Near Death
At the Medical Intensive Care Unit at Boston's Beth Israel Hospital, people face death. Sequences highlight the complex interrelationships among patients, families, doctors, nurses, hospital staff and religious advisors
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At the Medical Intensive Care Unit at Boston's Beth Israel Hospital, people face death. Sequences highlight the complex interrelationships among patients, families, doctors, nurses, hospital staff and religious advisors
A rural worker suffers an accident and understands that in a few minutes he is going to die. In absolute solitude and surrounded by a natural environment indifferent to his tragedy, he will face, without drama, the fact
This documentary traces the response to AIDS of gay activist groups in America and Britain. The film itself is also activist, giving platform to ACT UP, Queer Nation and Outrage, organisations fighting to keep AIDS and a
Hong Kong movie
A vignette about a 1912 fly-swatting contest organized by The Toronto Daily Star to draw attention to the danger posed to public health by flies. Through archival photographs and newspaper headlines the highlights of the
Death By Medicine takes a hard examination at the dominant medical paradigm contributing to America’s health crisis. Based on Gary Null’s ground breaking book on the hundreds of thousands of injuries and deaths caused by
Five years ago we began filming what has turned into the most extraordinary documentary. The Rev. George Exoo is a not very successful Unitarian minister from Beckley, West Virginia who has drifted into helping terminall
Where do we go when we die? The nostalgia of no longer being here will allow us to take a journey through longing and the memory of what is really part of life or what at some point was, a walk through the memory of a
During the zombie apocalypse, one survivor finds a dead end that will hopefully lead him to salvation.
"We were so close, we loved each other, we made a whole together. I feel cut in half." Meg struggles with the sudden death of her husband.
Azrael has guided countless souls into the afterlife, but has never understood why people choose to love, even though it always ends in loss. When he falls for a convenience store worker, one tragic night forces him to d
A coming-of-age drama about an unhappy teenager who is repressed by his conservative and ambitious family.
In the Special Cause of Death Department, six unusual shinigami tell the final stories of human's lives.
A pathological detective story in which two doctors, working in an autopsy lab, investigate the cause of death of a victim found dead in his apartment. A debate ensues as to whether or not the victim died of environmenta
A teenage skateboarder suffering from a recent family tragedy comes up with a money-making scheme that embroils him in something far bigger than he ever dreamed. Only his mum and emo ex-girlfriend can save him from a ter
A married couple throws a dinner party for their neighbors, with a special gumbo recipe on the menu.
Pop is Pop. Lesser, greater, middling… Makes no difference. The degree is arbitrary. The definition’s blurred. If I’m to choose between one artist and another… I’d rather not choose at all.
Feature-length documentary film about the California counter-culture movement, which toured college campuses in various film festivals of the time. Preserved by the Academy Film Archive in 2013.
As a deadly US-backed war raged in the 1980s, tens of thousands of Salvadorans made the Washington, DC, region their new home. This mass migration gave birth to a new artistic movement. Columbia Road in Adams Morgan beca
Following the death of his brother, a grieving funeral home owner’s momentary tranquillity is disrupted by the arrival of a mysterious body