The filmmakers' 21-year-old daughter journeys from locked-down psych wards and diagnostic labels toward expansive worlds of creativity, connection, and greater meaning. Featuring insights from trauma experts and others, the film challenges the widespread idea that mental illness should be understood purely in biological terms, revealing the myriad ways that madness has meaning beyond brain chemistry.
Days of Madness portray an incredible odyssey of two mentally diverse and unjustly rejected people w...
Familiar Phantoms is an experimental documentary short film about memory, history and trauma.
When a Mongolian nomadic family's newest camel colt is rejected by its mother, a musician is needed ...
A documentary that records the daily life of a mother with a limited life expectancy and a grandmoth...
This documentary is about Carlitos, a young man with mental disability who has a particular vision o...
The documentary's title translates as "to be and to have", the two auxiliary verbs in the French lan...
Petr and Simona have been living together for twenty-five years. They have nine children, with whom ...
An Oscar nominated documentary about a middle-class American family who is torn apart when the fathe...
A documentary about the corrupt health care system in The United States who's main goal is to make p...
Pop chronicles the journey of three generations of Meyerowitz men on a road trip from Florida to the...
Arctic Tale is a 2007 documentary film from the National Geographic Society about the life cycle of ...
Roxana follows a young mother’s return to the juvenile detention center she was once incarcerated in...
Thomas Haemmerli is about to celebrate his fortieth birthday when he learns of his mother's death. A...
Filmmaker Jonathan Caouette's documentary on growing up with his schizophrenic mother -- a mixture o...
What would your family reminiscences about dad sound like if he had been an early supporter of Hitle...
The story of three Turkish men. They all grew up in Switzerland and all got deported after various c...
Director Dominique Leclerc spent years depending on medical devices for her survival. Then, looking ...
In America, everyone has a family story of immigration. Every family, at some point, has had somebod...