On the Edge (2023)
• March 18th, 2023 • 1h 42min
Documentary
Overview
Things are busy at the Paris hospital where young psychiatrist Jamal and his colleagues work. The place is run down, the staff are exhausted, budgets are constantly being slashed. You know the story, but you’ve rarely seen it conveyed as engagingly as in ‘On the Edge’, which employs a handheld camera and meaningful, artistic interventions to observe the daily routine at the psychiatric ward. The deeply sympathetic Jamal is an everyday hero with an exemplary, humanistic disposition, for whom the most important prerequisites for mental health – and for a healthy society in general – are good relationships with other people. He puts his philosophy into practice by listening patiently, giving good advice and organising theatre exercises based on Molière. Realism and idealism, however, are in balance for the young doctor, at least as long as the institutional framework holds up.
Make sure to check your pop-up blocker!!
Trailer
Similar Movies
Ghetto - The Secret Life of the City
Released on: 1996-01-01
Documentary
Belgrade in the 1990s seen through the eyes of Goran Čavajda 'Čavke', the late drummer of Serbian ro...
Big Charity: The Death of America's Oldest Hospital
Released on: 2014-05-03
Documentary
This documentary film includes never-before-seen footage and exclusive interviews to tell the story ...
11 Underground
Released on: 2024-12-31
Documentary
In 1984, eleven miners entrenched themselves underground to protest for better working conditions in...
Der lange Weg ans Licht
Released on: 2008-02-28
Documentary
Edeltraut Hertel - a midwife caught between two worlds. She has been working as a midwife in a small...
À votre santé
Released on: 1974-09-01
Documentary
Focuses on the state of the Quebec health system in the early 1970s. This film reveals the harsh rea...
The Bubble
Released on: 2018-07-12
Documentary, History, Comedy
Diving deep into the true causes of the Great Recession, the financial crisis of the 2010s, renowned...
Enron: The Smartest Guys in the Room
Released on: 2005-04-22
Documentary
A documentary about the Enron corporation, its faulty and corrupt business practices, and how they l...
The Year of the Discovery
Released on: 2020-11-13
Documentary
In 1992 – 500 years after the beginning of Spain's global empire with the discovery of America – Spa...
What Did You Take?
Released on: 1971-01-23
Documentary
Stresses recognition and treatment of drug abuse emergencies, accurate identification of symptoms, a...
Burning Out
Released on: 2016-11-18
Documentary, Drama
Burning Out is literally a drama about life and death. For two years, the Belgian director Jérôme le...
Correspondance privée sur un lieu public
Released on: 1988-08-06
Documentary, Drama
I started from the assumption that the discourse about the hospital could be the objective pretext f...
Phases of Matter
Released on: 2020-01-25
Documentary
Phases of Matter follows living and inanimate residents of a teaching hospital in Istanbul, moving f...
Cyrille
Released on: 2020-02-26
Documentary
Cyrille, a young gay farmer from Auvergne, has only one friend, a homosexual like him. One day, he g...
Jung On Film
Released on: 1957-06-10
Documentary
This compelling film represents a rare record of an original genius. In Jung on Film, the pioneering...
Collapse
Released on: 2009-09-12
Documentary, Drama
From the acclaimed director of American Movie, the documentary follows former Los Angeles police off...
OXI, an Act of Resistance
Released on: 2014-10-09
Documentary, Drama
The popular resistance to the current Greek economic crisis explored and expressed through the ethic...
Defining Hope
Released on: 2017-11-03
Documentary
We aren't dying the way we used to. We have ventilators, dialysis machines, ICUs-technologies that c...
Capitalism Hits the Fan
Released on: 2009-01-01
Documentary
With breathtaking clarity, renowned University of Massachusetts Economics Professor Richard Wolff br...