Category: Films

This art show was created through a call for art that asked artists with lived experience, “How has art helped you survive?” This collection of work was accompanied by artist statements and gallery which are provided in their entirety here. Each artwork with edited versions of the statements was shown in the theater in between…

Documentary 2026 United Kingdom 25 minutes Language: English Director: Emma Goude Producer: www.greenlanefilms.co.uk Synopsis from the producer OPEN DIALOGUE & THE ODDESSI TRIAL follows the journey of Emma Goude, author of My Beautiful Psychosis, who spent three years filming the Peer Supported Open Dialogue training in the UK. Following the progress of the ODDESSI trial, which…

Documentary 2025 Norway 70 minutes Language: NorwegianSubtitles: English Director: Nora Nivedita Tvedt Producer: Lillian Løvseth A family documentary about Tuni and her best friend, the dog Salto. In September 2021, Tuni’s half-brother took his own life, and her mother was diagnosed with terminal cancer. Because of the difficult circumstances, Tuni finds it challenging to talk…

Documentary 2025 Poland 10 minutes Language: Polish Subtitles: English Director: Joanna Obiegałka The film titled “Joanna” tells a deeply personal and moving story about a mental health crisis, the search for meaning, the recovery process, and the power of dreams. Summary A poignant exploration of vulnerability and resilience, Joanna follows one woman’s journey through a…

Documentary 2025 Italy 14 minutes Language: ItalianSubtitles: English Director: Samuele Wurtzwith: Caterina Gulfo and Yahya Mahfoud «The Cicadas» is realized by the students of a technical high school of a rural area in the north-west of Italy (Savona county). The film is about nature, pollution caused by chemical industries, immigration from north Africa and adolescence.…

Documentary 2024 Norway 8 minutes Language: English Produced by MUNCH in collaboration with Spindel Film. ©Munchmuseet The film is shown and shared with permission from the Munch Museum Edvard Munch was one of Modernism’s most significant artists. His tenacious experimentation within painting, graphic art, drawing, sculpture, photo and film has given him a unique position…

Documentary Denmark 2026 Language: English Director: Janus Bang Is psychiatry an illusion? To answer this question, we need to look at what psychiatric leaders do; what they tell the public that their specialty can accomplish; if the patients agree with them; and what the science tells us. Summary Psychiatry affects us all. We all become…

Documentary 2025 USA 7 minutes Language: English Director: Kermit Cole Ida Katharine Graver paints because life depends on it. On the edge of being abandoned to psychiatry as a child – a broken blossom – she thrived instead as a hothouse flower: gathering the shapes and colors of life and giving back to the world…

Documentary 2026 Germany 35 minutes Language: GermanSubtitles: English Director: Josepha Groner Synopsis   Being In A Film is an intimate documentary portrait of Ingrid E. Johnson. Born and raised in the United States, Ingrid grew up in front of a camera. Her German grandfather, eager to stay connected to the family’s life across the Atlantic, gave…

Documentary/science fiction parody 2026 USA 15 minutes Language: EnglishSubtitles: English Director and producer: Issa Ibrahim Website: https://www.issaibrahim.net/films Synopsis Would you trust a mentally ill artist to negotiate the fate of civilization with aliens over zoom?  Only if he were The Last Black Man on Earth. A pretend virtual sci-fi documentary. Multi-disciplinary artist Issa Ibrahim courageously…