1994, 44 minutes, Color With profound insight and a healthy dose of levity, the Academy Award-nominated COMPLAINTS OF A DUTIFUL DAUGHTER chronicles the various stages of a mother’s Alzheimer’s Disease and the evolution of a daughter’s response to the illness. The desire to cure the incurable-to set right her mother’s confusion and forgetfulness, to temper […]
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Complaints of a Dutiful Daughter -A film by Deborah Hoffmann
Homegoings – Christine Turner
the award winning film about Isaiah Owens, a funeral director in Harlem.
End Game – Rob Epstein and Jeffrey Friedman
2018 40 minute documentary film by Rob Epstein and Jeffrey Friedman about terminally ill patients in a San Francisco hospital meeting medical practitioners seeking to change the perception around life and death.
Departures – Yojiro Takita
This film from 2008 is about deathcare in rural Japan thru the eyes of a young man who returns to his home town and learns a “new” trade.
Instructions on Parting by Amy Jenkins
A beautiful intimate doc film about death within the life cycle of the family. website for the film
Being Mortal: Medicine and What Matters in the End
A Frontline Documentary by Atul Gwande M.D
Dying at Grace
a film by Allan King
