A Monthly Mental Health Film Series
Wednesday, July 13, 2022 7:00pm
USA 2020 Director Patrick Sammon, Bennett Singer Duration 80min DCP
This provocative documentary highlights a previously underappreciated activist campaign in the struggle to achieve normality for the LGBTQ community. For years, the American Psychiatric Association’s Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (or DSM) listed homosexuality as a mental illness.
Wednesday, June 15, 7:00pm
USA 2016 Director: Bill Hurst 65min DCP
An engrossing look behind the scenes at Headquarters, a 24–7 suicide prevention crisis centre in Lawrence, Kansas, where more than twenty-thousand calls a year are answered by trained volunteers. “We all learn how to talk—we don’t learn how to listen,” says one of the interview subjects in this affecting documentary, as we follow 11 young trainees working their way through a rigorous 11-week training session which incorporates intense role-play scenarios covering just about every imaginable crisis. Co-sponsored by the BC Crisis Centre.
Wednesday, May 18 7:00pm
USA2016. Director Matt Fuller. 75 DCP
Finding and maintaining romantic relationships can be challenging for anyone, but for those with Autism Spectrum Disorder, impairments in social interaction and difficulties with verbal and non-verbal communication can make it next to impossible. Or so you might think before watching Matt Fuller’s hopeful and affecting documentary on four adults with ASD. Post-screening discussion with Dr. Grace Iarocci and Dr. Ira Heilveil (via zoom).
Wednesday, April 27, 2022 7:00pm
Frames of Mind Returns to In-person screenings at The Cinematheque!
Having weathered a lengthy episode of depression, Toronto author Ray Robertson was inspired to write a book that explored two of life’s most central and enduring questions: “What makes human beings happy?” and “What makes life worth living?” Post-screening discussion with Dr. Rene Weideman and Alan Zweig.
Streaming June 10, 2021 (Thursday) – June 16, 2021 (Wednesday)
Vancouver premiere! Researching caregiving solutions for his own ailing mother led Belgian filmmaker Kristof Bilsen to Baan Kamlangchay, a residential facility in northern Thailand providing affordable 24-hour care to Europeans with Alzheimer’s disease. Free Zoom Q&A with Dr. Elisabeth Drance, Dr. Lillian Hung, Peter McKnight, and Dr. MaryLou Harrigan. Co-sponsored by UBC Community Engagement
Streaming February 11 through February 18
USA 2020. Patrick Sammon, Bennett Singer
This provocative documentary highlights a previously underappreciated activist campaign in the struggle to achieve normality for the LGBTQ community. Free Live Q&A February 17 with Co-Director Dr. Richard Pillard, and Dr. Chris Booth and Dr. Albina Veltman. Co-sponsored by Western Canada District Branch, American Psychiatric Association, and UBC Community Engagement.
View the riveting trailer here
Streaming December 8 (Tuesday) through December 14 (Monday)
Netherlands/Great Britain/Belgium/Ireland 2019. Director: Sacha Polak. 105 min
Vancouver Premiere! Dirty God begins in the burn unit of a London Hospital, as Jade (astonishing newcomer Vicky Knight), a young single mom, is released after months of recuperation from the effects of an acid attack by her ex-boyfriend. Returning to the Hackney council estate flat she shares with her mother, Jade is greeted with tears and screams of “monster”’ by her two-year-old daughter. So begins Jade’s journey, as she struggles to reconcile her outward appearance with her desperate desire for things to return to the way they once were. In her dramatic debut, Knight, herself badly burned in a fire at age eight, brings an intensity and flinty stoicism informed by personal experience to the lead role. Virtual access to a film is provided for seven days, at the conclusion of which we present an online seminar featuring conversations with special guests and an audience Q&A via Zoom.
Streaming Oct 29, 2020 through November 4, 2020
USA 2019 Director: Mark Jonathan Harris / Deborah Oppenhemier
112 min. A revealing first-hand look at the foster care system in the United States, as experienced by young people within the system, and by those working tirelessly to support them. Live ZOOM Q&A with Mark Jonathan Harris, Deborah Oppenheimer, Jessica Chandler, Katherine McParland, Bruce Spangler. Co-sponsored by A Way Home Kamloops
Thursday, June 18 – Wednesday June 24, 2020
USA 1965 Stanley Milgram 45 min. Stanley Milgram (1933-1984), an American social psychologist, remains best known for his landmark 1961 “Obedience to Authority” experiment, which exposed the unsettling extent to which ordinary citizens will do as they are told. Live Zoom Q&A with Dr. Jennifer Gibson and Dr. Andrew M. Rivers.
May 14 (Thursday) – May 20 (Wednesday) 2020
Live Q&A May 20 (Wednesday) 7:30 pm – 8:30 pm PDT
USA 2018 Gregory Rocco 92 min. Register to watch the film and receive an invite to a live Zoom Q&A with Stretch Marks director Gregory Rocco and actor John Larkin, who will be joined by Dr. Josie Geller and Ali Eberhardt from the Eating Disorders Program at St. Paul’s Hospital in Vancouver, BC.