A Monthly Mental Health Film Series
Wednesday, March 20, 2019 – 7:30pm
USA 2018. Dir: Sandra Luckow. 101 min. DCP
VANCOUVER PREMIERE! Sandra Luckow’s powerful new film concerns her brother’s diagnosis of late-onset paranoid schizophrenia. Post-screening discussion with Sandra Luckow and Dr. Randall F. White.
Wednesday, June 18, 2014 – 7:30pm
USA 2013. Dir: Brian Lindstrom. 90 min. Blu-ray Disc
VANCOUVER PREMIERE! This heartbreaking documentary explores the controversial killing of James Chasse, a man suffering from schizophrenia, by three Portland police in 2006.
Wednesday, February 20, 2013 – 7:30 pm
USA 2012. Directors: Rebecca Schaper, Kyle Tekiela
VANCOUVER
PREMIERE! In 1977, Call Richmond, in his early twenties and only a
few months from college graduation, disappeared from the life of his
upper-middle-class Atlanta family. Over the next 20 years, only the
occasional phone call convinced the family that he was still alive. And
then, suddenly, Call reappeared — homeless, unkempt, and plagued by
paranoid schizophrenia. A Sister’s Call, filmed over the next 14 years, is the story of Call and of his younger sister Rebecca’s struggle to “bring him back to life.”
Wednesday, May 16, 2012 – 7:30pm
Canada/Great Britain 2002. Director: David Cronenberg
Cast: Ralph Fiennes, Miranda Richardson, Gabriel Byrne, Lynn Redgrave, John Neville
Post-screening discussion with Dr. Randall F. White.
David Cronenberg’s magnificent, bleak Spider stars Ralph Fiennes in a tour-de-force performance as Dennis Clegg, nicknamed “Spider” during childhood because of a fascination with arachnids. After thirty years in a facility for the mentally ill, he is released to an East End London halfway house, where he receives little care or attention …
VANCOUVER PREMIERE! One of the first films about Alzheimer’s as seen through the eyes of those who suffer from it. Wednesday, May 19, 2010 7:30pm – Vancouver Premiere!
Spain 2009. Director: Ventura Durall
Post-screening discussion with Dr. Roy O’Shaughnessy
Cleverly unravels the case of a 19-year-old paranoid schizophrenic who killed his father.
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.
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.
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.
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.