Happy People

When 12-year-old Elsi Björkman and her mother Paula return from a week's holiday abroad, Elsi immediately notices that someone has been in her room. She tells her mother about it, but she does not believe her. At the local supermarket Elsi meets Henry, who seems to spend his time returning shopping trolleys. Elsi does not know anything about the boy, who has an irritating habit of appearing from out of nowhere, only to disappear again, as if into thin air. Nevertheless, the children become friends.

Uma ex-funcionária de escritório desempregada à procura de emprego flutua uma frágil linha de sanidade enquanto luta para encontrar amizade e companhia. Sua apreensão ténue da realidade flutua ainda mais quando um homem que ela conheceu num restaurante e com quem começou um caso é chamado para ir para a Índia para uma comissão. A última gota ocorre quando ela é despejada e se muda para um hotel desprezível. Começa então a procurar sexo ocasional em locais pouco ortodoxos apenas para ter o contacto humano.

An ordinary housewife, Yeong-hye, who has nightmares every night, finally becomes a vegetarian, throwing away all the meats in her refrigerator. Her husband Kil-soo starts to complain about her actions. Her family also worries about her health. During a family lunch, Yeong-hye tries to kill herself due to her father's abrupt violence. Observing all the happenings, Yeong-hye's brother-in-law, Min-ho, a videoartist, hears from his wife that Yeong-hye has a Mongolian spot on her hips. Min-ho gets inspiration from this and starts to sketch.

After having her second child, a German housewife suffers from post-partum depression before inexplicably falling into a continually misdiagnosed mental state, befuddling her relatives.

MENTAL is a feature-length documentary that observes the complex world of an outpatient mental health clinic in Japan, interwoven with patients, doctors, staff, volunteers, and home-helpers, in cinema- verite style. The film breaks a major taboo against discussing mental illness prevalent in Japanese society, and captures the candid lives of people coping with suicidal tendencies, poverty, a sense of shame, apprehension, and fear of society.

Dominik é um garoto comum. Ele tem um monte de amigos, pais ricos e dinheiro para gastar em roupas de marca. Mas um beijo inocente com um colega muda tudo. Ele sofre bullying e começa a isolar-se do mundo exterior, vivendo todo o seu tempo em seu computador. Ele conhece uma garota anônima que lhe apresenta a "sala suicida", um lugar do qual não há escapatória. Pego em uma armadilha tecida por suas próprias emoções, Dominik torna-se enredado numa teia de intrigas e gradualmente perde o que ele mais aprecia.

"Through rare historical and contemporary footage and interviews with more than 160 doctors, attorneys, educators, survivors and experts on the mental health industry and its abuses, this riveting documentary blazes the bright light of truth on the brutal pseudoscience and the multi-billion dollar fraud that is psychiatry" - The Citizens Commission on Human Rights

Lise, a mentally unbalanced middle-aged woman, travels from her home in London to Rome, Italy where she embarks on a fatal destiny that she had helped to arrange for herself — a premeditated search for someone, anyone, with whom she could form a dangerous liaison.

Charlie é um jovem que tem dificuldades para interagir em sua nova escola. Com os nervos à flor da pele, ele se sente deslocado no ambiente. Sua professora de literatura, no entanto, acredita nele e o vê como um gênio. Mas Charlie continua a pensar pouco de si… até o dia em que dois amigos, Patrick e Sam, passam a andar com ele.

Against the counsel of his friends, psychiatrist Dick Diver marries Nicole Warren, a beautiful but unstable young woman from a moneyed family. Thoroughly enraptured, he forsakes his career in medicine for life as a playboy, until one day Dick is charmed by Rosemary Hoyt, an American traveling abroad. The thought of Dick possibly being attracted to someone else sends Nicole on an emotional downward spiral that threatens to consume them both.

Housewife Annie Marsh suspects her husband might be The Hawk, a brutal serial killer. Complicating matters is the fact that she once was incarcerated in a psychiatric hospital. When she discovers she does not have the happy marriage she always believed and begins to piece together the times and dates of her husband's frequent absences, her fears begin to take hold, and her sanity deteriorates.

A man has an accident while out riding his horse and soon discovers that he now has a split personality, and that his alternate is helping a criminal to rob his house.

True story of the life of Jimmy Piersall, who battled mental illness to achieve stardom in major league baseball.

Um funcionário de um escritório (Christian Slater) planeja matar seus companheiros de trabalho de diversas maneiras nesta sátira escura.

Um monarca britânico do século 18 ama sua devotada rainha, mas uma doença afeta gravemente sua mente.

Um arquiteto, Max Klein, e uma jovem mãe, Carla, são passageiros num avião que sofre um violento acidente. Ambos sobrevivem, mas o filho de Carla morre na acidente. Para Max, o acidente foi o momento para colocar de lado todos os seus temores e encontrar a tranquilidade e paz. Passa a ver o mundo de uma maneira completamente diferente, aproveitando todos os momentos e pormenores que a vida tem. Relutante em deixar esse estado de êxtase, Max não consegue perceber que está se afastando cada vez mais da sua mulher. Para Carla, a sua vida acabou no momento em que o seu filho morreu no fatal acidente. Duas pessoas que nunca iriam se conhecer em qualquer outra circunstância, Max e Carla iniciam uma amizade.

Em Madri, nos anos 1950 vive Montse (Macarena Gómez), uma mulher que sofre de Agorafobia cuida da irmã mais nova (Nadia de Santiago), já que a mãe morreu durante o parto e o pai abandonou as filhas. A doença de Montse faz com que ela se prenda dentro de um apartamento, piorando a situação. Um dia, a relação entre as irmãs começa a mudar com a chegada de um vizinho Carlos (Hugo Silva).

Kren's second film and the first he cut according to a strictly serial, sequence technique: in various frame sizes, the 48 portraits from the Szondi Test for "experimental diagnosis of human impulses" are shown in pre-specified lengths (between one and eight frames).

"You are suffering from a mental fragility,” the doctor tells Ahang as she desperately tries to understand why she sometimes feels so terribly sad, as though everything has fallen apart. From the outside, she seems to live a sound and good life. For periods of time everything feels really good. But then it hits her: that horrific panic and despair that destroys everything and presses her down into a deep black hole.

This documentary invites the audience to avoid the health mistakes of the Egyptians, and eat like the gladiators and earth´s longest living people for optimal fitness mentally and physically. It is a journey through ancient history until today. Health principles that can impact our modern lives.