Movies: Recovery

The rise to fame (and the near-fatal fall from it) of Patty Schemel, drummer for Courtney Love's seminal rock band, Hole. Given a Hi-8 video camera just before Hole's infamous Live Through This world tour, Patty captured stunningly intimate footage o...

An economist Basque (Gorka Ochoa) based in Barcelona becomes embroiled in a difficult emotional dilemma between his girlfriend (Bárbara Goenaga), who is pregnant, and a childhood friend (Sara Cozar), heart condition, which is declared by compassion c...

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The song "Fancy Like" was #1 in the US in 2021, taking off on TikTok and becoming the anthem of the year with an Applebee’s commercial. Walker and his daughter Lela (who choreographed the dance) explain how that song changed their lives. The document...

A documentary film that tracks the tennis star’s devastating injury journey between 2017-2019. From the front lines of surgical theatres, to the intimate corners of his home, we live alongside and witness Andy at his most vulnerable. Considered Brita...

When a high school tutor discovers a painful secret about her favorite client, she is quickly triggered by a similar darkness from her own past....

A laconic nurse gets sentenced to community service where she has to clean the filthy house of a wildly impulsive recluse....

This film points out the risks of being a heroin addict. Explains that addicts cannot be identified solely with one particular socio-economic level and cannot always be detected by appearance. Addicts and ex-addicts describe the first and subsequent ...

An orphan and product of her circumstances, Lynny tires of her edgy lifestyle and turns her life around...or does she?...

After the death of his brother and serving two years in prison, Joshua moves back in with his mom while under house arrest and is forced to address the addictions that brought him to this point through a 12 step program....

Unveiling the harsh reality of substance use in Thunder Bay, Ontario, this universally themed documentary, told through personal narratives and expert insights, exposes a lack of resources while aiming to shatter stigmas and ignite compassion for tho...

Recovering addicts meet every week in a local community center to share coffee, cookies, and stories of the ups and downs of their recovery process. When one newcomer, Paul, reluctantly attends the meeting and is forced to face his relationship to al...

On teams up with Emmy®-award-winning director Andrew Hinton to bring you The Man with the Halo. This inspirational short documentary tells the unfathomable comeback story of Tim Don, the fastest Ironman triathlete of all time, after breaking his neck...

A drug abusing alcoholic attempts to hide his addiction from those closest to him until he faces the hardest decision of his lifetime when tragedy strikes close to home....

In the documentary, we follow twin brothers Mike and Chuck Rollins, former addicts who now work in addiction recovery. They know firsthand the struggles and vulnerabilities of addiction, as well as the challenges of reintegrating after treatment. For...

After a concerning therapy session, Anna, a troubled teen with mental health problems opts to find something that makes her happy to support her in recovery....

UK cage fighter and mixed martial artist Rob ‘C4’ Sinclair, battles to overcome a career-threatening injury in order to fulfill his dream of fighting in the USA....

A portrait of the life of Prince Amponsah, a young actor who survived a near-fatal fire in 2012, and the journey of mental recovery that brought him back on stage....

In this farewell letter to Ana (aka Anorexia), I reveal the suffering associated with this illness. I express my desire to regain my freedom and vitality by sharing not only my progress but also my relapses. Through the interweaving of drawings and p...

The Great Chuetsu Earthquake which struck Niigata Prefecture on October 23, 2004 is permanently engraved in the memories of most Japanese people today. Hardest hit was the small mountain village of Yamakoshi, located right above the quake’s epicentre...