Movies: Dying and death

In 2017 Bill Drummond and Jimmy Cauty, formerly The KLF, returned after 23 years of silence with a new project. They were no longer a pop group but undertakers, building the People's Pyramid out of bricks made from the ashes of dead people....

Irish director Donagh Coleman explores the extraordinary phenomenon of Tukdam, whereby some Tibetan Buddhist practitioners are able to forestall physical decay at the point of clinical death for days, even weeks, by entering a deep meditative state....

In 1974, a soldier, having now returned home, is haunted by shadows from the past, but are they just in his mind?...

Switzerland is the only country in the world that allows foreigners to come and die on its territory. Since its founding in 1998, more than a thousand people have traveled to Zurich to end their lives with the help of the organization Dignitas. "Dign...

Bill Moyers and filmmaker David Grubin give viewers a rare glimpse into dancer/choreographer Bill T. Jones’s highly acclaimed dance Still/Here. At workshops around the country, people facing life-threatening illnesses are asked to remember the highs ...

How do you learn to talk about death when you are a future doctor? Mathilde and Fabian will be entering a residency next year. I'm looking at the gestural dialogue and language strategies that take place during the delicate moment of a "announcement"...

Opera written by inmates of a Nazi concentration camp in 1943 before their murder in Auschwitz....

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A man seeks help in planning his funeral from a surprisingly experienced consultant....

A son, recently discovering he has passed away, must bargain with an angel to ensure his father’s admittance to Heaven - not Hell....

Twenty years after a beloved local fisherman, Richie Madeiras, goes missing off the shores of Martha's Vineyard, a distant cousin locates Richie's kind, indelible spirit in the stories of family, friends, and the sweeping sea which has defined their ...

Life is a breath, a breath that while it is with us, always blows us around, allows us to do everything we do, live what we live....

A man looks back on his life at what was and what could have been....

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

A lighthouse keeper prepares his earthly funeral while trying to reconnect with his inner elf. Hulda and Trausti have shared a roof on the Icelandic coast for over seventy years. Her love of books is matched by his love of stones. When he tells her h...

An intimate portrait of New York artist Michael Anderson during the last year of his life. The film is structured by way of Roberto Bolaño's novel 2666....

A woman wakes up next to her dead husband. She refuses the fact that he is dead and pretends to her family that he's still alive....

In fremder Erde (In Foreign Soil) documents the Muslim traditions of burial in Turkey and Germany, but above all, the paths the dead take to return to Anatolian soil....

Maria recounted the chronology of her father's death many times to the visiting guests....

An aspiring painter struggles to find passion for his art after the death of his mother....