The film premiered in September 2024 at the Toronto International Film Festival, where it won the Platform Award. \u201cPolvo ser\u00e1n\u201d was released in Spanish cinemas in November 2024.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
In an interview with DIGNITAS, film director Carlos Marques-Marcet provides fascinating insights into the making of the film and his personal and artistic exploration of self-determined dying.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Read the interview<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n A friendship walks the distance between life and death in Nilesh Maniyar and Shonali Bose’s \u201cA Fly on the Wall<\/a>\u201d. As Shonali is tasked with filming her friend Chika Kapadia’s physician assisted suicide, Nilesh Maniyar asks Shonali to turn the camera towards herself too. Together, Shonali, Nilesh and Film Editor Tushar Ghogale weave a tale of dignity in death through the lens of friendship. Ironically, the locale is beautiful Switzerland – the backdrop of many a blockbuster Indian film.<\/p>\n\n\n\n The film premiered at the Busan Film Festival 2024. \u201cThe death of Chika Kapadia \u2013 a friend’s perspective<\/a>\u201d<\/a>, A two-season documentary series telling the stories of terminally ill people who want the right to choose medical aid in dying (MAID) in the USA.<\/p>\n\n\n\n The conversations about the end of life are hard and often just a whisper. In her seminal two-season docu series \u201cTake Me Out Feet First\u201d, Filmmaker Serene Meshel-Dillman invites viewers into the decision-making process that terminally patients make about their end-of-life choices. The first Episode chronicles her own parents\u2019 paths to embracing their own right to exit on their own terms and timeline.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Link to the website of the documentary series<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n Music & video and vocals & instruments by Michael Blake Link to the music video on Youtube<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n This film tells the stories of people who want the right to die at a time of their choosing. Link to the website of Truevision<\/a> This documentary film looks at what it means to die on one\u2019s own terms. Using first-hand accounts from people across Canada, this film will offer perspectives on medical assistance in dying (MAID) less commonly seen in media reports and present an opportunity to educate people on end-of-life choice in Canada.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Link to the film website<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n As Paralympic champion Marieke Vervoort\u2019s health deteriorates, she determines to end her suffering and life by assisted dying with the help of her doctors. Liberated by the Netherland\u2019s legal choice to end life self-determinedly, Marieke rediscovers the freedom and thrill of living and competing. Her acceptance of death becomes an affirmation of life.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Link to the trailer<\/a> Dignity delves into the intersection of death, grief, guilt, and self-determination, presenting a mother and daughter abruptly forced across the precipice of loss, who confront their most difficult emotions \u2014 and each other \u2014 as they attempt to find a way forward after the passing of a loved one.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Illuminating the complex topic of medically assisted suicide within an isolated bubble in time, Dignity places the audience as a voyeur to intensely raw conversations. Where the presence of loss is felt like a ghost in the room, the film insists on bringing the viewer closer until they too must reconcile the conflicting perspectives within themselves, even ones they would rather not face.<\/p>\n\n\n\n A Capilano University Student Film, School of Motion Pictures Arts, Vancouver, Canada<\/p>\n\n\n\n Link to Youtube<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n This short movie by David Gonz\u00e0lez shows the moments that a wife, a son and a daughter had to wonder the streets in total sadness while the husband\/father was taking a lethal dose to end his suffering self-determinedly. He had to do so in total solitude. They had to leave him alone in his apartment and be physically far, so they wouldn\u2019t be in trouble with the law. (Link<\/a>)<\/p>\n\n\n\n The movie bases on the true story of Jos\u00e9 Antonio<\/p>\n\n\n\n Link to Youtube<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n In this TEDx talk, Professor of palliative care Gian Domenico Borasio reflects on the fact that we will die is the only certainty that we have in life; looking back on their lives, dying patients share their insights with us and thus teach us how to live. All we need to do is to listen.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Link to the video portal Youtube<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n What would you do if you suffered from a debilitating illness that left you in constant and severe pain? What would you do if the only way you could find relief was to take heavy duty pain killers that also impacted heavily on your physical health? After 36 years struggling with that situation, Jay says he’s had enough and he wants to end his own life. Because assisted suicide and voluntary euthanasia are not permitted in his home country Australia he is forced to apply to an organisation in a foreign country to fulfil his wish.