Illness Movies

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

Pico discovers black spots on his neck. He goes to the doctor. A trip to hell begins. His counterpart is a young and arrogant doctor, eager to make...

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...

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

Romania. Seven years in the life of a family of believers, struck by the illness of a little girl suffering from spina bifida pass before the camera,...

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

Alena falls mysteriously ill after Mira breaks off their secret relationship.

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

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....

Lutz Riewe provides a deep insight into his journey in the fight against panic attacks and cirrhosis of the liver. Doctors and important people from...

The amnion – the fetal membrane protecting the embryo – becomes a metaphor in the film for an intimate space where pain can be shared and...

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

Two brothers are going through financial difficulties to pay for their mother's medical treatment. One of them also has a significant debt that...

A fisherman's daughter has to accept her father's disease when she arrives at her childhood home and finds her father vulnerable and fragile.

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

A woman whose sister suffers from Bipolar Disorder.