This is a virtual companion screening to the in-person screening hosted by the Philadelphia Film Society and cinéSPEAK on July 24th.

Winner, U.S. Documentary Special Jury Award, 2025 Sundance Film Festival.

Disabled filmmaker Reid Davenport trenchantly probes the legacy of Elizabeth Bouvia – a disabled California woman who, at the age of 26, sought “the right to die.” Her 1983 case provoked a national debate about the value of disabled lives, and Davenport sees echoes in chilling contemporary cases of disabled people dying prematurely -- at their own hands and by a broken health care system. Through moving interviews and rich archival material, LIFE AFTER looks critically at where progressive values of bodily autonomy collide with the fear and devaluing of disabled lives.

“Surprising, insightful, moving, and politically far-reaching… Made with a personal fervor that never loses sight of reportorial specifics."
– Richard Brody, The New Yorker

“An engrossing, moving and, most importantly, confrontational movie about the right to die and disability justice.”
– Murtada Elfadl, Variety

“[A] keen, structural analysis of our presumptions about what a good life looks like— and who can have it.”
– Devika Girish, Film Comment

Closed captions and audio description are available.

A Pay-It-Forward fund is available, so that those who can't afford the ticket fee can access the film for free, and so those who can afford the rental fee can consider making a donation to replenish the fund.