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Link to the Website of ABC – Four Corners<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n This film tells part of the story of the last few weeks of John Close’s life with MND – Motor Neurone Disease. It shows some of John’s daily activities, the routine John went through every morning to try to alleviate his terrible constipation, etc. The film also shows his journey to DIGNITAS – To live with dignity – To die with dignity where he died on on 26 May 2003.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Link to the video portal Youtube<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n Visit the website which records and celebrates John\u2019s life and his music (Link<\/a>)<\/p>\n\n\n\n This film follows several terminally-ill Oregon residents who make use of Oregon\u2019s \u2018Death with Dignity Act\u2019, that state\u2019s aid-in-dying law, and includes scenes from the 2008 campaign to establish a similar law in Washington State which successfully lead to the Washington Death with Dignity Act passed on November 4, 2008.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Link to the website of the film<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n Debate in Warsaw, Poland, 12 May 2015: “Eutanazja Powinna Zosta\u0107 Zalegalizowana” with Prof. Tadeusz Barto\u015b, Maria Czubaszek, Dr. Kamil Sipowicz, Prof. Bogdan Chazan, John Godson and \u0141ukasz P. Skurczy\u0144ski. Moderator: Grzegorz Nawrocki. Presented by the Oxbridge Society of Poland<\/p>\n\n\n\n Link to the video of the debate<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n In this debate on 16 January 2014, the Union asks whether legalising assisted dying is moral, and whether sanctity or quality of life should be prioritised. The speakers in favour of freedom of choice in \u201clast matters\u201d win the debate by a clear 207 to 67 votes (with 54 abstaining). When will UK politicians listen?<\/p>\n\n\n\n Link to the video portal Youtube<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n British author Sir Terry Pratchett’s emotional documentary on the right to take his own life<\/p>\n\n\n\n Link to the video portal of Top Documentary Films<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n Oscar-winning Director John Zaritsky\u2019s empathetic documentary on the right to choose time and place of ones own end of life<\/p>\n\n\n\n Links to the video portal YouTube: Documentary by TSR, Swiss (French part) TV, on DIGNITAS and the journey of French author Mich\u00e8le Causse to her accompanied suicide (original French tone)<\/p>\n\n\n\n Link to the video portal of TSR<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n The documentary received an international award (category documentary), the \u201cPrix du documentaire\u201d at the European Festival of Journalism in Lille, France.<\/p>\n\n\n\n A website created by our colleagues of the Dutch organisation NVVE – Nederlandse Vereniging voor een Vrijwillig Levenseinde, comprising a large collection of documentaries and films<\/a> from all over the world. <\/p>\n\n\n\n Documentary by Current TV and Edoardo Anselmi; with Mina und Piergiorgio Welby, Emilio Coveri of the Italian Right-to-Die Association EXIT-Italia, Robert Dawson, Ludwig A. Minelli of DIGNITAS, and many more (original Italian tone)<\/p>\n\n\n\n Link to the video portal of sky.it<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n Movie inspired by the life and death of Dr. Anne Turner, produced by the BBC<\/p>\n\n\n\n Links to the video portal YouTube: Simon Critchley, Professor of Philosophy at The New School, New York, on the question whether suicide is a right.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\n\n\n\nA Fly on the Wall<\/h4>\n\n\n\n
Link to the official trailer<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n
article by Shonali Bose for the DIGNITAS November 2024 newsletter<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\n\n\n\nTake Me Out Feet First<\/h4>\n\n\n\n
\n\n\n\n\u201cDignitas\u201d<\/h4>\n\n\n\n
from his album \u201cOut of the blue\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\n\n\n\nA Time to Die<\/h4>\n\n\n\n
And why some say that\u2019s an option they must not have.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Link to Youtube<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n
\n\n\n\nIn My Own Time<\/h4>\n\n\n\n
\n\n\n\nAddicted to Life<\/h4>\n\n\n\n
Film website<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n
\n\n\n\nDIGNITY<\/h4>\n\n\n\n
\n\n\n\nLa Dignitat<\/h4>\n\n\n\n
\n\n\n\nIt’s not about dying<\/h4>\n\n\n\n
\n\n\n\nMy Own Choice<\/h4>\n\n\n\n
\n\n\n\nOne Day At A Time With MND<\/h4>\n\n\n\n
\n\n\n\nHow to Die in Oregon<\/h4>\n\n\n\n
\n\n\n\nPoland: “Eutanazja Powinna Zosta\u0107 Zalegalizowana”<\/h4>\n\n\n\n
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\n\n\n\nThe Cambridge Union Society \u2013 This House Would Legalise \u2018Assisted Dying\u2019<\/h4>\n\n\n\n
\n\n\n\nChoosing To Die<\/h4>\n\n\n\n
\n\n\n\nRight do Die? \/ The Suicide Tourist<\/h4>\n\n\n\n
Link to the documentary shorted TV-version<\/a>
Interview with John Zaritsky and excerpts from the documentary<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n
\n\n\n\nDignitas \u2013 la mort sur ordonnance<\/h4>\n\n\n\n
\n\n\n\nThis is the End \u2013 Documentaries & Films<\/h4>\n\n\n\n
\n\n\n\nSuicidio Assistito<\/h4>\n\n\n\n
\n\n\n\nA short stay in Switzerland<\/h4>\n\n\n\n
part 1<\/a> | part 2<\/a> | part 3<\/a> | part 4<\/a> | part 5<\/a> | part 6<\/a> | part 7<\/a> | part 8<\/a> | part 9<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n
\n\n\n\nIs Suicide a Right? – Simon Critchley<\/h4>\n\n\n\n