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Wretches and Jabberers directed by Gerardine Wurzburg, with Tracy Thresher and Larry Bissonnette
Why? Simply: watch it and you'll see empathy in a real life. You'll see how to make somebody happy and live more fully. You'll see how thinking about somebody else will make you happy/happier ... It's about "think and be happy".
Set in a hospital, this four-minute clip brings us into the lives of patients, their families and healthcare workers. It shows a short description hovering near each person, saying what he or she is feeling or going through. In this way, it makes the invisible, visible.
This is a sharing by a doctor in Singapore who went through a transformation after he was diagnosed with cancer. He shares with such honesty, the material life he lived and how, after cancer, he became more compassionate.
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Moving, vibrant and shot through with the kind of energy that isn’t quite like anything else, City of God is not only a gripping, indecently entertaining thriller and a coming-of-age story but an intimate look at life in a Brazilian favela where children both reign over their world and are crushe
What Maisie Knew is a film directed by Scott McGehee and David Siegel. It's a beautiful adaptation of the Henry James novel of the same title, written in 1897, about Maisie the daughter of a divorced couple and irresponsible parents.
The film, the short documentary Facing Fear, was nominated for an Academy Award in 2014. It tells the story of Matthew Boger, who was thrown out of his home as a teenager for being gay.