Gabriel Kahane's deeply personal feature debut chronicles a lawbreaking teenager (Justin Mark) forced to work at a wig shop for cancer patients owned by the warm-hearted Susan (Catherine Curtin), where he befriends a guarded woman (Holly Heiser) who irreversibly alters the course of his life. It's a film that gives an honest peek into the often bleak (albeit exceedingly human) Upstate existence of Benji, his drug addicted, alcoholic mother, absentee father, and the others in his orbit.
This moving film for Stand Up To Cancer follows The Wanted's Tom Parker as he and his family learn to live with Tom's brain tumour diagnosis and Tom arranges a star-studded charity concert.
Are paranormal experiences real? Can being 'spiritual' help with the way you feel about death, dying and grief? This British film, from the university that pioneered distance learning through BBC Television, explores themes of spiritual healing and the differing views on life after death.
Noah had the perfect life – nice car, great job, and a beautiful fiancé. Then, he learns she is cheating at the same time he learns his father is clinging to life in hospice care with cancer. Now hopelessly lost, he befriends a homeless man named Walter and decides to help him restart his life in northern Michigan and loose himself in the trip. Noah hopes that along the way, he will also find himself again. In a world where society is moving incredibly fast, two new friends go on the journey of their lives.
Based on the autobiographical notes by Leonhard Lentz the film tells the story of a man who was diagnosed with throat cancer. Besides the progress of the desease this film also focuses on the emotions and insights of the protagonist while being in therapy.
When a stubborn old man and a fretful teenaged girl are forced to share a hospital room, an unexpected friendship forms over their hatred of fake cheerfulness and bad hospital food.
Brother and sister Steven (Joseph Rene) and Samantha (Marci Journey) have had to make many sacrifices to survive while taking care of their dying mother. But when they're on the verge of losing their home that's been in the family for generations, they each unknowingly take extreme measures to save it.
THE FOOD CURE presents an intimate portrait of six cancer patients who make the radical decision to turn their backs on conventional medicine and put their faith in a controversial alternative cancer treatment based on food.
Sahar, an Iranian girl who has recently broken up with her fiancé, has decided to spend some time by herself in Antalya, Turkey. Leaving a club late at night, assuming that she is rich, she gets kidnapped and held in a remote basement. The kidnappers go greedy on the ransom, but little they know is that the whole setup has been a misunderstanding from both parties in the first place.
The Common Touch tells the story of Jake Bailey, viral sensation and student of Christchurch Boys High School, who was told one week before his graduation speech about his diagnosis of life-threatening cancer.
Guarded and aloof cancer survivor is trying to return to the normal life and forget the horrors of the defeated disease that are still haunting her. She finds a new job but it seems that she has nothing in common with other people. Socially withdrawing herself, she is stuck inside her own world filled with despair and flashbacks.
En 2009, Jochen Fölster, comédien et metteur en scène de théâtre, se découvre atteint d’un cancer du poumon. Habité par un puissant désir de vie, il se bat contre la maladie qui le diminue peu à peu, aux côtés de sa fille et de son épouse, Roswitha Ziegler. C’est la caméra de cette dernière qui le suivra, de l’automne 2009 au mois de février 2013, jusqu’à son dernier jour.
A feature length documentary which covers all aspects of holistic cancer treatments and the main causes of cancer. More than 30 Presenters, leading doctors in the field of holistic cancer treatments, Nutritionists, Naturopaths, Scientists, Health Advocates, Psychologists share their knowledge with you how to prevent and reverse cancer. This film gives you insights about our present health system and the undeniable mistakes in treating cancer as well as a comprehensive holistic healing approach to cancer never seen before. "Cancer is Curable Now " informs about all options you have for you and your family's health in curing, treating or preventing cancer as well as all other degenerative diseases. Being informed could save your life.
When it was announced in May of 2016 that lead singer Gord Downie had been diagnosed with terminal brain cancer, the band decided that they would do one final run of 15 dates across Canada. A National Celebration was the final show of the Tragically Hip's Man Machine Poem Tour recorded on August 20th, 2016 at the K-Rock Centre in their home town of Kingston Ontario. Originally aired live by CBC across all platforms, the concert was experienced by an estimated one-third of Canadians, among the biggest events in the country's broadcast history.
A recently widowed Mr. Jordan finds himself stuck in the health system as he battles cancer alone.
In June 2022, comedian Rhod Gilbert was diagnosed with a little-known form of head and neck cancer. This is the story of his intimate, inspiring and humorous journey through treatment.
A documentary examining the end of live for five hospice patients and their families.
A shocking and informative expose of the "Cancer Industry" and the "Western Diet".
After a teen boy expresses his feelings for his lifelong best friend, he goes to "supernatural" lengths to avoid rejection. Careful what you wish for.
When Cody's father is diagnosed with cancer, he turns to the Titanic Soundtrack to express himself while the adults around him scramble to provide meaning and comfort to him.