Dying at Grace (2003)

Directed by

Allan King

Genre

documentary film

Country

Canada

Runtime

2h 28m

Rating

7.9 of 10 from 8 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

The film follows several patients in a Toronto palliative care unit as they talk about facing their own deaths. It shows their honest thoughts and feelings in their final days.

intimatecontemplativequietsadrespectfulunhurriedmovingsober

What happens

Dying at Grace is a Canadian documentary film, directed by Allan King and released in 2003. The film profiles a group of patients in palliative care at Toronto Grace Health Centre in Toronto, Ontario, exploring their thoughts and feelings on their imminent deaths. The film premiered at the 2003 Toronto International Film Festival, then played at The Museum of Modern Art in New York, Berlinale, Leipzig, Sydney, Singapore, Taipei, Prague, Phoenix, Vancouver, and Montreal film festivals. It was broadcast on television by TVOntario in February 2004. The film was named to TIFF's annual year-end Canada's Top Ten list for 2003, and won the Donald Brittain Award for best television documentary on a social or political topic and best documentary film editing at the 19th Gemini Awards in 2004. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

More like this

• Pieces of a Dream: A Story of Gambling (2003)
• Memory for Max, Claire, Ida and Company (2005)
• Being Human (2005)
• House Calls (2006)
• 20h17 rue Darling (2003)
• The Heart That Beats (2011)
• Le Petit Jésus (2004)
• Who Loves the Sun (2024)