Dying Movies

Portrait of the last year of the life of famous New York drag queen Consuela Cosmetic.

The owner of a fetish club finds out that, along with dealing with his wife who wants to leave him, his dying father, and the city wanting to close hi...

At Baycrest, an old-age home in Toronto, we follow a social worker as she talks to residents, particularly Max, Claire, Ida, and Rachel. The film open...

This animated short film attempts to answer the eternal questions, What is dying? and How does it feel? Based on recent studies, case histories and so...

A lonesome man at the threshold of death finds himself trapped in a place called the Endless.

Minutes before his death in the general ward of a city hospital, Ulises, a terminal patient in his fifties, reconstructs the fragments of his life. La...

Filmmaker Diego Gutiérrez knows that he is soon to lose two loved ones: his mother Gina Coppe and his best friend Danniel Danniel. Both ask him to fil...

An unassuming middle-aged accountant learns he has only weeks to live. Rather than tell everyone, Martin determines to learn the three pages of a Bach...

This is Jon Alpert's portrait of his father's struggles with growing old and nearing the end of life.

As is tradition, brothers Arian and Navid meet up one late night to cook a special meal together, but this time their meeting is going to revolve arou...

A dying woman wishes to see her family through the good times and the bad times she will miss.

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 Wat...

Clay-on-glass under-the-camera animated interpretation of Emily Dickinson's poem by animator Lynn Tomlinson.

Memento Mori is a morbidly beautiful journey into the world of alternative post mortem arrangements and an illuminating meditation on death, dying and...

A SHOT IN THE FOOT depects hectic nocturnal routines of a young woman who works as an assassin. She is a quick and innovative killer, efficient at her...

A young finger puppet retrieves a lost letter written by her deceased brother while her parents struggle to cope with their grief.

Todd, an artistic, sensitive teenager, finds himself at odds with his controlling family as they struggle to care for his dying grandmother. Originall...