Mental Illness Movies

Mental discomfort is a field yet to be discovered. Where is the borderline between peculiarity and mental illness?

Recently released from the psych ward, Allen struggles to cope with his depression which leads him to strange occurrences that quickly spiral into a...

A short form exploration of the very visceral and disorienting world of living with severe anxiety and depression, the world’s biggest health...

This short animated film looks at the relationship between social spaces and taboos surrounding mental illness and other forms of marginalization....

A relationship between two college students is put to the test when one of them falls into depression.

A woman tormented by her depression and the monster in the mirror seeks refuge and finds a rare moment of honesty with herself.

In early times, evil spirits were thought to possess people and make them act in strange and frightening ways. By the 1800's, the study of this...

Harley, a twenty-year-old college student, visits her doctor to share how she's been feeling off lately. A recent culmination of events has caused...

Manuela is a woman who leads an extremely gridded life, always following a list of tasks that gives meaning to her existence. The moment that list...

A twinless twin struggles with her identity while a sheeted being attempts to rescue her.

Documentary about the two of the greatest Swedish artists of the 19th century, Ernst Josefson and Carl Fredrik Hill, and how their lives were changed...

With nearly two million people living in miserable conditions in Gaza, the Israeli blockade has taken its toll on mental health there. Against the...

In this short film, a father (Ben Cable) tries to explain his wife's mental illness to his daughter (Sierra Nottingham).

In 1983, the director’s 24-year-old sister developed symptoms of schizophrenia. Her parents couldn’t accept it—refusing to seek...

About confusion and fear of the incomprehensible, deviations, and about mental illness as a phenomenon.

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...

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

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

Fleeting moments is a 3 minute short film made by the solely by the director to show the effect of grief and depression on a person's perception of...