As the film opens, a ninety-year-old Louis van Gasteren—a documentary filmmaker and artist famed in the Netherlands—is seated in a video editing suite, watching scenes of himself in the 1960s, a time when “anything was possible.” He reflects on how much he has changed, and that he is that same person and yet is not.
The documentary begins with the history of pandemics. Following this Dr. Tom Jefferson an (epidemiologist) describes how pandemics occur. After this is describe and compared with other pandemics alerts like the hong kong flu and the 1976 swine flu outbreak. The documentary follows how the political interest, pharmaceutical industry and the WHO benefit from peoples fears.
“Shadows and Illuminations” paints a portrait of Nyoman Kereta, a rural Balinese man in his late sixties who, by psychiatric standards, suffers from a psychotic-like illness. He experiences auditory and visual hallucinations that are a source of great distress, prevent him from tilling his rice fields, and isolate him from his family and fellow villagers. Through the lens of local Balinese standards, he is seen as haunted by spirit visitations that villagers interpret within the frame of their culture and religion.
After active service in Northern Ireland, the Falklands, Iraq and Afghanistan four veterans openly discuss their experiences of conflict and the psychological effects of war on their lives beyond the battlefield and how they live life after their wars and once they return home. The film uses a mixture of talking head testimony, archive and highly stylised dramatic sequences.
Le Mur est un documentaire réalisé en 2011 par Sophie Robert et produit par la société Océan Invisible Productions, en partenariat avec Autistes sans frontières, une association qui milite en faveur d’une prise en charge comportementale éducative des personnes autistes et contre la prise en charge psychanalytique.
In 2004, Alice Whinnett was diagnosed with dementia. Over the following decade her condition naturally worsened, and everything in her world changed, all apart from how her "favourite grandson" behaved with her. In this short documentary, grandson Thomas McNaught gives a brief look at the relationship between his 84-year-old grandmother and himself, showing a lighter side to the disease that breaks so many families apart.
When VanBallenberghe turned thirty-six, he realized that he had been addicted to gambling for a third of his life. He decided to end the problem once and for all. His approach to recovery was two-fold: enter into psychotherapy, and make a documentary about the experience. Lapse is a personal documentary that portrays the fractured state of mind of a person in the grip of a gambling addiction. All of the dialogue in Lapse is taken from psychotherapy sessions that the director recorded.
Dans ce film en noir et blanc, Marie-Josée Saint-Pierre illustre sa première grossesse et la naissance difficile de son premier enfant. Elle y détaille les conditions dans lesquelles sa fille est née, notamment soins qu'elle et sa fille ont reçu à l'hôpital, l'attitude du personnel et les suites du dépôt de sa plainte contre l'hôpital où elle a accouché.
D'anciens ouvriers et ouvrières d'Amisol, usine de filage et de tissage d'amiante, touchés par de l'asbestose retracent leurs combats pour obtenir dommages et faire interdire l'usage de ces fibres. Le tableau des maladies professionnelles inclut pourtant l'amiante depuis 1945.
Atteint de maladies chroniques les intervenants, dont Thierry Casasnovas, s'interrogent sur la société, leur rapport à la nature, leur relationnel dans une analyse personnelle et nous font part de l'auto-régénération constatée. Ils changent leur mode vie, type et façon de se nourrir et recourent à des pratiques comme le jeûne, la méditation, le yoga, le tai-chi-chuan ou le qi gong.