Chasing The Lion

“I want to be a tiger. I am an atheist from Iraq and I am seeking asylum. About my hallucinations… It’s difficult. Horrible...

Departing from peripheral details of some paintings of the Bilbao Fine Arts Museum, a female narrator unravels several stories related to the...

When Harvard PhD student Jennifer Brea is struck down at 28 by a fever that leaves her bedridden, doctors tell her it’s "all in her head."...

Six California kids test their brains and talents against students in Odyssey of the Mind, a problem-solving competition requiring mechanical,...

Filmmaker JJ Martin explores Gia Carangi's life through rare home movies and photos, previously unseen interviews with Gia, and contemporary...

Damon Smith has estimated that he has spent around 50,000 hours of his life, so far, participating in absurd ritualistic behaviours associated with...

Robert Mitchum narrates an anti drug propaganda film.

A short film portrays the events of a depressed man's day, culminating, presumably, in his suicide, though the ending is ambiguous. Afterwards, a...

Alex Anna’s body is a canvas: her scars come to life to tell a new story of self-harming.

For the first time in history, mental illness and suicide have become one of the greatest threats to school-aged children. Many parents still view...

Using local media footage from the London Borough of Southwark spanning the past 20 years, this documentary discusses complex social issues including...

Ibogaine is a plant extract that stops drug addiction. In this documentary, a 34-year-old heroin addict undergoes ibogaine therapy with Dr Martin...

The 60s equivalent of Reefer Madness and all those other 30s drug exploitation flicks. Apparently, dropping acid leads to stripteases, cat fights,...

An inspiring documentary about overcoming homelessness and addiction in the City of Los Angeles.

Joe wants to be a rapper. Max wants to be a filmmaker. They go to a secluded house in rural Virginia to document the production of Joe's demo CD. But...

This documentary follows the lives of several extraordinary people who have been diagnosed with social anxiety disorder. Through personal interviews,...

Life has not been kind to Giacobbe Fragomeni. He spent his childhood in the bleak outskirts of Milan, in a cruel environment. An alcoholic father who...

Nobody captured the atmosphere of 1990s Berlin better than German photographer Daniel Josefsohn, who died in 2016 at the age of 54, leaving his mark...

In the world of professional sports, no American athlete ever came back from a mental health disorder....until Ron Artest, now known to the world as...