Illness Movies

The diary of a typical non-stop working day of a wartime district nurse.

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

Jail of Flesh, is a documentary that delves into a rare neurological disease. It is fatal, incurable and what provokes it is unknown. Amyotrophic...

A simple organic fruit farmer Rong Guang (Wu Kang-Ren) is raising his son Feng (Chen Yu-Cheng) alone in a small rural community, although with poor...

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

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

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

An animated science-fiction short directed by Matthew Hood. A mechanical man finds his routine of life disturbed by illness from an unusual source.

Lotte (18) and Roos (16) are sisters and both have Usher syndrome. That means they will soon become deaf and blind. It is not known how fast that...

Centered around a soldier returning home from deployment to find his boyfriend diagnosed with stage three Leukemia.

The Invisible Illness is an in-depth study on life with Endometriosis. Endometriosis is a disease where tissue similar to uterine lining grows in...

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

A paediatrician asks Louis 'to brush the teddy's toes', indicating that Louis's own are somehow developing differently......