Movies: Mental health

"Video by Bill Etra, early to mid 1970s, perhaps at the WNET TV Lab?"...

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After a chaotic episode with his wife, Russian-Estonian worker Nikolai is left alone with their one year old daughter, Sophia. As time goes by, he begins to doubt his abilities as a father and furthermore, if he will ever see his wife again....

In this short we’re reminded of the universal importance of mental health and how reconnection to ancestral knowledge and ways of being serve as a means of maintaining and cultivating wellness....

Viewers take a journey down Patnasiri's memory lane filled with vulnerability and openness alongside her critical view on the perception of mental health in Asia....

A young man carrying the make-up of his past tries his hand at a new skill, enriching his present and starting him on a journey towards a better future....

With Noémi Mercier, we explore the blind spots of high-level sport. Performance anxiety, eating disorders, psychological violence and depression are omnipresent among our elite athletes. What is behind dreams of medals and trophies? How can we ensure...

At the age of 13, Robin drops out of school. His grades are inadequate, even at a special school, and to make matters worse, his health continues to deteriorate. That was over 20 years ago. Today he runs his own hair salon....

Marwan a superstitious OCD patient knows that his grades will be out in an hour and tries to fight his obsessive thoughts....

James Roddie is a caver, climber and a professional photographer. He’s also a 30-year-old man with an eating disorder. After the death of his father, James deals with it the best way he knows how – heading underground with his camera. Delving into hi...

Obscure is a short film that addresses, through a personal narrative, the director's first contact with depression and anxiety....

Unfortunately, every year eight million people die quietly due to Mental Illness. It's urgent to decrease this number. It's urgent to help. It's urgent to listen, to observe and to speak up. It's urgent to break this taboo....

Through the encounter between a director and a scarred young woman, Miette explores how guilt shapes our personal narrative and relationships....

Thoughts, sometimes just numbers, reach us from offscreen almost like music, like a mantra or a prayer. What we see are circular fragments from familiar spaces: a mirror, a magnifying glass. A day like any other day: without medication, or perhaps be...

First Responders sign up to serve; they risk their lives and their mental health to respond to someone’s worst day. Who will rescue them? PTSD911 is a documentary film about real people: normal, average human beings who have chosen to work in profess...

Damon Smith has estimated that he has spent around 50,000 hours of his life, so far, participating in absurd ritualistic behaviours associated with his obsessive compulsive disorder (OCD). With a diagnosis of both, OCD and Bipolar Disorder, and with...

A young man becomes obsessed with his new neighbour....

What happens to a relationship if a partner suddenly becomes severely disabled after an accident? For Gosia it is clear that she will stand by her boyfriend Tomek no matter what in order to let him live as normal and fulfilled a live as possible. But...

A hopeless baker's attempt at taking his own life is interrupted by a persistent child in need of a birthday cake....

A person who believes they're being watched all day, every day, struggles with their mental health and their grip on reality....