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Scottish Mental Health Arts and Film Festival · 2014

Scottish Mental Health Arts and Film Festival 2014

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4 films · 3 reviews

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Gabrielle

Review preview for Gabrielle

Archambault has succeeded in making a film with her subjects and not simply about them – imperfections and all, while the musical element serves her purpose perfectly.

Richard Mowe · 3 out of 5
Young love comes up against prejudice.

(Country: Canada; Year: 2013; Director: Louise Archambault; Writer: Louise Archambault; Stars: Gabrielle Marion-Rivard, Mélissa Désormeaux-Poulin, Alexandre Landry)

Glasgow Girls

A group of girls rally round to try and save their friend from deportation.

(Country: UK; Year: 2014; Director: Brian Welsh; Stars: Aruhan Galieva, Letitia Wright)

Regeneration

Review preview for Regeneration

Jonathan Pryce conveys the burden of inner conflict with exceptional subtlety, as James Wilby carries Sassoon's intellectual fury with fortitude.

Angus Wolfe Murray · 4 out of 5
War poets meet in a military hospital for shell shocked soldiers.

(Country: UK/Canada; Year: 1997; Director: Gillies Mackinnon; Writer: Allan Scott, Peter R Simpson, based on the novel by Pat Barker; Stars: Jonathan Pryce, James Wilby, Jonny Lee Miller, Stuart Bunce, Tanya Allen, David Hayman, Dougray Scott, John Neville, Paul Young, Alastair Galbraith, Eileen Nicholas)

Stand Clear Of The Closing Doors

Review preview for Stand Clear Of The Closing Doors

Few portrayals of autism spectrum disorders in film have ever had the authenticity of this.

Jennie Kermode · 4 out of 5
A boy with Asperger's syndrome goes riding on the New York subway for days as his distraught mother searches for him.

(Country: US; Year: 2013; Director: Sam Fleischner; Writer: Micah Bloomberg, Rose Lichter-Marck)