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2) Blackbird
Publisher
Screen Media
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Formats
Description
Lily and Paul summon their loved ones to their country house for one final gathering after Lily decides to end her life on her terms after a long battle with ALS. The couple is planning a loving weekend complete with holiday traditions, but the mood becomes strained when unresolved issues surface between Lily's daughters Jennifer and Anna. Joining the collective farewell is Lily's son in law, her lifelong friend, daughter's partner, and grandson.
4) Exit plan
Publisher
Screen Media Films
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
Danish
Description
Insurance agent Max, amid a crisis solving the difficult case of a married man's disappearance, uncovers the secretive Hotel Aurora. This hotel is an exclusive and remote luxury resort specializing in suicide. Max reveals a disturbing truth that causes him to question life, death, and his understanding of reality. It is a disturbing psychological wake-up call about the meaning of life in an intense power struggle over the right to one's own life and...
Publisher
Cohen Media Group
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
Français
Description
When André suffers a debilitating stroke and calls on his daughter Emmanuèle to help him die with dignity, she finds herself faced with a painful decision. Based on Emmanuèle Bernheim's memoir and an Official Selection of the Cannes Film Festival, the film's matter-of-factness elicits moments of humor that renders an otherwise weighty topic accessible. Steering clear of the moral arguments such issues often raise, the film instead focuses on the...
6) Lullaby
Pub. Date
2014
Language
English
Description
Jonathan, the black sheep of a well-to-do family, is finally coming home. His cancer-stricken father, Robert, has announced he's ending his life in less than 48 hours. At first confused, angry and remote, Jonathan eventually sees the barriers he has set up to cope with the imagined disappointment from his estranged family, including his fragile mother, and seemingly successful sister. A chance encounter with his old girlfriend, now engaged to another...