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.
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?
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.
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?
"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.
An adaptation of the play "4.48 Psychosis" written by Sarah Kane. The movie consists of scenes that work as a fragmenteded voyage through the mind of a person on a deeply depressive state. Everything is shown in a raw and experimental manner to bring the feelings and emotions in the most pure form to screen.
Maggie visits a distant friend in hopes of finding solace from the bizarre terrors that plague her.
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.
A gang of metalheads is partying in the woods and one of them has brought a new, unknown drug.
A dark entity lingers over Elsie. A daily struggle, impaired thoughts and emotions causing her to lose contact with external reality.
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.
Chronicles the making of director Werner Herzog’s 2009 feature, My Son, My Son, What Have Ye Done, providing profound insight into the director and his craft. My Son, My Son, What Have Ye Done was inspired by the true story of an actor who committed in reality the crime he was supposed to enact on stage: murdering his mother. With longtime friend Herbert Golder behind the lens, Herzog reveals the privacy and deep solitude that defines the director and his art.
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?
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.
A young Prince is visited by the Ghost of his father and compelled to vengeance - but can he stop thinking for long enough to do it?
Five years ago Alice saw her son murdered; now every day is consumed with the need to find his killer. In the sleepy town of Ludlow, the arrival of the mysterious stranger who Alice suspects of being the killer of her son coincides with a renewed spate of horrific child murders. Now a weary detective must uncover the truth behind the killings before another child is killed; and Alice must face the unbelievable truth behind the death of her son before insanity, grief and guilt break her mind
Eva has a date that does not arrive, and some other issues.
A ski instructor tries to teach a bunch of insanely eccentric people how to ski while dealing with everyone wanting his attention.
I giovani sposi Molly e Tim si trasferiscono nella casa di campagna del defunto padre di Molly. Ex tossicodipendente con un passato profondamente turbato, Molly cerca di essere forte nella sua nuova vita. Ma disturbi inspiegabili durante la notte la colpiscono improvvisamente e questo innervosisce la coppia. Quando il marito va via per lavoro, Molly viene lasciata sola in una casa che contiene molti ricordi dolorosi. Il suo isolamento è presto infranto da una presenza maligna che scatena un malessere fisico e mentale. Mentre lotta per riconquistare la sua posizione nella vita di tutti i giorni, la presa di coscienza di Molly sulla realtà comincia a vacillare. Il suo comportamento strano è un segnale di avvertimento per i suoi amici e familiari, i cui interventi la guidano ulteriormente in un solitario tormento e in un soffocante buio interiore.