SPECULUM – Directed by Milena Adrianna Hübscher
Runtime: 06:26
Dive into Viktor’s mind & warped reality as he struggles with derealization & depersonalization.
SLICE/SILENCE – Directed by Steph Vajda
Runtime: 10:56
Together with The Big Anxiety (TBA), Indigo plans to create a safe space for survivors and supporters at TBA’s Naarm (Melbourne) Forum. Using cushions as a medium for people to engage with self-injury and healing, it’s her first opportunity to step out on her own to bring together her activism, creativity, and passion to connect with other survivors.
AUTISM: THE LIFE BEHIND THE WORD – Directed by Victor Ilyukhin, Olga Lvoff, and Rick Guidotti
Runtime: 12:54
This short film sits with children and adults with Intellectual Developmental Disabilities and Autism, shining light on crossovers between disability and mental health. Personal reflections from individuals and their families call for necessary systemic changes that create a more inclusive and caring society.
I THINK THEREFORE I BOOM – Directed by Ben Weber
Runtime: 16:31
A struggling young mother strives to bind her family together despite having an unstable husband, but everything changes when she realizes her four-year-old is missing and neglected by his absent-minded father.
DEAR ANI – Directed by Micah B Levin
Runtime: 38:22
In 1995, an aspiring artist and college sophomore took a semester off to live in a cabin in Northern Maine. He sat by the edge of a lake and asked the universe to send him a “story worth telling”. Two months later, he was admitted to Bellevue Hospital, while searching for Ani DiFranco. Was this a vision quest? A mental health issue? Was this all an elaborate art project?