A powerful new short documentary commissioned by EGFR Positive Lung Cancer UK. Filmmaker Sarah Li meets the family of Alex, a young footballer who died from the same form of lung cancer she is living with today.
Give Us More Time to Breathe.
Our Lungs: Time to Breathe is part of a wider campaign using the power of film to challenge misconceptions around lung cancer. It raises awareness that it can affect anyone, including young, active people with no smoking history and encourages earlier diagnosis. Because when lung cancer is caught sooner, people have more treatment options, and time.
View the trailer below
Sarah’s Story
In April 2024, filmmaker Sarah Li was diagnosed with Stage 4 EGFR+ lung cancer. A month earlier, 24-year-old Alex died from the same mutation of the disease.
Sarah meets Alex's parents, Charlie and Angela, just months after his death. Hearing about his misdiagnosis - and the months lost because no one suspected lung cancer in someone young, fit, and with no smoking history - she recognises her own story in his.
Our Lungs: Time to Breathe follows Sarah as she processes survivor's guilt, connects with a wider community of patient advocates, and confronts what earlier diagnosis could have meant for Alex - and what it means for her own future.
Both of their stories challenge a dangerous assumption: that lung cancer only happens to smokers, or to older people. It can affect anyone.
Alex’s Story
Alex was 24, fit, and had never smoked. A footballer with his whole life ahead of him. When he became unwell, lung cancer wasn’t on anyone’s radar - it took time, and several misdiagnoses, before anyone considered it. He died just weeks after his diagnosis.
Charlie and Angela
Alex’s parents, Charlie and Angela, made a decision in the depths of their grief: to help fund a film about people like their son - young, active, with no smoking history - a profile still too rarely associated with lung cancer.
Host a screening
We want this film to be seen, shared and talked about.
Bring it to your organisation, event or community and help more people understand what it can be like to live with EGFR+ lung cancer. A screening can open up conversations, connect people through shared experiences and help raise awareness of a type of lung cancer many people still know very little about.
If you’d like to show the film, get in touch. We’d love to help you make it happen.
