Janneke has been working as a volunteer in palliative terminal care for over twenty years, both in the hospice and in people's homes. In The Night Watchman we see Janneke both in her daily life and while waking. Scenes in which surprising parallels and paradoxes show Janneke's position in her life and how they seem to embrace death at first sight.
Memento Mori is a morbidly beautiful journey into the world of alternative post mortem arrangements ...
Lou Colpé has been filming her grandparents since she was 15. In the process of this intense relatio...
Christopher Kerr is a hospice doctor. All of his patients die. Yet he has cared for thousands of pat...
This is Jon Alpert's portrait of his father's struggles with growing old and nearing the end of life...
Brussels, La Monnaie Opera House. Three people near the end of their lives meet with choreographers,...
A heartwarming and comedic look at a unique father and son relationship. Documentary director Bryan ...
When filmmaker Debra Chasnoff faces stage-4 cancer, she turns her lens on herself and the disease. W...
This film is about the experience of dying. Five terminal patients in a Palliative Care Unit share t...
At Baycrest, an old-age home in Toronto, we follow a social worker as she talks to residents, partic...
Filmmaker Diego Gutiérrez knows that he is soon to lose two loved ones: his mother Gina Coppe and hi...
Switzerland is the only country in the world that allows foreigners to come and die on its territory...
Portrait of the last year of the life of famous New York drag queen Consuela Cosmetic.
Röbi has lung cancer and only a few months to live. He does not want chemotherapy or radiation. The ...
A raw and telling portrait of a people left behind by the modern world, inspired by the work of phot...
A nightwatchman who works at a pesticide plant manipulates chemicals (of which he treats a strange g...