'Deséenme un buen viaje' by Gina Montaner
Gina Montaner
About to turn 79 and suffering from what seemed to be Parkinson’s, the Cuban-Spanish writer Carlos Alberto Montaner asked his daughter to help him seek an assisted death. In this memoir, Gina Montaner recounts how her father, as a political exile, fought for democratization in Cuba and, as a naturalized citizen, for the right to access legal euthanasia in Spain.
'Exit' by Benjamin Kempf
Benjamin Kempf (director) and Jann Preuss (writer)
Erika who suffers from cancer and her healthy husband Ruedi wish to die together by assisted suicide. When the lethal drug is ready, Ruedi is overcome with doubt, and the two argue. Ruedi ultimately drinks the deadly substance as well and lies down in bed with his wife. This short film, the first to explore double suicide in organised assisted suicide in Switzerland, is highly ambivalent.