Families confront the power of goodbye and debate medical assistance in dying (MAID) in Sophie Deraspe’s The Final Act.
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Spoken word poet Andrea Gibson's cancer diagnosis fuels Ryan White's deeply moving and intimate Come See Me in the Good Light.
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André Is an Idiot, the story of André Ricciardi and his rude awakening after an overly delayed colonoscopy, is both tragic and hilarious.
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Undertaker for Life, now streaming from the National Film Board of Canada, is a humorous study of life, death, and what happens in between.
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Megan Durnford reflects on the process of making her short documentary Last Respects, which won Best Canadian short at Hot Docs 2023.
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Jackie the Wolf director Tuki Jencquel discusses his documentary portrait of his mother and her activism for choosing the date of her death.
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An interview with Undertaker for Life! director Georges Hannan about his NFB documentary that asks all the big questions on life and death.
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In Who We Will Have Been, Erec Brehmer explores the death of his girlfriend, Angelina Zeidler, by reflecting upon photos and videos.
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In Last Flight Home, Ondi Timoner offers a moving portrait of her family's journey navigating the end-of-life process with her father, Eli.
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An elderly woman stitches tangles of red yarn into tight little knots. While her muscle memory whirs away, her memory falters. The nurse beside her does not correct her, as is the
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