Mental Illness Movies

What if, instead of bombs, we dropped watermelons? Dreamy and hopeful, this animated short sweeps us up into a colourful world where layers of...

When three generations of women return to post-Soviet Europe to care for an ailing patriarch, they face a corrupt healthcare system and discover a...

War and Peace of Mind explores what war does to the human mind and how both, the individuals and the nation as a whole, survive it psychologically....

'When' discusses the filmmaker's experience with mental illness and how it has impacted her perception of the world around her. It mainly focuses on...

Public safety short about the dangers to children who accept rides from strangers

Bethany and Sam are friends with a brewing romance that is long overdue. With the making of a student film together over Halloween, this romance...

Billy is a film buff who films himself non-stop. During a film shoot, he meets Lawrence Côté-Collins and the two become friends. One...

After a man dons a pair of fake vampire teeth for a Halloween party, he soon comes to find that he can't take them off again.

For a thirtieth birthday, two estranged brothers spend a weekend in the Oregon high desert. One arrives with a rental house, a bottle of whiskey, and...

The portrait of a woman who is driven to illness and despair by her circumstances.

Between the walls is a psychological study of guilt, power, and the illusion of freedom. The story follows the transformation of a man who believes...

Unfortunately, every year eight million people die quietly due to Mental Illness. It's urgent to decrease this number. It's urgent to help. It's...

A short film about two best friend's day out and what they accomplish in a day. This short film was inspired by a poem created by the writer (Khalid...

Faceless is a documentary film about the workings of an inpatient psychiatry unit, seen through the eyes of both the patients trying to get well and...

Landlady Fränzi is renting her secluded alpine hut for the first time and prepares everything in minute detail. However, due to an overbooking...

An unflinching documentary of those dealing with mental illness in the criminal justice system and a profile of families who tragically fell victims...

Bubu is a poet who has been committed to state institutions for the insane twelve times. He challenges the meaning of hospital-jails, hybrid...

A lonely man is invited to dinner by the woman who spies every night with his camera. The secrets will come to light, when both want to satisfy their...

A man struggles with guilt and his own perception of reality as he goes about his normal daily life.