Liz, just returned home after a mental breakdown, has to welcome a relative stranger into her home when Caitlin, a young, vivacious woman, claims to be her husband's daughter.

Ode to Joy kertoo Charlie-nimisestä miehestä, jonka elämää on muokannut katapleksia, minkä seurauksena hän ei voi koskaan pitää hauskaa. Lähestyessään neljänkympin ikää hän on oppinut olemaan pysyvästi onneton innostumatta mistään. Hän on töissä kirjastossa, kuuntelee työmatkoilla hautajaismarsseja ja tukahduttaa romanttiset tunteet, varsinkin ilon. Tämä elämäntyyli joutuu koetukselle, kun hän tapaa eloisan ja harvinaisen mutkikkaan Francescan ja alkaa rakastua.

India. Smita is an untouchable. She dreams of seeing her daughter escape her miserable condition and enter school. Italy. Giulia works in her father’s workshop. When he has an accident, she discovers that the family business is ruined. Canada. Sarah, a successful lawyer, is about to be promoted to the head of her firm when she learns that she is ill. Three lives, three women, three continents. Three battles to fight. Although they don’t know each other, Smita, Giulia and Sarah are unknowingly linked by their most intimate and singular bond.

Ida , tanskainen kampaajatar, on juuri käynyt läpi rankat syöpähoidot ja palaa eräänä päivänä kemoterapiasta odotettua aikaisemmin kotiin ja saa oven avatessaan aviomiehensä kiinni rysän päältä sihteerin kanssa vehtaamisesta. Ida lähtee kuohuvin tuntein matkalle italiaan tyttärensä häihin. Jo lentokentän parkkialueella hän sananmukaisesti törmää tyttärensä tulevaan appiukkoon Philipiin, englantilaiseen liikemieheen. Matkasta hääjuhlaan muotoutuu alkusoitto koko Idan loppuelämälle. Bier kuvaa palavaa rakkautta, kipeää menetystä ja surua hurmaavalla otteella ja ronskilla huumorilla. LOVE IS ALL YOU NEED on elokuva elämän yllättävyydestä: juuri kun luulet elämän jo olevan ohi, voi olla että se vasta alkaa!

Koomikko Tig Notaro julkisti syöpädiagnoosinsa yhdellä legendaarisimmista stand-up -keikoista vuonna 2012. Hän etsii ja löytää huumoria kriisin keskellä.

Palkitun Julio Medemin ohjaamassa draamassa Magdaa kohtaa peruuttamaton tragedia. Masennuksen sijaan hän seuraa sisäistä ääntään ja kohtaa elämän raadollisuuden huumorin ja ilon voimalla.

The story of Singe and Kate, a couple from North Somerset, whose lives were turned upside down when Kate was diagnosed with an incurable breast cancer. Over her last few days, she created her list: writing her thoughts and memories down, to help the man she loved create the best life possible for their two sons, after she was gone.

Tohtori Dennis Slamon oli mukana kehittämässä uutta kokeellista Herceptin -lääkettä ja toivoi sen olevan käänteentekevä hoito taistelussa rintasyöpää vastaan. Slamonin projektin rahoitus kuitenkin lopetetaan, mutta hyväntekijät Lilly Tartikoff ja Ron Perelman tulevat apuun ja muuttavat hänen elämänsä tärkeimmän työn todellisuudeksi. Uusien tukijoidensa avulla Slamon jatkaa hoitonsa kehittämistä, mutta hänen uusi lääkkeensä osoittaa, että vaikka sillä on kyky pelastaa henkiä, lääke ei toimi kaikkien kohdalla. Tämä mieltä liikuttava tositarina esittää yhden lääkärin vaikeata ponnistelua löytää syöpähoito, joka voi pelastaa tuhansien hengen ja samalla antaa merkitystä hänen omalle elämälleen.

Fumiko, mother of two children and wife of an unfaithful man, shares her family life with her budding vocation as a poet. The beginning of her successful literary career coincides with her divorce and her breast cancer diagnosis. In the last stage of her life, she meets a young journalist from Tokyo who wants to write a story on her life.

We call them by a hundred different names: boobs, knockers, jugs, hooters. We wonder if they're real or fake, too small or too big, too exposed or too covered. And every year Americans spend millions of dollars on breast enhancement, from push-up bras to surgery. Why is our culture so captivated by this particular part of the female form? "Boobs: An American Obsession" is a revealing, humorous, often poignant investigation involving everyone from anthropologists to porn stars as we explore our culture's fascination with breasts.

In New South Wales, Jared surfs with his mates and has a first girl. He hosts a beach party for his older pal, Ricko, and witnesses four of his mates gang-rape a 15 year old. He does nothing, and the next day, she's found murdered. At school, the boys and the girls react: the girls with anger at the perpetrators, the boys with jeering at the dead girl's morality. The students' parents have their own responses. Jared retreats into angry silence, disgusted that he did nothing to help the dead girl. Meanwhile, his mother wants to talk to him about her impending cancer surgery, the police want to know what he saw, and his friend Ricko wants an alibi. Jared's cracking under the pressure.

A green-screen reliant remake of Tommy Wiseau's 2003 cult film.

Shortly after its release, the book was optioned by Working Title Films in conjunction with Cate Blanchett. In March 2013, it was announced that HBO Films is set to produce a film adaptation of the book starring Blanchett. HBO Films is closing a deal with Julie Delpy to adapt the Marisa Acocella Marchetto memoir Cancer Vixen: A True Story as a star vehicle for Cate Blanchett. Blanchett is an executive producer on the project alongside Maven Pictures partners Trudie Styler and Celine Rattray. (Aug 2013)

Forty-something Cecilia better known as Sissy to her friends is a cheery and vivacious seamstress. Wai Mun, her husband of many years is the captain of an acclaimed Chinese restaurant. Although somewhat discontented with life since his migration from Hong Kong to Singapore, he and Sissy are a loving couple and enjoy a blissful marriage. They have a 15-year-old son and a nine-year-old daughter who has a very close relationship with Sissy and is a source of great cheer and comfort to her. In a twist of fate, an unexpected occurrence befalls their seemingly mediocre and uneventful lives. One day as Sissy feels a hard lump in her left breast. A gush of complex emotions overwhelms her.

Investigates the controversy swirling around the breast cancer screening test mammography.

Meredith Baxter plays Joyce Wadler in this heartwarming story of hope, courage and redemption inspired by the New York City journalist's real-life struggle with breast cancer. Stuck in a lackluster relationship with her boyfriend, she's forced to re-examine her life when she receives the troubling diagnosis.

A young woman tries to keep a positive attitude while battling breast cancer.

When Molly, the 21 year-old sister of Maarten, departs the family home, she leaves her older brother with empty nest syndrome. But it also opens up new opportunities for him, such as the possibility to explore his love for Arthur, a closet gay. Molly and Maarten wrestle with their personal relationships and also their relationship with one another, but fate nevertheless seems determined to strike them both down.