Based on the creepypasta by Brinker X. You'd think that nightmares are nothing but your imagination, but for Alex they were very real. Now as an adult, Alex reminisces on his childhood trauma with a psychiatrist to get to the bottom of what terrorized his youth.
A man, suffering from severe insomnia, is prescribed an untested sleeping medication, which causes vivid hallucinations, as his dark past comes back to haunt him.
Die selbst betroffene Autorin und Regisseurin Gamma Bak hat es zum ersten Mal überhaupt gewagt, über die diversen Stadien ihrer Krankheit einen autobiografischen Film zu drehen. Entstanden ist ein extrem intimes und faszinierendes Selbstporträt, das nicht nur einen Einstieg in das komplexe Thema bietet, sondern auch einen direkten Einblick in das Ringen mit der Diagnose Psychose und der damit verbundenen Stigmatisierung erlaubt.
Voices is an award-winning documentary that features the stark and intimate portraits of three very different individuals and their struggle with severe mental illness in America. The stories of Sharon, Thomas and Aaron illuminate the challenges, realities, and often complex emotions and choices that surround people with psychotic mental illness and those who love them.
On the Franco-belgian border, there's a unique place that takes in children with mental and social problems. Day after day, the adults try to understand the enigma that each one of them represents and, without ever imposing anything on them, invent the solutions that will help them to live in peace, case by case. Through their stories, 'Like an Open Sky' reveals their singular vision of the world to us.
A gang of metalheads is partying in the woods and one of them has brought a new, unknown drug.
THEY HEARD VOICES is a documentary film exploring the Hearing Voices Movement, chronic psychosis, and the schizophrenia label. The film is a series of wide-ranging interviews with voice hearers, medical historians, anthropologists and psychiatrists from Britain and America, presenting different people’s views. Is schizophrenia hard science or an arbitrary, catch-all term with no real meaning? What does it mean for those experiencing psychosis?
"Breaking the Silence" is a fresh, new-look documentary film dedicated to everyone around the world who suffers quietly and in the shadows - alone, worn out, and without hope.
The wanderer Rascal embarks on a psychotic and contradictory journey to break out of the ego bubble in which his self-loathing and isolation have inserted him in. After his metamorphosis, his soulmate, Paloma, makes him realize that life is as complicated as it is simple - and that all that's left to do is to live.
David Harewood had a psychotic breakdown and was sectioned in his 20s. David traces his steps, meeting young people living with psychosis and the NHS professionals who treat them.
Jöran has a bipolar disorder, which makes him vulnerable to depression, mania and psychosis. He can sympathize well at the moment, but that has been different in the past. Jöran delves into his dark past and talks to the people who experienced his illness up close. How do you deal with this disorder and the misunderstood behavior that comes with it? And how do you break the taboo that still exists on disease pressure?
A dark entity lingers over Elsie. A daily struggle, impaired thoughts and emotions causing her to lose contact with external reality.
This documentary, set in the Lower East End of Vancouver's downtown core, is a pretty honest account of life on the streets in urban Canada. It is aimed at educating high school kids on the dangers of addiction to hard drugs and is the brainchild of a group of city police officers who videotape their interactions with local homeless personalities.
Menna is found on the street with soaked clothes and no memory of what happened. Only vague images of a bridge and Lia. What's real and what's not? And why do I hear running water?
Maggie visits a distant friend in hopes of finding solace from the bizarre terrors that plague her.
Through the eyes of a young girl suffering from mental illness, 'Caldera' glimpses into a world of psychosis and explores a world of ambiguous reality and the nature of life and death.
In an apartment a single and psychotic mother locks in herself and her daughter. Here, the demons are in control. Ti can hear her mother talking to the demons, and she sees her changing and confined face. But the demons that the mother speaks with Ti can neither hear nor see. Outwards, Ti is forced to keep a straight face to protect her mother, while she herself is going under.
Eva has a date that does not arrive, and some other issues.