Movies: Depression

Holger Diekmann was a singer, bass player, and drummer in multiple local bands throughout his short life. Filmmaker Jonas Helmerichs sets out to learn what kind of person his late uncle was. Intimate family portrait and exploration of grief, depressi...

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....

Confronted with trauma, women contain, compartmentalize, distract, and ultimately carry on— lessons learned from a society of partially blind eyes. Shannon is a mother enraptured with invisible pain. She endures in chaotic calm, cracking from the ins...

A town that looks down on outsiders....

Ahmed feels depressed and thinks about suicide. He treats his suicide as if it were like his last dance. Life haunts Ahmed's suicide attempt in an absurd and fatalistic way....

A depressed man contemplates the imminent end of the world....

No Measure of Health profiles Kyle Magee, an anti-advertising activist from Melbourne, Australia, who for the past 10 years has been going out into public spaces and covering over for-profit advertising in various ways. The film is a snapshot of his ...

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The monotony of college life traps Murphey into disillusionment and apathy. She can't feel anything and can't figure out why until a phone call with her mother reminds her that there is life beyond school and that happiness is possible even when it h...

A young man is isolated in his room due to a Covid-19 exposure....

Jae-in ("JANE"), a counselor for an anti-suicide hotline, is smitten with Jon-young, a man she befriended on Facebook. But there are parallels between him and a clinically depressed man who calls her hotline....

A depressed woman receives an unexpected letter....

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...

Othello, a melancholic family man, seeks out a seraphic myth known as The Guide for enlightenment and is unknowingly taken on an esoteric tour of confrontation....

Some time ago Chrissi was the victim of a brutal rape. Since then, she has been vegetating at home and no one, neither friends nor doctors, can find access to her and her feelings. She spends her days apathetically and even her brother, who has come ...

Guarded and aloof cancer survivor is trying to return to the normal life and forget the horrors of the defeated disease that are still haunting her. She finds a new job but it seems that she has nothing in common with other people. Socially withdrawi...

19-year-old college student suffering from mental health issues finds solace in music, but when the guitar that he order broken, he must discover what happened to himself....

Sometimes you need a reminder that your life matters....

"Statusbericht" is a film about the lives of different people who have to deal with their mental problems....

A found footage film about suicidal ideation. Text written by Hannelore Commers....