Disease Movies

Arjun Mallik is a popular RJ who is not only famous but well-loved. His listeners connect with him personally and his voice is music to their ears....

The sea around Minamata was heavily polluted with mercury during the 1950s and 1960s from the Chisso Corporation's chemical factory. This highly...

Maurizio is a young university student living in Zürich, with a passion for diseases. Unlike many others, he can see an inherent beauty in them....

Cédric is a child like millions of others. The only difference is that the little boy is seriously ill and must spend six months in a...

A bereaved epileptic ditches her pills and follows a mysterious woman to the outskirts of her town, where she slips back into the fearsome yet...

Arthur, a young boy with a wild imagination, develops a preoccupation with death and disease and begins to explore mortality in the vivid images he...

Manuel is stuck in a monotonous job, has only one friend that he cannot stand, and his family despises him. Everything will change when the doctor...

A journalist afflicted with the underresearched debilitating condition known as Chronic Fatigue Syndrome embarks on a quest to find out why the CDC...

A teen is locked in a room with a monitor lizard

Laura has already accepted an engagement ring from Edgar when he discovers that he has tuberculosis. Persuaded by the doctor that he risks infecting...

The portrait of a daughter and her father, who was put into an artificial coma for a long time, between dreams and vague visions, and now returns...

A mother discovers that her son has a disability that causes her breast milk to intoxicate him. But the discovery comes too late to prevent the loss...

This project was born when I discovered a letter that my mom had written to a friend before her death. The attention she felt there, its simple and...

A 1-minute cart ride through the mental shopping mall of attention deficit disorder. Inspired by found sound of a shopper’s vlog, hand-drawn...

The fifties, a Soviet space shuttle crashes in West Germany. The only passenger, a cosmonaut chimpanzee, spreads a deadly virus all over the country.

The black death had devastating effects in centuries past, but what actually caused it and how many lives did it take? The world has not seen a...

Christian has one year left to live, one year to get to know his newborn son Philip, and on year to make sure Philip will have a chance to get to...

A fragile mother has a hard time keeping her life together while raising her teenage daughter and 13-year-old sun who is diagnosed with XP, a rare...

The story features a young girl whose grandfather dies from Ebola and puts the rest of her family at risk. The film makes visible the invisible Ebola...

DIS-EASE is a feature-length documentary about how we imagine disease, and how that affects what we do when we encounter illness, outbreaks, doctors,...