Londres, 1884. Le chirurgien Frederick Treves découvre un homme complètement défiguré et difforme, devenu une attraction de foire. John Merrick, «le monstre», doit son nom de Elephant Man au terrible accident que subit sa mère. Alors enceinte de quelques mois, elle est renversée par un éléphant. Impressionné par de telles difformités, le Dr. Treves achète Merrick, l'arrachant ainsi à la violence de son propriétaire, et à l'humiliation quotidienne d'être mis en spectacle. Le chirurgien pense alors que «le monstre» est un idiot congénital. Il découvre rapidement en Merrick un homme meurtri, intelligent et doté d'une grande sensibilité.
À la suite d'un accident dont il a été victime dans sa jeunesse, Ramón ne peut plus bouger que la tête. « Enfermé dans son corps », il vit depuis presque trente ans prostré dans un lit. Sa seule ouverture sur le monde est la fenêtre de sa chambre à travers laquelle il « voyage » jusqu'à la mer toute proche ; cette mer qui lui a tant donné et tout repris. Pourtant très entouré par sa famille, Ramón n'a plus qu'un seul désir : pouvoir décider de sa propre mort et terminer sa vie dans la dignité…
An uplifting feature documentary highlighting the transformative power of art and the beauty of the human spirit. Top-selling contemporary artist Vik Muniz takes us on an emotional journey from Jardim Gramacho, the world's largest landfill on the outskirts of Rio de Janeiro, to the heights of international art stardom. Vik collaborates with the brilliant catadores, pickers of recyclable materials, true Shakespearean characters who live and work in the garbage quoting Machiavelli and showing us how to recycle ourselves.
Après l'injuste condamnation à se faire hara-kiri infligée à un jeune samouraï, quarante-sept de ses compagnons le vengent en se faisant à leur tour hara-kiri sur sa tombe.
À l’époque du disco, Mexico possédait ses propres icônes de la nuit. Ce documentaire fait la lumière sur les vibrantes reines d’antan du cabaret mexicain.
ROLAND REBER’S CABARET OF DEATH paints a multi-layered picture of existence and puts the taboo subject of death back in line into the circle of life. In various storylines a ruined relationship crosses paths with an old man begging for euthanasia, a live show featuring candidates who are mercilessly sacrificed to the audience, a dancer who cannot escape ageing despite her self-optimization and the one with the mask who craves to be famous at all costs. And between all this, a corpse driver rolls his “clients” through a long corridor and shares his very personal and unaffected thoughts about life and dea
Golia is a former rugby champion suffering from dementia. every day he wakes up convinced that he is still young and is away with his team, only to learn that he is living inside a nursing home and has lost all contact with his wife and children. alessandro, another guest of the nursing home, is a former professor of ancient literature suffering from paraplegia. alessandro has one last ambition left: to help golia break out of the nursing home and reunite him with his family, overcoming the defense lines of the institution’s mean-spirited staff and showing the institutions how senility and illness are not valid pretexts for defining the social worthlessness of man.
Esma, mère célibataire et infirmière à domicile d’origine bosnienne, travaille en Allemagne depuis de nombreuses années. Le jour de l’anniversaire de sa fille, un décès bouleverse son emploi du temps et la confronte à une décision difficile.
A Finished Life: The Goodbye & No Regrets Tour is a feature length documentary about Gregg Gour, a 48-year-old gay man with AIDS, who, when given six months to live, takes the road trip of his life. Gregg had been HIV positive for 24 years and during that time the side effects of the medications made him increasingly sicker than the virus itself. In the last several years he felt that his quality of life had diminished considerably, so he choose to go off his meds and no longer fight death. After giving away all of his belongings, Gregg buys an RV and travels across the United States with his dog, Cody, saying goodbye to family and friends who have to come to terms with Gregg's decision: That rather than suffer a long, painful death, he will end his own life before allowing the progressing illness to take away his independence.
François Delisle draws an intimate portrait of his mother in a nursing home. A chronicle of the daily life and medical care of a woman approaching the end, treated with love, respect and dignity.