Movies: Depression

This PBS documentary explores depression, a debilitating disease that affects millions of Americans. Touching the lives of people from diverse backgrounds, depression still carries a stigma that causes some sufferers to go without treatment. Real peo...

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Loner follows the mundane yet intimate day-to-day existence of an introverted individual whose life unfolds in quiet, unremarkable routines. Each task throughout the day, no matter how small, becomes an exploration of isolation....

A film about using nature as a way to deal, cope and escape depression, a sense of melancholy and loss clouds over the film....

Ed, Who was once beloved by his hometown as Mumbles the Clown, is now a party clown who battles depression and addiction. His last shred of light in his life Trixie has struggles of her own. Being pushed from all sides who and what will stop this end...

A woman camps instead of watching the 2022 Oscars and decides to bear her soul while doing tasks....

Filmmaker Tobias Hermansen, known for Dreamscape and Mentally Unavailable, has battled depression for years, facing moments of darkness that shaped his perspective on life. Through his struggles, he discovered the power of storytelling as both an esc...

A group of authentic voicemail messages to Alex over the past 5 years from various friends and family members. It is a poetic lattice weaved with mesmeric audiovisuals, presenting the isolating effects of an ever growing digital world....

A look at past diary entries reveals a teenage girl's struggles with body image and depression...

A young woman on the brink of collapse receives a mysterious key that leads her into an alternate reality both very similar to and very different from her own....

On their seventeenth birthday, a young teen stands at the threshold of time, grappling with the bittersweet realization that their childhood and the world they once knew are slipping away....

The day-to-day life of a young man struggling from depression, haunted by the unending rainstorm pounding against his house....

In a country ravaged by generational trauma, a psychiatrist trains grandmothers to treat depression within their communities....

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A man is invited to his friend's house party....

Fleeting moments is a 3 minute short film made by the solely by the director to show the effect of grief and depression on a person's perception of time. As the viewer we are experiencing time in Stella's time isolated to herself and her room, while ...

Isolated during a pandemic, a man is forced to confront his mental health....

A teenage boy's journey through coping with the loss of his best friend....

Lost in the blur of becoming, a soul learns that what fades is not always gone, but merely waiting to be seen anew....

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