Movies: Mental health

At 88 years old, Ofelia reflects on her life under the attentive gaze of her grandchildren. Family, love, disputes, adventures, and tragedies. A story brimming with characters that, as a result of the passing of time, leaves Ofelia as the sole witnes...

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A young woman struggles with living a life wherein her identity is still tied to the abuse she experienced as a child. One night, she falls victim to an episode triggered by her PTSD and is forced to confront her struggles through two strange but poi...

A young man sits at a local restaurant with his friend: but he isn't paying attention to her as she speaks. This film visualizes his chaotic state of mind and how he uses mindfulness practice to tune back into the conversation. Mindfulness is being a...

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...

Lolo, a 23-year-old boy, is devastated when his girlfriend Clara leaves him. Impsed in sadness, he takes refuge in writing, facing his deepest fears and emotions. An unexpected turn in the end will lead us to discover who Lolo really is....

A three part meditation....

A movie musical about eating disorder recovery and overcoming perceptions of perfection. It follows the first couple of weeks of college for Gracie, a young woman who has (mostly) recovered from an eating disorder. As she attempts to forge a new iden...

Living in a village full of slopes can drive you mad. Those who have climbed them in the old-fashioned way are fully aware of that. What they don’t know is that their souls might have stuck around....

This 3-minute short film by Iain Delavan was created at a dark time in his life. In his usual abstract and expressive style, Delavan depicts an unsettling scene of a character committing self-harm, set against the backdrop of an interpolation of Lizz...

It's been a year since Killarna tried to take her own life, today is her 18th birthday, and things are slowly starting to feel ok again, but not all is as it seems....

A lonely day in the life of someone who feels like simply an extension of the spaces they inhabit. They are hit with the dreadful isolation that exists as a result....

Civil discourse is vanishing from modern society. Improv comedians heal the divide in this documentary feature film starring Colin Mochrie (Whose Line is it, Anyway?) that explores the use of improvisation for conflict resolution. Republican Karl Rov...

When depersonalisation and derealisation detach them from reality, a young Thai art graduate and an anonymous Frenchman recount their experiences of feeling alienated and unsure of their existence....

After several suicide attempts and psychiatric hospitalizations, 15 year old Belle takes exception to a streaming internet series depicting 13 reasons why a fictional teen commits suicide. Belle disrupts society’s mistaken beliefs about individuals w...

Sadegh, now separated from his wife, believes that nobody understands his word or his feelings. He suddenly sees himself, society, and his surroundings in a new way. To deal with this, he brings a chicken home to have dialogue with and create a relat...

A young man places his last hope in a strange surgeon. Plunged into the depths of his soul, he meets his inner doctor....

Documented through the lens of his best friend’s DV camera, a skater grapples with life and mental health in the interior and exterior....

A tormented man abducts a woman to force his dream of love, sparking a fiery clash that bares their souls and wounded hearts, forging a searing bond in this 27-minute 4K short....