Illness Movies

A family tragedy during the recession of 2008, catalyzed by unemployment, personal crisis, and illness.

A thriller with supernatural overtones about a man with a medical condition that causes him to black out during moments of extreme stress and leads...

Jordy, a 12 years old dreamer, has locked himself into the imaginary universe of his favorite movie, “Stand by me”. His elder brother...

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

In this powerful story, a teenage girl escapes reality through live action role-playing when her mother is suffering an illness, which will soon...

Ten-year-old Adam suffers from Juvenile Arthritis. To cope with the daily struggles of his illness Adam draws comics and retreats into his...

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

A successful businessman's life is turned upside down when he is diagnosed with cancer. On the verge of giving up, he forms an unlikely bond with a...

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...

An extraordinary video diary about living with AIDS documenting, with guts and humor, the love and dedication of longtime companions Tom Joslin and...

Trump’s declarations concerning Israel and a Palestinian immigrant’s uncle’s medical diagnosis conspire to throw the latter into...

A mysterious outbreak of tic disorders among young people leads Dr Robert Bartholomew to question whether social media is making us sick. Doctors...

Tivadar Csontváry Kosztka the one-ideaed Hungarian painter was thought to be crazy by his peers, but he eventually became a significant artist.

A patient with chronic anemia marries her doctor, but falls in love with his colleague.

Adaptation of Mayu Ohara's autobiography.

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...

In the vestibule of a hospital room, a young boy waits to see his dying mother. The clamor and spiralling movements of bodies around him intensify,...

Filmmaker Diego Gutiérrez knows that he is soon to lose two loved ones: his mother Gina Coppe and his best friend Danniel Danniel. Both ask...

Cameron Duncan wrote, directed and starred in this short film, the same year a lump in his knee turned out to be cancerous. Aged only 16, Duncan had...