Flashy Funerals

Documentary depicting the funeral of Argentinian First Lady Eva Perón in 1952.

In Uganda, AIDS-infected mothers have begun writing what they call Memory Books for their children. Aware of the illness, it is a way for the family...

Thomas Haemmerli is about to celebrate his fortieth birthday when he learns of his mother's death. A further shock follows when he and his brother...

You only die once. A film about the life of a corpse.

Dying is a process and in a person's final hours and days, Nickie and her Threshold Choir are there to accompany people on their way and bring...

After they have graduated from school, the two best friends Kati and Jo jump into their purple Benz and embark on a journey around the world...

Horrifying certainty about the date of his death drives one man crazy.

A team of inept undertakers attempt to get a coffin to a funeral on time. An undertaker is in charge of moving a coffin from a home to the church....

On 28 January 1901 the great musician Giuseppe Verdi died from the consequences of a stroke that had struck him six days earlier. These very rare...

Searching for the root of generational trauma, the director takes a camera into his estranged grandfather’s funeral.

Filmmaker Jon Alpert turns the camera on his own family in this intimate portrait of his aging father. As illness and declining vitality reshape his...