Illness Movies

A lonely woman's prank phone call leads to an unexpected friendship with a grieving widow.

Inside the dramatic search for a cure to ME/CFS (Myalgic Encephalomyelitis/Chronic Fatigue Syndrome). 17 million people around the world suffer from...

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

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.

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

Tetsuo Togami is in the 2nd grade of high school. Due to a fight, he is hospitalized. There, he meets Maiko Takashiro. She has an incurable disease....

To keep using their school's abandoned observatory as a refuge, two sleepless high school students decide to revive the defunct astronomy club.

Golf never wanted a brother. Bank just wanted to be loved. What grew between them changed both boys forever.

The disappearance of three teddy bears brings eight lonely hearts together. Tiring of serving people, Peter, a tour guide, brings Teddy Bears that...

A struggling actor's life is turned upside down when his estranged mother appears on his doorstep with a terminal illness.

Survivors presents an intimate portrait of Sierra Leone during the Ebola outbreak, exposing the complexity of the epidemic and the sociopolitical...

Three girls meet by chance in a hospital. Struggling to come to terms with their fate, they all look back on a decisive moment in their life: Sara, a...

Teenager Calvin gets drawn into a cult that worships youth but threatens adults. His father struggles to rescue him - but Calvin may not want saving.

A short film about what it’s like to work in an emergency department at a large hospital in Stockholm.

First published in 1922, Margery Williams' enchanting story about a toy rabbit is a classic of children's literature. This gentle rendition comes...

During a vacation in the United States, the protagonist is seized by severe abdominal pain that forces him to return to Italy in a daring way and to...

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

Two women set out on a road trip across the American West. Junior is trying to let go of her past. Mads is trying to find hers. Their long journey...