Movies: Mental illness

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A depressed man spirals as he struggles to open up about his mental health. James, a mid-20s modern day man, has battled with anxiety and depression for an unknown amount of time. It’s unclear what caused is and the solution is even more ambiguous. ...

A short film on the obsessive nature of love. How far can we take our attachment and devotion to our loved ones?...

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Creeping from the halls of the maze brain, corruption and terror is woven by devils born from the denied errors of mankind....

'When' discusses the filmmaker's experience with mental illness and how it has impacted her perception of the world around her. It mainly focuses on Anorexia Nervosa, Anxiety, and Depression. It aims to represent these ideas in an abstract but honest...

A man struggles with guilt and his own perception of reality as he goes about his normal daily life....

A woman tormented by her depression and the monster in the mirror seeks refuge and finds a rare moment of honesty with herself....

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Schizophrenia. It may be one word, but it immediately conjures up multiple connotations. Mad. Incurable. Violent. Suicidal. Chemical imbalances. Crazy. A lifelong condition. Inevitable dependency on Medicines. Dark. Terrible. 'A Drop of Sunshine' cha...

Mental discomfort is a field yet to be discovered. Where is the borderline between peculiarity and mental illness?...

This short animated film looks at the relationship between social spaces and taboos surrounding mental illness and other forms of marginalization. The film is intended as a mood piece, a chance encounter between a lone figure and an indifferent crowd...

An insight into the mind of a mentally ill and drug-addicted artist....

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A young woman, Jamie, is waiting in a coffee shop for a date when an unexpected arrival sends her spinning into paranoia....

When Rasmus was 15, his mother and siblings moved from the island Bornholm and left Rasmus with his mentally ill father. Influenced by his father's insecurity, anger and failure, Rasmus chooses to move from Bornholm at the age of 18. Two years later,...

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....

A cheating wife goes off the deep end when her side piece finds love with a single woman....

The film follows a thirty-year-old man’s efforts to introduce radical changes in his own life: to start visiting a therapist and preparing for the demolition of his bragging childhood home. Story chronicles the troubled relationship between Mārtiņš a...