Shorts 2 Multi-Screening

The Angel and The Devil (Breaking the Silence)

Breaking the Silence is a very emotionally powerful film about mental health taboos and stigma within the UK's South Asian community. This is Sandeep's story. She survived suicide and managed to pull herself out of the darkness.

Directed by Maya Sinharathna

Sri Lanka

Together-Alone

Together-Alone is a series of cinematic portraits of people navigating through mental health challenges, who open up about their experiences along the way. An honest yet light delivery, sets out to create ease for the viewer to relate, reflect and release.

Directed by Dorith Mous

Starring Keren Leiman, Eilika Meckbach, Jackson Mullane, Edwin Bethea

Netherlands

Alberta #3

Visual artist and writer Bradley Necyk approached me (the director) with a script he had developed during his downtime in a conference in Arizona. This script was an auto-ethnographic collection of memories and field notes that reflected on topics his direct experiences with bipolar disorder, parenthood and inter-generational connectedness through the conceptual lens of his own mania. After hearing him read his powerful thoughts out loud, I knew it deserved a kind of visual story telling that would not take away from his authentic voice. Necyk experiences and reflects on madness through both his doctoral research at a psychiatric hospital and his own mania following that research. Directed by Kyle Terrence and performed and written by Necyk, this film weaves larger, longer stories of madness and time.