Mental Health Filmes

"Video by Bill Etra, early to mid 1970s, perhaps at the WNET TV Lab?"

16 year old Josh, Opens up about his mental health problems in which he finds a community of people to support him

An exploration into the world of someone's psyche and how they find the words to explain the way they are viewing the world around them.

Max talks about the different ways that we take care about ourselves and others as he introduces the concept of mental health to young viewers.

'M' is an old woman who lives adrift: a lonely shadow that crosses her own geography every day. She spends her days dreaming about her past, until...

A dark entity lingers over Elsie. A daily struggle, impaired thoughts and emotions causing her to lose contact with external reality.

Manly Feelings is a short film by Chris Blom, about the difficulty that many men face while experiencing, expressing, and sharing the difficult...

A young man starting University decides to seek support for his mental health. But getting the help he needs proves to be far more difficult than...

First Responders sign up to serve; they risk their lives and their mental health to respond to someone’s worst day. Who will rescue them?...

"Wolfe" is an intimate confessional from Nick, who learned through puberty that the imaginary friend in his head was real, and violent.

We came from dust and we'll eventually return to it. Just like stars, at one final moment we'll meet our imminent collapse, then why turn against it...

A personal, poetic essay film exploring eye contact, social anxiety, and the nature of connection between self and other.

Based on a fictionalized 2015 memoir from psychiatric nurse Mary Dorsan, the text embeds within a teenage psychiatric ward over the course of a year,...

Jeanne is a black artist in her sixties who hasn't had the career she'd hoped for. She has fallen into a deep depression. Bitter, she is unable to...

A lone, crisis-hotline operator receives a distressing call during her graveyard shift.

It offers a nuanced look at life in the women's ward of a psychiatric clinic, where most patients have been convicted of a crime.

Mental health experts discuss the causes of anxiety, its sociological effects and what can be done about it.