Mental Illness Movies

An unflinching documentary of those dealing with mental illness in the criminal justice system and a profile of families who tragically fell victims...

Mara, an exhausted, anxious insomniac, is continuously plagued by familiar looking visions.

A man who lost his phone saw someone setting up and filming him with his lost phone while he went about his daily life. He started to get suspicious...

How many imaginary deathly diseases can you have before you die from fear and anxiety? This short documentary answers this question by trying to show...

Is a label reality or fiction?

Public safety short about the dangers to children who accept rides from strangers

Abby, a woman consumed by neglected OCD, finds herself trapped in a web of psychosis. Haunted by her inner demons, Abby battles debilitating...

Bubu is a poet who has been committed to state institutions for the insane twelve times. He challenges the meaning of hospital-jails, hybrid...

Florence Walker is an aspiring actress who's barely getting any auditions. After finding a sketchy casting call for a horror movie, she takes the...

Mental discomfort is a field yet to be discovered. Where is the borderline between peculiarity and mental illness?

What if, instead of bombs, we dropped watermelons? Dreamy and hopeful, this animated short sweeps us up into a colourful world where layers of...

About confusion and fear of the incomprehensible, deviations, and about mental illness as a phenomenon.

A prisoner belonging to a void known as “Lacuna,” longs to escape their entrapment. As they search for a way out, they confront the...

A little girl, now a woman, writes to her grandfather, wounded by a mental disorder. She watches him as he seethes inwardly, pondering the place of...

A young man faces a devitalizing mental crisis as the monotonous drain of his day job catches up to him at the end of the work week.

When three generations of women return to post-Soviet Europe to care for an ailing patriarch, they face a corrupt healthcare system and discover a...

A young woman is kidnapped by a mentally deranged man who believes she knows the person who calls him on a broken telephone.

Filmmaker Evie Wray travels to rural Kansas in an attempt to reconnect with her mentally unstable mother, Evie, for the first time since Evie’s...

Two codependent siblings document their unraveling through daily video messages to their absent mother, only to discover that their shared devotion...