Life After

This movie chilled me to my core but it’s imperative you see it.

Life After, made with a personal fervor that never loses sight of reportorial specifics, outlines a horrific vision of merciless mercy killings in which disabled people would gain the right to die because society hardly recognizes their right to live.

“Life After” warrants praise for how it approaches its difficult subject matter with a kind of mercy and control that can easily be flung to the wayside when telling such a deeply personal story.

Adding his own personal perspective as a filmmaker living with disability, Davenport weaves an engrossing, moving and most importantly confrontational movie about the right to die and disability justice.

What begins as a slow prodding of assumptions ultimately ends up a full throated condemnation of systems that would rather have disabled people die than invest in the healthcare required to enhance their lives.

A sarcastic, cantankerous, and erudite narrator who often speaks directly to the camera and is visible at the far edge of the screen during a number of his interviews, Davenport makes no effort to establish himself as a neutral third party here.

“Life After” is not a cynical documentary. It is a manipulative one paved with good intentions and armed with historical knowledge that we are in the worst timeline. It is totally valid for anyone in this film to be apprehensive and suspect motives



One of the better documentaries hidden in the 2025 Sundance Film Festival line-up is this fascinating, contemplative new film called Life After from filmmaker Reid Davenport.

...a very well-founded, very well-structured cry with examples and lucid statements...a very lucid cry in favor of a dignified, robust public health that functions as it should. [Full review in Spanish]

Initially, Life After is a confusing documentary...really, though, it’s just that this film deals with a very complicated subject.