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In this farewell letter to Ana (aka Anorexia), I reveal the suffering associated with this illness. I express my desire to regain my freedom and...

A teenager's parents finally realize how bad their home life is when their son is arrested for prowling.

Dino is 23 and dreams of a different life. She has left the mass unemployment of the Swedish provinces in search of happiness in nouveau-riche Oslo...

A young girl runs away from her home, her parents' incessant fighting, and everything she’s ever known. Accompanied by her best friend, Alma,...

Göte is an alcoholic dockworker who wants to turn his life around to get his son back.

Five subjects from Gen-Z take the PHQ-9 - a survey to assess the degree of one's depression severity. They -also- have a lot to say.

Thomas has decided to die, and spends his last day driving around to say good-bye to everybody, his son, wife, mistress and all others. Nobody...

13-year-old Gunther Strobbe grows up surrounded by alcohol, trash and his completely useless father and uncles. Slowly but surely, he's being...

This short film is a telling portrait of the discourse about and treatment of alcohol addiction in the middle of the 20th century. In a fictional...

A young man undergoes the dilemma of either letting the medication he takes for his bipolar disorder suppress his entire personality or be himself...

A filmmaker explores the past through various video archives in hopes of making sense of his suicidal ideation.

It's San Francisco in 1957, and an American masterpiece is put on trial. Howl, the film, recounts this dark moment using three interwoven threads:...