In 1983, the director’s 24-year-old sister developed symptoms of schizophrenia. Her parents couldn’t accept it—refusing to seek treatment for their sick child, they confined her to their house, to the point of even fixing a padlock on the front door to lock her in. Her younger brother, suspicious of his parents’ actions, began filming the family in an effort to openly question them. A family conflict that lasted over twenty years.
Faceless is a documentary film about the workings of an inpatient psychiatry unit, seen through the ...
"Beyond Hoarding" takes a fresh look at hoarding through the experiences of people afflicted with th...
Staged as a series of voiceover sessions, written with gloriously off-balanced precision and dipped ...
In May 1998, a year before the massacre at Columbine High, 15-year-old Kip Kinkel murdered his mothe...
Sparked by the impending 25th anniversary of the Academy award-winning film Shine, this documentary ...
The lives of Jeff, Lauren and Lloyd—three very different people who share one common experience—have...
It’s the second semester of junior year for Pierce “Sparni” Sparnroft, a gifted jazz vibraphonist st...
When Rasmus was 15, his mother and siblings moved from the island Bornholm and left Rasmus with his ...
The first time Regina tried to kill herself, she was 5 years old. Now she's 45 and hell-bent on tryi...
Western culture treats mental disorders primarily through biomedical psychiatry, but filmmakers Phil...
Initially airing on HBO's "America Undercover" series, this riveting documentary focuses on three fa...
Documentary about Manuel Méndez, better known as Manolo Kabezabolo, a punk artist who in a somewhat ...
Marked by childhood trauma, three women from different generations living with an eating disorder tr...
In his first HBO comedy special, Gary Gulman offers candid reflections on his struggles with depress...
Filmmaker Stephen Hosier takes a journey with Richard Csanyi, his childhood friend, as he investigat...
Scott Panetti was tried for the capital murder of his parents-in-law on September 8, 1992 in Gillesp...
New York, 1980. Three complete strangers accidentally discover that they're identical triplets, sepa...
Grave robbing, torture, possessed nuns, and a satanic Sabbath: Benjamin Christensen's legendary film...
A short form exploration of the very visceral and disorienting world of living with severe anxiety a...