Death

Sweet Death follows Dr.Philip Nitschke, euthanasia’s top advocate who loses his medical license and decides to try stand up comedy. Meanwhile, Kathy who after attending one of Dr. Nitschkes workshops, travels to Tijuana to buy the means to die peacefully if she inherits her mother's...

Dani is a young geriatric assistant who starts his new job in an old nursing home taking care of Marisa, an elderly woman in the last few hours of her life. Dani aims to use the situation to get hold of some of the old woman’s jewels and valuables, and unleash some of his most personal perversions. However, Dani may have chosen the wrong...

Eugenie is at her grandmother’s wake. She grieves, but also wonders if there is a way for her to see grandmother again. It takes her on a quest into the pine grove and Grandma's house where memories of their time together are still alive. While the memories fade, Eugenie realizes that Grandma will always be with her, but in a different...

The fortuitous meeting of three women in a hospital waiting room will mark their lives forever. They don't know each other and neither can believe what is about to...

SAHRA, an Afghan refugee girl in Canada asks an Iranian ex-dentist HAMED to extract her father's gold teeth before they bury...

Jim is going insane, he has been in the hospital forever. When the doctor finally arrives with his tests, the results are unexpected. A matter of laugh or...

Death causes us so much fear and confusion that we can hardly look it in the face. In our aseptic societies, pain and suffering tend to be covered up. Although it was not always like that. In fact, until the late 20th century it was customary to photograph the dead in places all around the world, from the United States and Europe to Latin America. Something that today is rather unknown, had its reason for being. The representation of the deceased was a way to mitigate the sorrow for the death...

A camel, on a quest to find his missing wife in the desert, faces the dilemma of chasing his treasure or continuing his journey. It’s the story of how someone recognizes the most important thing in life amid chaos caused by...

The world of Lili, an introverted 11 years old girl, has been falling apart due to the disappearance of her...

A lighthouse keeper prepares for his earthly funeral while trying to reconnect the elf within. Hulda and Trausti have shared a roof on Icelandic shores for over seventy years. Her love of books is matched by his love of stones. When he bursts out singing, she begs him to stop screaming. When he tells her he wants to change his name to "Elf", she warns that his family will abandon him. Now, as Trausti’s hundredth birthday approaches and he senses the hand of death upon him he is on a quest to...

Everyday Sara comes across Tobias on the way to the museum where she works. One morning she accepts his invitation for a coffee. She does not expect it will be the first of several rendezvous that will affect her feelings in a deeper...

Middle aged sisters Carmen and Julia endure their last days with their father, who is terminally...

From the memory of the performers and artists Fernando Fernán Gómez and Emma Cohen, this short documentary poetically explores the relationships the living maintain with those no longer...

Wounded by the death of her mother, Yasmine, an introverted teenager, takes refuge in silence and depression. Her aunt, who suddenly takes on the role of the new mother for her and her little sister Sonia, can’t channel her...

A convict awaiting death who doesn’t jump at an opportunity for rescue doesn’t make sense. Unless he has another...

In a remote town where gypsies come and go, Roberta receives a call about her husband’s sudden death. She becomes consumed with the uncertainty of her...

Chen Jianguo (Foundation of the Republic) and Jian Ping Liu (Small Law) are two men who frequent the Center of Chinese Elders of Usera, in Madrid. During the preparations for the Chinese New Year, one of them dies and a series of electrical problems begins to happen in the club that threaten to spoil the...

As they do every afternoon Encarna and Rosario meet up to have churros for afternoon snack in their neighbourhood café. However, today is a special day. Today they’ll be changing their usual conversation...

Miguel, a 27th young man, woke up one morning with the job of processing his death father intestate succession certificate. When he arrive to the registration office, the process and their public servers show him that the bureaucracy it seems like a joke, but isn't, putting him in a labyrinth of papers and...

Jennifer Rockwell, a profesional sports woman trained with the strictest of discipline, willpower and sacrifice, has a plan, a plan to reach the pinnacle of her career, the most difficult that you could possibly...

Louis scapes from Amber's relationship looking for his new tinder target, Jennifer. This time he only can arrive there by Uber with Peter driving. Although these are not his only intentions in this trip, that changes their destiny...

More than 40 years after the end of its last military dictatorship (1976-1983), a discovery has been made in the north of Argentina, in the province of Tucuman: the human remains of people who disappeared during those years are starting to emerge. La noche del mundo focuses on Pozo de Vargas, a clandestine common grave used for an unknown period of time, where more than 70 people were thrown, some of them even...

For all of us, life is a film with a predictable ending. With 7 billion future clients in mind, Spanish and Portuguese companies from the funeral sector meet every year in Ourense to show off their latest products and services. There are diamond-studded and mink-lined coffins, hardwood urns, Swarovski crosses as gifts and luxury cars for a high-class public. No, in death we are not all equal, although obviously it comes to the rich as it does the poor in the end. In The Final Fair, morbid...

Rosa tries to recall her mother by cooking the pestiños recipe she always prepared, with no success. She has invited her sisters, Beatriz and Isabel, to help her, even though they don’t speak to each other. Neither one knows that the other one is going to be there, and they can’t imagine how much Rosa wants to eat those pestiños...

Sergio works at a funeral home. One night his life takes an unexpected turn. He has to prepare a new body to be veiled:...

After the death of two of her classmates, Julia is incapable of feeling any sort of sadness. Chocked by the suffocating mourning, and by a deep resentment, she will write something that will have dire...

Giorgio Priscoli, owner of a funeral home, launches a new service for the families of the departed: to enhance and embellish the memory left by loved ones after their...

When a man becomes a monster, his only choice is...

That's life in a village, this cloistered world that produces stories, boredom, friendships necessary, the author tells. During the day, he paints a portrait of the late Clement, his unspoilt room and the videos that remain of...

In the pond in Franciscu's garden there are still colourful fish swimming about, but there is one which nearly always stays at the bottom. She doesn't come up to the surface like she used to. Anyone who says that fish have no memory has obviously never met Juanita the...

A family finds the meaning of their existence through the constant contact with death. Santa Muerte is their mother, the light that shines in the dark dream of...