Anxious Generation (2019)

Le clown est triste

This documentary attempts to understand why so many comedians experience mental health issues, a condition that stands in stark contrast to their profession. Anxiety, depression, suicidal thoughts: these are the heavy subjects they dare to tackle on stage. Cathy Gauthier, Coco Belliveau, Jean-François Mercier, Mario Jean, Maude Landry, Preach and Simon Gouache testify.

In the Head of an Anxious

Anxiety is the most common mental health problem in North America. Panic attacks, discomfort, ruminations, isolation: anxiety prevents those who suffer from it from living their lives to the full and plunges them into sometimes insurmountable distress. Is there more anxiety than ever before? How do we get out of this?

Mental as Everything

Damon Smith has estimated that he has spent around 50,000 hours of his life, so far, participating in absurd ritualistic behaviours associated with his obsessive compulsive disorder (OCD). With a diagnosis of both, OCD and Bipolar Disorder, and with the help of his anxious friend, Adam Coad, these Australian singer-songwriters share, through original music, preposterous humour, and outlandish animations, the intricate and debilitating nature of what it is like to live and talk about mental illness in a world where it’s ok to talk about a broken arm, but not ok to talk about a broken mind.

I'm Breathing All the Time

In this autobiographical documentary, Rosa explores her anxiety, derealisation, and a mother-daughter bond shaped by shared trauma.

Another Happy Day

A wedding at her parents' Annapolis estate hurls high-strung Lynn into the center of touchy family dynamics.

Significant Other

Ruth and Harry decide to take a romantic backpacking trip through the Pacific Northwest, but amongst the beautiful scenery, Ruth makes an unexpected discovery that sets her off on a strange, frightening new path. The couple aren't alone in the woods, and they might not be the same when they come out...if they come out.

Mutism

Can Apollo speak? An opportunity to make friends arise after receiving his first invite to a party.

Not Without My Shrink

A successful psychoanalyst's life is turned upside down by a very anxious and extremely clingy patient who starts dating his daughter.

Anxiety's Wilma

A short romantic comedy about a young woman and her anxiety.

Pink Skies Ahead

A young woman struggles with an anxiety disorder after dropping out of school.

Beau Is Afraid

Following the sudden death of his mother, a mild-mannered but anxiety-ridden man confronts his darkest fears as he embarks on an epic odyssey back home.

Anxiety Art

A young artist in a dark dorm room takes anxieties out of their brain and into their hands.

PORTRAIT.

A portrait of man dealing with himself on a rainy day. Part realistic, part expressionist.

Steel

Daniel, a successful TV journalist living life in the fast lane, has fallen into a deep depression. His seemingly perfect life suddenly collapses under him when panic attacks force him to deal with himself and his past.

Blue Jasmine

After experiencing a traumatic misfortune, Jasmine French, a wealthy woman from New York, moves to San Francisco to live with her foster sister Ginger and the firm purpose of getting a new life, but she will be haunted by anxiety and memories of the past.

Northern Lights

Emma approaches adulthood, she tries to live an ordinary life and keep up to her late mothers expectations. However her anxiety weighs over her, stopping her from enjoying the last few youthful years.

Nyctophobia

As Liz struggles with nyctophobia (fear of the dark), a form of anxiety disorder that causes sleeping issues, she desperately tries to fall asleep by entering her “inner world” where she can access her happy childhood memories. However, she ultimately becomes trapped in a time loop of sorts in her “lucid dream” world and encounters her nightmare, Dark Figure, who appears in various forms and shapes as a clown. The time loop pushes her deeper into her lucid dream world, forcing her to reach her subconscious world where she meets her worst nightmare, the original form of Dark Figure.

Vortex

A boy takes care of his sick mother while his father works at sea. He suffers from terrible nightmares, haunted by the worst imaginations about his mother and father. One day, he sees a girl dragging a huge rock along the beach. Intrigued, he follows her home and discovers how she managed to escape the worst imaginations.

