With MY POSITIVE LIFE, Mark Strombach and Salwa Amin give a voice and face to people who have been living with HIV/AIDS for decades, in the first ever film on the subject. Six men and one woman aged between 60 and 72 each tell their own stories: underlying them is the common tale of a long life with the HI-virus. In a thoughtful, astute, sometimes bawdy and amusing manner, the protagonists recall the early days of HIV/AIDS in the 1980s, their fears, and the countless changes in their lives, professions, and financial situations.

Aging frightens us. But beyond appearances, does old age merely represent the end of life? Can aging be seen as a new departure? While our bodies become weaker, growing old can bring a greater sensitivity and awaken new sensations. Revealed in simple moments, aging highlights the fragility of physical existence, but also the intensity of the present moment. All over eighty, the characters strive to adapt to their physical limitations and to accept their changing desires and expectations.

Man has always dreamed about living for as long as possible and, if he must grow old, that he might do so as late and as painlessly as possible. "Not decrepit nor senile!" seems to be the challenge for generations like ours whose life expectancy just keeps on getting longer. So what exactly are the current discoveries and theories that might one day allow us to alter the complex process of ageing, to slow down its effects and perhaps even to help us live longer?

Why do we die? Immortality was not planned by Nature. It is neither useful to reproduction nor to the perennity of species, but it may not be impossible. With the new fields of research on the living - genomics, nanomedicine, neuroscience - and the exponential technological progress, the vertiginous question of an immortal man is at stake.