Mar 1
Wednesday, March 17, 2010 - 7:30pm
Great Britain 2008. Director: Olly Lambert
Post-screening discussion with Dr. Ian Forbes
Cosponsored by Richmond Hospital’s Dept of Psychiatry.
VANCOUVER PREMIERE - When Ben Rogers picked up a video camera in 2004, he didn’t think he’d be filming the final two years of his life. Ben was 32 at the time and had been a heroin addict for 14 years.
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Jan 1
Wednesday, January 20, 2010 - 7:30pm
USA 2008. Director: Dana Perry
Post-screening discussion with Judy Davies, Jude Paltzer and
Dr. Jana Davidson.
Co-sponsored by Mood Disorders Association of BC (MDA), The Josh Platzer Society, the Crisis Centre and the Child & Adolescent Response Team (CART), Vancouver Community Mental Health Services.
Every parent’s worst nightmare is, unquestionably, the death of their child — the very event experienced by Dana Perry in 2005 with the suicide of her 15-year-old son Evan. A documentary filmmaker by trade, Dana sought solace by creating a film to try to understand the mind of a boy who asked in his suicide note “only to be forgotten.”
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Dec 1
Wednesday, December 16, 2009 7:30 pm
USA 2009. Directors: Katie Cadigan, Laura Murray
Post-screening discussion with
Joan Nazif and
Susan Inman
Co-sponsored by the Family Advisory Committee, Vancouver Community Mental Health Services.
Directors Katie Cadigan and Laura Murray's hard-hitting documentary which provides historical context for our contemporary mental health care crisis.
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Nov 1
Wednesday, November 18, 2009 - 7:30pm
Canada 2008. Director: Philippe Falardeau
Cast: Antoine L'Écuyer, Suzanne Clément, Daniel Brière, Catherine Faucher, Gabriel Maillé
Post-screening discussion with Dr. Myles Blank
This fresh, fast-paced seriocomic gem is set in the summer of 1968 in suburban Montreal, where 10-year-old hellion Léon (newcomer Antoine L'Écuyer) embarks on a spree of destructive and self-destructive behaviour as his parents’ marriage crumbles.
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Oct 1
Wednesday, October 21, 2009 - 7:30pm
Sweden, 2008. Directors: PeÅ Holmquist and Suzanne Khardalian
VANCOUVER PREMIERE! This arresting documentary follows a young psychotherapist in Gaza as he struggles to provide therapy against a backdrop of armed clashes and his own family issues.
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Sep 1
Wednesday, September 16, 2009 - 8:00 PM
** Please note this one-time only special start time of 8:00 PM **
VANCOUVER PREMIERE! FILMMAKER IN ATTENDANCE!
USA 2009. Director: Mary Katzke
Post-screening discussion with Mary Katzke and Dr. Carolyn Steinberg
Co-sponsored by Richmond Hospital’s Department of Psychiatry.
A woman sets off to find her estranged mother, beginning what is a five-year journey towards healing and acceptance in this heartrending documentary.
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Aug 1
Wednesday, August 19, 2009 - 7:30pm
Great Britain 1965. Director: Roman Polanski
Cast: Catherine Deneuve, Ian Hendry, John Fraser, Yvonne Furneaux, Patrick Wymark
Post-screening discussion with Brian Ganter
Presented in partnership with Pacific Cinémathèque's Education Department.
One of modern cinema's most masterful studies of mental breakdown, Catherine Deneuve stars as Carol, an isolated young woman who believes she has been sexually assaulted.
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Jul 1
Wednesday, July 15, 2009 - 7:30pm
France 1976. Director: Roman Polanski
Cast: Roman Polanski, Isabelle Adjani, Shelley Winters, Melvyn Douglas, Jo Ann Fleet
Post-screening discussion with Ramon Kubicek
A macabre tale of insanity, claustrophobia and transposable identity starring the film's masterful director Roman Polanski.
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Jul 1
Our “Frames of Mind” Summer Classics series this year features two of Polanski’s superb psychological horror films, both of which tackle the theme of a descent into madness with the iconoclastic director’s trademark emotional acuity, visual stylishness and blackly comic wit.
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Jun 1
Wednesday, June 17, 2009- 7:30 PM Vancouver Premiere!
USA 2008. Director: Kimberly Reed
Post-Screening discussion with Dr. Anton Scamvougeras
This fascinating study of family dynamics traces the history and disparate trajectories of three brothers who grew up to lead unconventional lives.
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May 1
Wednesday, May 20, 2009 - 7:30 PM
Belgium/Netherlands 2007. Director: Nic Balthazar Cast: Greg Timmermans, Laura Verlinden, Marijke Pinoy, Pol Goossen, Titus De Voogdt, Maarten Claeyssens
Post-screening discussion with Dr. Vikram Dua and Ms Teresa Triggiano (Harris)
Co-sponsored by ACT - Autism Community Training Society and the Kelty Resource Centre.
Virtual reality, live-action vérité style and docudrama combine in this teen angst story of a young boy with Asperger’s Syndrome.
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Apr 1
VANCOUVER PREMIERE | When filmmaker Taliya Finkel was young, she never knew for sure whether her Uncle Sterik was an impostor or a true member of the family. Her father claimed his real brother had been murdered in a Ukrainian prison — and that the KGB had stolen his identity and sent a substitute to Israel.
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Mar 1
Wednesday, March 18, 2009 - 7:30pm
Great Britain 2008. Director: Leo Regan
With: Ruth Wilson, Rufus May
Post-screening discussion with Dr. Sean Flynn
VANCOUVER PREMIERE! │ Offering a disturbing and thought-provoking look at how society deals with mental illness, The Doctor Who Hears Voices uses a mix of documentary and drama to tell the true story of Ruth, a young doctor-in-training suspended from her job after telling her employers she has been feeling depressed and suicidal.
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Feb 1
Wednesday, February 18, 2009 - 7:30 PM
USA 2007. Director: Bill Rose
Post-screening discussion with Judy Graves and Bill Rose
A haunting, elegiac documentary to thwarted promise, This Dust of Words traces the life story of Elizabeth Wiltsee from a young writer of uncompromising talent to a lonely death at the age of 50, homeless and apparently beset by paranoid schizophrenia. With an IQ of 200, Elizabeth taught herself to read at the age of four and was translating classical Greek by the time she was ten.
'Bag for a Bag' Winter Clothing Drive - Feb 18 7:00pm
Receive a free bag of popcorn when you donate a bag of clothing.
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Expressionistic, thought-provoking documentary addresses the use of electroconvulsive therapy (ECT) — often referred to as "electroshock" — in psychiatry.
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