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.

Wendell Cooke (dir.), Jeremy Macey (dir.)

A three-minute documentary film about Gina, a New Zealand woman living with a rare genetic condition that affects her ears, eyes and larynx. Gina’s case has been mentioned in the New Zealand and Queensland parliaments and the film gained over 100,000 views in the years before assisted dying was legalised in Aotearoa/New Zealand.

Matt Day (dir.)

In this short film, three adult siblings come together for their mother’s planned assisted death only to discover that she has changed her mind. A blackly comic look at the coercion that could emerge in assisted dying situations, made as Australia was beginning the legalisation process.