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Scottish Mental Health Arts and Film Festival · 2015

Scottish Mental Health Arts and Film Festival 2015

Documentaries

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10 films · 3 reviews

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Vermeulen has chosen to make a quiet film that allows us to spend time with the men themselves and appreciate what they're going through.

Jennie Kermode · 3 out of 5
A documentary following five different inmates in Merksplas’ Prison who are held indefinitely because they are mentally ill.

(Country: Belgium; Year: 2014; Director: Ellen Vermeulen)

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The Closer We Get

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Emotional weight grounds the film and gives it a resonance beyond the confines of this single family home.

Amber Wilkinson · 3.5 out of 5
Auto- biographical documentary about an apparently ordinary family having to stoically deal with broken dreams and hidden secrets.

(Country: UK, Ethiopia; Year: 2015; Director: Karen Guthrie; Writer: Karen Guthrie, Karen Guthrie; Stars: Karen Guthrie, Ian Guthrie, Ann Guthrie) , Official site

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Dancing With Maria

A 90 year old dancer whose body is gradually failing her perseveres in her work with physically and mentally disabled dance students.

(Country: Argentina, Italy, Slovenia; Year: 2014; Director: Ivan Gergole; Stars: Maria Fux)

Dead When I Got Here

A young man from Juárez, weak with gangrene, is dumped by his parents in a psychiatric institution run by its inmates.

(Country: UK, Mexico, US; Year: 2015; Director: Mark Aitken; Writer: Mark Aitken)

Garnet's Gold

A highlander searches obsessively for a hoard of treasure he believes was hidden by Bonnie Prince Charlie.

(Country: UK; Year: 2014; Director: Ed Perkins; Stars: Garnet Frost)

Good Girl

A documentarian hit by depression turns her camera on herself.

(Country: Norway; Year: 2014; Director: Solveig Melkeraaen; Writer: Solveig Melkeraaen; Stars: Ravn Lanesskog, Solveig Melkeraaen)

Ida's Diary

The video diary of a young woman struggling with borderline personality disorder.

(Country: Norway, Finland, UK; Year: 2014; Director: August B. Hanssen)

Juanicas

A filmmaker records her brother's relapse into depression and paranoia.

(Country: Canada, Mexico; Year: 2015; Director: Karina Garcia Casanova; Stars: Juan Casanova, Karina Garcia Casanova)

The Silence Of The Flies (El Silencio De Las Moscas)

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The voices of the bereaved come through clearly in this sensitive film, whilst fragments of art and writing carry those of the deceased.

Jennie Kermode · 4 out of 5
A documentary looking at the mysterious suicide epidemic in the Venezuelan Andes and meeting two women who have lost their daughters to it.

(Country: Venezuela; Year: 2013; Director: Elizier Arias)

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So You're Going Crazy...

Interview footage and animation combines to communicate the experience of shifting reality and psychoses.

(Country: Canada; Year: 2010; Director: Hilary Dean)