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Scottish Mental Health Arts and Film Festival · 2017

Scottish Mental Health Arts and Film Festival 2017

Official Selection Shorts

Programme

18 films

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Adam, Where Are You?

A short drama about mental health issues.

(Country: UK; Year: 2016; Director: Gordon Collins)

Adaptation

A short film.

(Country: Poland; Year: 2016; Director: Bartosz Kruhlik)

Afterglow (Poente)

A sensorial movie about finding the joy of living again

(Country: Brazil; Year: 2017; Director: Akira Kamiki; Writer: Akira Kamiki; Stars: Pedro Bosnich, Gustavo Haddad)

Alexithymia

What's it like to feel no emotion? A young filmmaker questions his growing inability to connect to his emotions by talking to a stranger online who can’t feel any. This stranger has alexithymia, which is a condition most simply described as ‘emotional blindness’, the inability to identify and describe emotions in the self.

(Country: UK; Year: 2017; Director: Duncan Cowles)

Always Sometimes Never

A short drama.

(Country: UK; Year: 2017; Director: Helena Ohman)

Apnea (Apneé)

After her fall, Sophie is aiming to the surface, but she's unable to trust her entourage anymore.

(Country: Canada; Year: 2016; Director: Alexis Chartrand; Writer: Alexis Chartrand; Stars: Alexa-Jeanne Dubé)

The Ballad Of Polly And Nelly

A short animation.

(Country: UK; Year: 2017; Director: Dundee Futures Project)

Barrier

A short documentary.

(Country: UK; Year: 2017; Director: Paul Cunningham)

Between Sand And Tides

A short animation.

(Country: UK; Year: 2017; Director: Rui Fan Wang)

Black Dog

A short documentary.

(Country: UK; Year: 2017; Director: Jasper Valentine)

Blue

A short documentary on mental health issues.

(Country: Jordan; Year: 2016; Director: Hiba Nabulsi)

Control

A short documentary.

(Country: UK; Year: 2017; Director: Mary Johnston)

Coping

A short drama about mental health.

(Country: Ghana; Year: 2016; Director: Edem Dotse)

Eyes Closed

A short documentary.

(Country: Finland; Year: 2017; Director: Tero Peltoniemi)

Fog

In a desperate attempt to connect with her ghostly schizophrenic father, a young woman tempers with his medication.

(Country: Canada; Year: 2016; Director: Jacinthe Dessureault; Writer: Jacinthe Dessureault; Stars: Juliette Gosselin, Alain Houle)

Gambling With Minds

An experimental documentary which voices the experiences of various mental health advocates who have lived experience of mental illness and the Australian mental health system.

(Country: Australia; Year: 2017; Director: Genevieve Clay-Smith; Writer: Natalie Barnes, Vera Caldwell; Stars: Omer Astrachan, Natalie Barnes, Vera Caldwell, Maja Giev, Robert Musicco, Jimmy Paxton)

Gratus

A documentary that explores how practicing gratitude can have a positive impact on mental health and assist in the journey of recovery after experiencing a complex mental health issue.

(Country: Australia; Year: 2017; Director: Sarah Johnson; Writer: Sarah Johnson; Stars: Izaak Love, Barbara Pashut, George Taska, Adam Troy, Joel Webbe, David Yang)

Hidden

A short documentary.

(Country: UK; Year: 2017; Director: Sharon Graham)