Doctors, scientists, patients and families unite in a single cause: to eliminate cervical cancer. This documentary show…
An integrated team of specialists is at the center of palliative care, accompanying people of varying ages on their jou…
Due to an autoimmune disease, Julika has lived without hair since the age of 9. Now, at 25, we experience with her what…
After serving in Iraq and being diagnosed with Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD), a man tries to get his life back …
After becoming pregnant, a filmmaker confronts a ghost from the past: having another abortion. Suddenly, her mother and…
Scientists, doctors, natural and surrogate mothers, hospitals, fertilization labs. This fascinating documentary explain…
8-year-old Bowen is preparing for his third open heart surgery. He and his family hope that this time the surgery can g…
Maya has grown accustomed to being a hairless teenager. After being diagnosed with Alopecia areata, Maya tries to find …
After serving on the war front in Ukraine, Oksana Yakubova wages an invisible struggle with post-traumatic stress disor…
Despite being HIV positive, human rights activist Ortwin Passon is preparing a thesis to defend the right of people lik…
In this documentary, Cristóbal Jodorowski takes us into the world of psycoshamanism, a new current of healing that mixe…
Following a dream that revealed to him an indigenous massacre ordered by Abraham Lincoln in 1862, a Native American spi…
How much pain can you accumulate until you can't take it anymore? This light-hearted documentary follows an acting teac…
In the interior of a Japanese apartment where an art gallery operates, a daughter and her mother with dementia live day…
In World War II, a psychiatric asylum in France not only had to deal with the Nazi invasion. Its staff also pioneered …
From cyberbullying, to screen addiction and mental health, this is a must-see documentary for any parent who wants to l…
A few days away from death, terminally ill patients can spend their last days in a hospice in Seoul, South Korea. This …
When a man discovers he is suffering from an incurable disease, he embarks in a kind of farewell journey filming everyd…
Focusing on the experiences of three children with autism, this documentary is an intimate look at living as a family w…
Nine women recount their experiences in managing their mental health and madness. The documentary delves into how these…
Four people who have opted for plastic surgery to correct their bodies tell us about this experience in their personal …
Cancer survivor Melanie Griffith narrates this gripping and educational documentary about the invention that could save…
In a quest for independence, a group of amputees try out a new body with implants at a French rehabilitation center.
In a small town in Mexico, a doctor goes from house to house healing the sick. All free of charge.
In one of the countries most affected by the pandemic, a man faces a long quarantine in the solitude of his apartment. …
How to talk about sexual abuse? From where can a survivor tell about it without breaking into tears? This is a courageo…
Set in Almadén, a decaying Spanish mining town, this beautifully photographed black-and-white film follows the life of …
Ambulance drivers in Karachi, Pakistan, wait in tranquility until they are called into action. The images of the emerge…
In times where modern medicine has progressively intervened in maternal childbirth, a woman embarks on a journey where …
A renowned TV host uncovers the secrets of an iconic game show on the former East German television, back in the sixtie…
Filmed at the height of the Covid19 pandemic, a chorus of voices, including those of health care workers, paint a horri…
In the aftermath of the health catastrophe created by the pandemic, a group of experts support the case of Dr. Domenico…
How do those who cannot see with their eyes conceive the world? What other perspectives of what surrounds us can we lea…
Blending footage from the pre-COVID19 world and during the pandemic, this film delves into the lives of a motley crew o…
After going blind while grieving the loss of her two children, a seventy-eight year old woman decides to overcome the s…
A young filmmaker films her reunion with her father, an addicted man who has just been released from prison. Through ci…
This documentary follows the hectic daily life of a pediatric physiatrist responsible for the air medical urgency on wh…
After beating cancer, Sean Swarner takes on a major life challenge: conquering the North Pole and definitely becoming a…
In a building in Sao Paulo, Brazil, all the inhabitants are part of a program to overcome crack addiction. In every cor…
In the aftermath of the Fukushima nuclear power plant disaster, a Japanese filmmaker documents the radiation-free zone.…
After learning of his mother's cancer, filmmaker Filippo Filliger sets out in search of answers on a lonely and unpredi…
Filmmaker Otavio Cury documents the Yanomami, in the Brazilian Amazon. Seen from otherness, the film reflects on the Ya…
This documentary not only reviews the work of the revolutionary and controversial choreographer Dave St. Pierre, it al…
Through various pieces of contemporary dance, this short film illustrates the historical evolution of the treatment of …
Premiered at the Berlinale, this film takes us into the peaceful and thoughtful life in a retirement home that exists i…
How to depict the situation of being blind? This short film appeals to text and other cinematographic mechanisms to ill…
Given the little action of the state to support those who suffer from Parkinson's, a group of people try to manage thei…
Filmed in 1982, this iconic documentary follows for a year and a half the people of a remote community in North West Ne…
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