sacrificed to the audience, a dancer who cannot escape ageing despite her self-optimization and the one with the mask who craves to be famous at all costs. And between all this, a corpse driver rolls his “clients” through a long corridor and shares his very personal and unaffected thoughts about life and dea
François Delisle draws an intimate portrait of his mother in a nursing home. A chronicle of the daily life and medical care of a woman approaching the end, treated with love, respect and dignity.
When mobile nurse Esma finds one of her patients dead, the strictly timed schedule of her day is thrown off balance. Between professional ethics and family obligations, she is faced with a difficult decision.
A Finished Life: The Goodbye & No Regrets Tour is a feature length documentary about Gregg Gour, a 48-year-old gay man with AIDS, who, when given six months to live, takes the road trip of his life. Gregg had been HIV positive for 24 years and during that time the side effects of the medications made him increasingly sicker than the virus itself. In the last several years he felt that his quality of life had diminished considerably, so he choose to go off his meds and no longer fight death. After giving away all of his belongings, Gregg buys an RV and travels across the United States with his dog, Cody, saying goodbye to family and friends who have to come to terms with Gregg's decision: That rather than suffer a long, painful death, he will end his own life before allowing the progressing illness to take away his independence.