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Festival coverage

Scottish Mental Health Arts and Film Festival

1 October – 26 October 2013

Hosted by the Mental Health Foundation, this is a film festival with a difference, focused on people who face different challenges in day to day life and exploring the diversity of perspectives that creates. It's an opportunity to reflect on the mental health narratives in popular films and to see independent films telling stories that don't usually find their way onto the big screen.

The festival runs from 1 to 26 October and includes events and screenings in Glasgow, Edinburgh, Perth, Dundee, Aberdeen and more.

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Latest reviews

  • Lovelace
    Review preview for Lovelace

    The harrowing latter half of the film could easily have become alienating, but Seyfried makes it compelling.

    Max Crawford · 3.5 out of 5
    The story of Deep Throat star Linda Lovelace.
  • First Cousin Once Removed
    Review preview for First Cousin Once Removed

    There is talk of his reaching a "transcendent place of nothingness", but this is not tranquil, this fading - it is distressing, discomfiting.

    Andrew Robertson · 4 out of 5
    Chronicle of poet Edward Honig's loss of memory.
  • Stories We Tell
    Review preview for Stories We Tell

    What is not in doubt is the raw emotion in this work - from Polley quivering with nervous energy as she watches her father read some of the more revelatory pieces of script - to the visible impact airing the family's dirty linen in public has on her sibli

    Amber Wilkinson · 4 out of 5
    Sarah Polley investigates secrets in her own family.
  • I Am Breathing
    Review preview for I Am Breathing

    Neil's insistence on telling his own story with his own voice, on getting that voice out there for the rest of the world to listen to, is itself a fierce act, evidence of a rare vitality.

    Jennie Kermode · 3.5 out of 5
    A documentary about one man's experience of motor neurone disease.
  • Silver Linings Playbook
    Review preview for Silver Linings Playbook

    Russell impressively couples gambling strategies with self-help mantras to expose the machinations of searching minds who don't know how to flee the ugly banal lives of most common betrayals and economic anxieties.

    Anne-Katrin Titze · 4 out of 5
    A man trying to reconcile with his wife after a stint in a mental institution finds things get complicated when he meets a mystery girl.
  • Robot And Frank
    Review preview for Robot And Frank

    Jake Schreier and scriptwriter Christopher Ford go well beyond the initial fun of the robot conceit to craft a thoughtful film musing on both the ageing process and our relationship with technology.

    Amber Wilkinson · 4 out of 5
    A curmudgeonly OAP's kids install a robot as his caretaker.
  • The Angels' Share
    Review preview for The Angels' Share

    One of The Angels' Share's strongest points is the way the script and the actors capture natural language.

    Donald Munro · 4 out of 5
    A group of young offenders doing community service find inspiration in whisky.
  • Videodrome
    Review preview for Videodrome

    Nothing else has captured quite so succinctly the dynamics of the information revolution or its impact on what it means to be human.

    Jennie Kermode · 4.5 out of 5
    Looking for the next big thing, a cable TV station programmer finds himself losing control in the grip of a phenomenon that is ready to alter reality forever.
  • We Need To Talk About Kevin
    Review preview for We Need To Talk About Kevin

    Lynne Ramsay's adaptation of the book perfectly matches its intimacy, too close for comfort for some, and manages to make aspects of it even darker.

    Jennie Kermode · 5 out of 5
    The much-anticipated film based on Lionel Shriver's Orange Prize-winning novel about a mother at odds with her dangerous son.
  • Take Shelter
    Review preview for Take Shelter

    An astounding film.

    Jennie Kermode · 5 out of 5
    After experiencing visions of impending catastrophe, an ordinary man takes extraordinary measures - but can he trust the evidence of his own senses?

A–Z of Scottish Mental Health Arts and Film Festival 2013 reviews

Features

  • Among the angels
    Ken Loach, Gary Maitland and Jasmin Riggins at the UK premiere of The Angels' Share.
  • All about Kevin
    Lynne Ramsay and Ezra Miller on the film everybody's talking about.