Mental Health Movies

A mother struggles to connect with her mentally unstable daughter during visiting hours at a children's psych ward.

This 3-minute short film by Iain Delavan was created at a dark time in his life. In his usual abstract and expressive style, Delavan depicts an...

Sasha, 20, returns to her family’s sun-soaked home in the south of France with her friends—her first visit since her older sister’s...

While recovering in the hospital, a suicidal teenager forms an intimate bond with the Shanghai student assigned to watch over her, as their nightly...

A postpartum writer struggles to make a deadline as she experiences an identity crisis between her various personas.

It's been years since Stef last left her house. The loss of her brother combined with the quiet dread of the unknown conspiring to keep her inside....

Ava remembers her childhood home as a place full of amazing things and adventures. The day she returns home from university, however, everything...

Hugh has lost his "zest for living" and it seems like the women in his life are mostly to blame.

When her lifeline - a new technology for mental health - mysteriously vanishes, a reclusive young woman must infiltrate a secret underground rave...

Two friends venture into a Michigan forest to fulfill a disturbing pact, but when their plan goes horribly wrong, the haunting consequences of their...

Mireia has just come out of a toxic relationship that prevents her from enduring physical contact when she is offered the lead role of "Sleeping...

When the Cows Come Home introduces audiences to Tilly and Maggie, a pair of cows that musician, journalist, artist and cow whisperer, Andrew...

Using poetry, interviews with psychologists and survivors, and corporeal imagery, Broca is an experimental documentary hybrid that explores how the...

A handsome and successful young man with a lovely fiancée, James Jackson seems to have everything going for him, but his life begins to...

A short film portrays the events of a depressed man's day, culminating, presumably, in his suicide, though the ending is ambiguous. Afterwards, a...

A lonely high school girl escapes depression and her bullies when she meets the perfect boy online, but is he too good to be true? A multi-faceted...

Jorge is a musician, he gets fired trying to find a melody from the noise of the street, the same day his wife and youngest son died. He must appear...

Follows the story of Freddie Stevenson from his meteoric rise through high school and college football to a chaotic life afterwards that led him to...

Eva’s being allowed to leave the psychiatric institution she’s lived in for six years. After a long year of waiting, the news arrive: an...