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.
How to talk about sexual abuse? From where can a survivor tell about it without breaking into tears? This is a courageo…
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…
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…
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…
The inhabitants of a neighborhood in Belgium unite in a great civil mission: to find and renovate a house so that the m…
Mladen and Maja seek their space in a society that rejects them. They also want their independence from the health syst…
When Vera is diagnosed with severe depression, the filmmaker Annelie Boros, one of her best friends, resorts to the cin…
This documentary makes visible the social problem that has caused the cultivation of opium in Myanmar and the desperate…
This Oscar-winning documentary short film made in 1949 poses an institutional approach to explain the role of the publi…
As the multiracial population increases in North America, mixed race blood cancer patients face the challenge of findin…
Constructed mostly of intimate micro-narratives of relations between people and institutions, this unique film unites a…
In New Zealand, three people seek answers about life on earth through extraordinary experiments, such as the constructi…
An intimate portrait of Sargy Mann, one of the most extraordinary painters of our time.
The author of this captivating documentary, a man at risk of losing the ability to see, makes a first-person essay on t…
The film documents the life aboard the ship Nicolai Pirogov, a floating hospital with the mission to bring medical atte…
Ghassem Takdehgham believes that he has invented the cure for cancer, an herbal medicine that he has been preparing for…
Sky, a boy with a severe hearing impairment, takes on the daily challenge of being a normal child.
Tova does not believe in love but exercises her matchmaker job with an admirable passion. Diagnosed with muscular dystr…
A Paralympic medalist and a quadriplegic man come together to trek thirty-five kilometers over the Tibetan plateau, a c…
The film presents the life and work of two sisters Grażyna and Violetta, who run a center for homeless men. The heart a…
Extravagantly expensive massaging mats, rejuvenating ampoules and sets of steam pots are only a few of the vast spectru…
POSTER GIRL is the story of Robynn Murray, an all-American Apple pie high-school cheerleader turned tough-as-nails mach…
A love story that begins when its lead characters, Antonio and Felisa, have been together for over 60 years and their d…
Yulia is a young mother of three girls, yet she always dreamed about a son. After her son’s death in childbirth, Yulia …
Along with several courageous psychiatrists and their clients, the author sets out to film a documentary road movie tha…
ALL WE EVER WANTED is a film about young, creative, ambitious people living the big-city-life. They seem to have it all…
When filmmaker Kathy Leichter moved back into her childhood home after her mother's suicide, she discovered a hidden bo…
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