The Day of the Two Holy Popes

"History is not just what you read in books, history often reveals itself with its extraordinary scope, already in the present. This is the case when on April 27 2014, the canonization of the greatest Popes of the 20th century was celebrated". With these words, the unmistakable voice of Giancarlo Giannini introduces us to an intimate and emotional story of what was, in all respects, a historical event: the Canonization of Pope John XXIII and Pope John Paul II. Monsignor Dario Edoardo Viganò, director of the Vatican Television Center, holds the reins of the narrative which, among historical and exclusive images, leads to a closer understanding of the two Holy Popes and Pope Francis, and to discover places in the Vatican never seen before. Alongside him are the authoritative opinions of Pupi Avati, Aldo Grasso and Gianni Canova and a moving and emotional Dario Fo. A Vatican Television Center and Sky 3D production.

The Epstein Files

The damning files which expose the evil of American billionaire and sex offender Jeffrey Epstein. Tara Brown investigates.

The Gulag Archipelago: The Book That Changed Russian History

The story of Russian writer and Soviet dissident Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn (1918-2008) and his masterpiece, The Gulag Archipelago, published in Paris in 1973, which forever shook the very foundations of communist ideology.

The Road Becomes What You Leave

The Road Becomes What You Leave is a meditative documentary following the band Magnolia Electric Co. as they travel across the prairies of Canada.

Ferrante Fever

Hillary Clinton, Roberto Saviano, Jonathan Franzen and others weigh-in on the Elena Ferrante "craze" and what makes her work - and her mysterious persona - so uniquely captivating.

Tawai: A Voice from the Forest

Explorer Bruce Parry visits nomadic tribes in Borneo and the Amazon in hope to better understand humanity's changing relationship with the world around us.

Les étonnantes vertus de la méditation

For many, meditation is the new yoga and is gaining new popularity worldwide. More and more clinical studies are showing that meditation has a positive influence on our brain and our health. Science has the first answers to the question of the extent to which mental practice is actually effective for pain, depression or anxiety. Could meditation help to cure certain illnesses or prevent them altogether?

Tierra de Patagones: Six Months in Patagonia

The 'Gauchos del Mar' brothers pursue their goal of surfing at the Isla de los Estados. They wander the Patagonia for six months, sharing their experiences with the locals, getting to know their ways. They face hard weather conditions before getting to Ushuaia and later they sail through the Beagle Channel and the Strait of Le Maire on their way to the uninhabited island.

The City at Sunrise

A documentary look into life in Saigon, very soon after April 30, 1975.

Saturday Night

With unprecedented access to the behind the scenes process of the writers, actors and producers, Franco and his crew document what it takes to create one full episode of Saturday Night Live.

Invisible Revolutions

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We Did It on a Song

This film tells the stormy tale of a group of friends from Boulogne-sur-Mer, a French town hit by the financial crisis. A year between dreams and disillusion, imagined by teenagers from a working or middle class background, with songs that regularly add poetry, laughter, and emotion to reality.

Cazuza: Good News

It explores the last two years of Brazilian singer Cazuza's life, from his AIDS diagnosis until his death. Nilo Romero, Cazuza's music producer and the film's director, created a collection of rarely seen and controversial images.

Grandma in Two Dimensions: Memories, Images and Stories of Faith

A young anthropologist reflects on her late grandmother's religious background.

All of Them Witches

All of Them Witches is a one-hour documentary that will explore an alternate and authentic history told from the perspective of today's most well-known, practicing witches, as well as scholars of history and anthropology.

Vampire Agnes and Csipkes Zoltan

Vámpír Ági calles out Csipkés Zoltán for being a sinter.

Skiing Competition for the Skiing Championship of Yugoslavia in Planica Near Rateče

Silent documentary.

Vick

A comprehensive reminisce at each chapter of former NFL quarterback Michael Vick’s saga–the incredible rise, shocking fall and polarizing return.

Los cachos de mi papá

Wilson has written two books with jokes, but has never published them. Now his son proposes to create a fanpage on Facebook to publish them. But Wilson barely knows how to use the computer.

Nom Tèw

Juxtaposed to the hustle and bustle of city life on the diminutive Caribbean island of Dominica, Jerry Maka West works his garden in the island's lush interior, his Zion, growing and preparing his food just as his grandparents once taught him. Jerry is Nom Tèw, Man of the Soil.

Still Processing

A box of stunning family photos awakens grief and lost memories as they are viewed for the first time on camera.

Painting with 14 Personalities

British artist Kim Noble talks about the reality of living with dissociative identity disorder and shows us the artwork created by 14 of her personalities. "I'm Patricia, I don't like being called Kim, but I have got used to it now."