Illness Movies

an exploration of queerness and fear of illness through personal and shared experiences.

This educational film combines medical information and story to teach the viewers about the prevention and treatment of syphilis. The four episodes...

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

The film "Sanitation: Why All The Fuss?" emphasizes the critical importance of sanitation in food handling for public health. It explains how...

A woman travels to Italy and tries to make a decision.

Andrea is devastated after learning her sister has leukemia, but a closer look will reveal that there is something hidden in her psyche.

A person brings their partner to a doctor to treat an unknown itching fever. Two men come to see the doctor, one of them suffering from insomnia....

Lou Colpé has been filming her grandparents since she was 15. In the process of this intense relationship, she notices some disconcerting...

Day after day, an elderly woman recalls the Spanish Basque country of her youth — while forgetting she is consigned to a retirement home in...

Fatma and her mother are Kurdish refugees living in Italy. One day at the hospital, Fatma learns her mother has breast cancer.

W. A. Mozart's childhood was very busy, connected with constant travelling, full of fame and admiration. His father Leopold, an accomplished...

I didn't worry about it, until the symptoms got worse. The doctors said I had no cure, I'd be sick for the rest of my life. I wish they had been...

A beautiful and vital film that tells the story of a young woman's fight with death.

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

Boris Buzančić plays an idealistic young doctor who is assigned a nearly deserted village. The backwards residents at first resent...

After waiting 74 years to ascend to the throne, Charles III fell ill less than a year after his coronation. The king's health is a cause for concern...

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

Aaron is a 19 year-old with a close relationship with his family. His grandmother Pilar has dementia and wants to return to Salcedillo, the village...