NFB Collection
Reflections on Suffering
198220 min 37 secFilm: Documentary
Direction: Malca Gillson
Production: Tom DalyBarrie Howells
In a moving conversation with Dr. Balfour M. Mount, friend, colleague and treating physician, cancer victim Jean Cameron, a one-time volunteer social worker in the Palliative Care Unit of Montréal's Royal Victoria hospital, discusses how she has come to terms with her own illness and the perspective it has given her on the meaning of life. What she has to say is relevant to all. The depth of her insight and the grace of her being leave viewers moved and open to thinking more carefully about the meaning of their own lives. Related films: Time for Caring, The Last Days of Living.
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Subject categories
- Health and Medicine > CancerCoping with Illness and Dying
- Religion, Beliefs and Ethics > Coping with AdversityLife and Death
- Women - Portraits > Health and Illness
- Psychology and Psychiatry > Life and Death
Credits
- director
- Malca Gillson
- editing
- Malca Gillson
- producer
- Tom Daly
- executive producer
- Barrie Howells
- photography
- Susan Trow
- sound
- Richard Nichol