In a primary school classroom, teacher Liliane anxiously awaits an important phone call. Her student Mathieu is even more of a disturbance than usual, but after Liliane receives a distressing call from the hospital, Mathieu rallies the students to turn a difficult day for Liliane into a magical one.
A simple organic fruit farmer Rong Guang (Wu Kang-Ren) is raising his son Feng (Chen Yu-Cheng) alone in a small rural community, although with poor harvests and little money, their lifestyle is meagre. Elsewhere Feng’s mother Yi Ying (Alice Tzeng), now a successful businesswoman is being...
The films was inspired by true events. Przemyslaw Saleta, World's Kickboxing Champion and European Champion in professional boxing gave a kidney to his seriously ill daughter. There were unexpected complications during the surgery and Saleta almost died. The movie starts when Saleta learns about...
In an early 19th century African village, Wend Kuuni – a young man, lives with his adopted family after his mother was killed as a witch. When Pughneere – his adopted sister – becomes ill, the villagers suspect Wend Kuuni. In order to save Pughneere's life (and his own) he must set out on a...
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 where she was born and lived until they decided to move to Barcelona, but her husband and daughter refuse. Unable to accept his grandmother’s...
Boris Buzančić plays an idealistic young doctor who is assigned a nearly deserted village. The backwards residents at first resent Buzančić's new-fangled methods. Gradually, he proves his worth and wins their confidence. The clincher comes when Buzančić rids the community of a despotic...
Ten-year-old Adam suffers from Juvenile Arthritis. To cope with the daily struggles of his illness Adam draws comics and retreats into his imagination. As the courageous Wonder Boy! Adam fights alongside the heroic Captain Wonder against the notoriously evil Dr. Itis. As Adam’s illness progresses...
Dusan and Laza are traveling through Eastern Serbia to Belgrade. Terminally ill, Dusan has to find a new home for his son Laza, to whom Dusan is all he has.
A rational young man and his devoutly Catholic wife believe their sickly son may have leukemia. As they await further tests over a weekend they both struggle with a crisis of faith in both science and Catholicism.
Monks at remote Lansley Abbey face crisis when plague victims become undead. As refugees seek shelter and infected attack, the brothers clash over helping the sick versus protecting ancient knowledge.
A man decides to jump off a building, diagnosed with a terminal illness. On the rooftop, he has a seizure and goes through immense suffering. A savior for him is a woman he meets, also in pain and on the verge. They spend a night together. In the morning, he leaves to avoid adding pain to her life.
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 right.
It follows a chronically ill young woman who finds herself alone at rock bottom, struggling to come to terms with her diagnosis of multiple sclerosis while searching for the strength to push forward with her dreams before it's too late.
Ralf wakes up sick on his birthday, so he wants to rest at home. However, there he is disturbed by various people and his headache makes his birthday hell.
‘Voices from the Shadows’ shows the brave and sometimes heartrending stories of five ME patients and their carers, along with input from Dr Nigel Speight, Prof Leonard Jason and Prof Malcolm Hooper. These were filmed and edited between 2009 and 2011, by the brother and mother of an ME patient...
A fist-person story of the director of the documentary, who talks about the loneliness that entails living with an eating disorder and her vision now thar she is entering into adulthood.
