A Monthly Mental Health Film Series
VANCOUVER PREMIERE! A family grapples with the challenges of autism in this new documentary. Post-screening discussion with Dr. Suzanne Lewis. Co-sponsored by Pacific Autism Family Network.
Wednesday, September 20, 2017 – 7:30pm
Canada/Mexico 2014. Dir: Karina Garcia Casanova. 78 min. Blu-ray Disc VANCOUVER PREMIERE! A singularly heartbreaking and riveting account of living with bipolar disorder as a family disease.
Wednesday, August 16, 2017 – 7:30pm
VANCOUVER PREMIERE | A propulsive documentary account of a sexually-abused hockey player escaping from darkness. Post-screening discussion with Don Wright. Co-sponsored by the BC Society for Male Survivors of Sexual Abuse. Co-presented by the Rendezvous With Madness Film Festival
Wednesday, June 21, 2017 – 7:30pm
VANCOUVER PREMIERE | This documentary follows three fathers in a behavioural change program who have perpetrated family violence. Post-screening discussion with Dr. John Oliffe. Co-sponsored by UBC’s Men’s Health Research
Wednesday, May 17, 2017 – 7:30pm
Hong Kong 2016. Dir: Wong Chun. 101 min. DCP
VANCOUVER PREMIERE | Wong Chun’s gritty drama portrays the relationship between a mentally-ill former stockbroker and his father. Post-screening discussion with Dr. Erin Michalak. Co-sponsored by the Collaborative RESearch Team to study psychosocial issues in Bipolar Disorder (CREST.BD)
Wednesday, April 12, 2017 – 7:30pm
USA 2016. Dir: Alex Lehmann. 82 min. Blu-ray Disc
VANCOUVER PREMIERE | Sketch troupe Asperger’s Are Us write and rehearse new material in this funny, quietly affecting documentary.
Post-screening discussion with and stand-up performances by David Granirer, comic, counselor, author, and founder of Stand Up For Mental Health (who himself suffers from depression), and Jari Wilkman and Paul Decarie, two graduates of the SUFMH program.
Co-sponsored by Stand Up For Mental Health, a non-profit that teaches stand-up comedy to people with mental health issues, giving them a powerful voice and helping to reduce stigma.
Wednesday, March 15, 2017 – 7:30pm
Sweden 2015. Dir: Hanna Sköld. 85 min. DCP
VANCOUVER PREMIERE | Told in both live action and stop-motion puppet animation, this powerful and deeply disturbing film tells a story of intergenerational abuse. Post-screening discussion with Shannon Guiboche. Co-sponsored by the Counselling, Trauma and Victim Services Programs at Family Services of Greater Vancouver
Wednesday, January 18, 2017 – 7:30pm
Great Britain 2015. Dir: Amy Hardie. 82 min. DCP
Wednesday, February 15, 2017 – 7:30pm
USA 2015. Dir: Garrett Zevgetis. 91 min. DCP
VANCOUVER PREMIERE | This touching documentary traces the journey of self-discovery for a twenty-year-old woman who is legally blind and on the autism spectrum. Post-screening discussion with Shawn Marsolais.
VANCOUVER PREMIERE! An authentic and intimate documentary portrait of a Sudanese refugee family living in rural Australia. Post-screening discussion with Kirby Huminuik and Frank Cohn. Co-sponsored by the University of British Columbia and the Vancouver Immigration Partnership, City of Vancouver.
Told with humour and humanism, this documentary profiles a hospice outside of Glasgow that encourages singing as a coping mechanism. Post-screening discussion with Dr. Romayne Gallagher,