THANKS FOR COMING IN

Director: Marco Gentile

Country of Origin: United States

Runtime: 11:30 min.

Mental Health Topic: Eating Disorder

This narrative short is an autobiographical quirky dramedy about male body dysmorphia and the casual brutalities of the casting process.

I’ll CALL YOU IN A FEW

Director: Carmen Sarieddine

Country of Origin: Lebanon

Runtime: 13:30 min.

Mental Health Topic: Suicide

During his night shift break, Karim, a suicide hotline operator, is in the toilet talking to his best friend Nour who is having a breakdown over the phone.

AMANZE

Director: Lucy Hawes

Country of Origin: United Kingdom

Runtime: 08:52 min.

Mental Health Topic: Dementia / Art as a coping mechanism

From Harlesden to Luton, we are transported through time, peeling back the layers of Ronald Amaze and his incredible life.

HOLD ME DOWN

Director: Caolan Flood

Country of Origin: Germany

Runtime: 04:28 min.

Mental Health Topic: Anxiety

This is a dance film about two young men struggling to cope in isolation.

APNOIA

Director: Vanessa Payri

Country of Origin: Canada

Runtime: 15:00 min.

Mental Health Topic: Abuse & Trauma

This documentary short is a testimony polyphony of sexual assault survivors.

MENTAL ABUSE MATTERS

Director: Lucy Baxter

Country of Origin: United Kingdom

Runtime: 04:26 min.

Mental Health Topic: Abuse

The Mental Abuse Matters animation explores emotional abuse in an intimate relationship and the phenomenon of “Gaslighting”, where the abuser dislocates the victim from reality and causes them to question their judgment and sanity.

TOO LATE

Director: Kinga Syrek

Country of Origin: Poland

Runtime: 15:34 min.

Mental Health Topic: Parental Heritage / Addiction

The protagonist of the animated film is Edie Sedgwick, a model, actress, and star of Andy Warhol's films. The film, however, is not about her relationship with Warhol, but the relationship with her toxic father.

VISUAL POETRY: SELF LOVE

Director: Sofia Monzerratt

Country of Origin: United States

Runtime: 02:10 min.

Mental Health Topic: Self-Worth

The personal journey of discovering and internalizing self-worth.

MAYFLY

Director: Joel Ängeby

Country of Origin: Sweden

Runtime: 19:44 min.

Mental Health Topic: Borderline Personality Disorder

Lisa is trying to put her life back together, after a breakup with her girlfriend and a following failed attempt suicide.

JUST IN CASE

Director: April Kelley

Country of Origin: United Kingdom

Runtime: 14:00 min.

Mental Health Topic: Bipolar Personality Disorder

Rachel lives with bipolar disorder and the invisibility of her condition has become all too real for both herself and her father.

GOLDFISH IN THE HAMSTER WHEEL

Director: Christoph Amort

Country of Origin: Austria

Runtime: 13:04 min.

Mental Health Topic: Depression

A young woman suffering from depression tries to solve her unbearable carousel of thoughts within herself.

THE SOUND

Director: Antony Petrou

Country of Origin: Cyprus

Runtime: 15:00 min.

Mental Health Topic: Suicide & Mental Health Stigma

One day, out of nowhere, Beth’s fragile mother begins to hear a mysterious sound that nobody else can hear. The Sound quickly becomes an overwhelming source of pain and frustration, driving Beth’s mother to the brink.

INHERITACE

Director: John Marinopoulos

Country of Origin: Greece

Runtime: 10:00 min.

Mental Health Topic: Parental Heritage

Having just arrived from her family home in the country, a young woman grapples with the sinister forces that might have followed.

THE DARK MONSTER

Director: Patricia Beckmann Wells, Peter Thomas Wells

Country of Origin: United States

Runtime: 02:00 min.

Mental Health Topic: Anxiety

A young boy falls prey to a demon who changes his life. - Peter Wells, 9 years old, wrote the original story as an effort to quell his increased fear of monsters initiated by the pandemic.