The Scottish Mental Health Arts Festival is pleased to announce its Official Selection films for 2017. The titles listed below will screen at Glasgow’s Centre for Contemporary Arts (CCA) between 12th and 15th of October.
All of the work being shown has emerged from our annual International Film Competition, which has evolved into a key source of cinematic material for the festival. Richard Warden, film lead for the Mental Health Foundation, said: “What emerges across the programme is a striking sense of confidence, both in the storytelling itself and in the belief that these stories are worth telling. The implication is that these films must exist, and deserve to be seen and experienced by a wide audience. We are honoured that our official selection screenings provide a platform for such vital creativity addressing mental health.”
Tickets can be booked directly via the links found under each film. An overview of the CCA film programme with more details can also be found on the booking site Eventbrite. Most screening events are free.
A Features Pass allowing access to all eight feature-length titles in the programme at the CCA can be purchased here. Additional offerings include the panel discussion Six Feet Over: Death & Documentary, a Community Filmmaking Presentation and a Men’s Mental Health Workshop as part of an entire day devoted to the topic.
The winning films from the competition will be announced at the festival’s programme launch on Thursday 14th September and honoured at the International Film Awards on the evening of Thursday 12th October. Tickets for this event, which sees the Grand Jury Prize revealed and is followed by a drinks reception, can be booked here.
32 PILLS: MY SISTER’S SUICIDE
Hope Litoff | USA | 2017 | 82m | Documentary
ADAM, WHERE ARE YOU?
Gordon Collins | Scotland | 2016 | 13m | Drama
ADAPTATION
Bartosz Kruhlik | Poland | 2016 | 25m | Drama
AFTERGLOW
Akira Kamiki | Brazil | 2017 | 12m | Drama
Book Here: Men, Interrupted II
ALEXITHYMIA
Duncan Cowles | Scotland | 2017 | 10m | Documentary
ALWAYS SOMETIMES NEVER
Helena Ohman | Scotland | 2017 | 8m | Drama
APNEA
Alexis Chartrand | Canada | 2016 | 20m | Drama
Book Here: International Shorts
THE BALLAD OF POLLY AND NELLY
Dundee Futures Project | Scotland | 2017 | 3m | Animation
BARRIER
Paul Cunningham | Scotland | 2017 | 2m | Documentary
BECOMING CARY GRANT
Mark Kidel | France | 2017 | 86m | Documentary
BEING GREENE
Jeff Newman | Canada | 2016 | 78m | Documentary
BETWEEN SAND AND TIDES
Rui Fan Wang | England | 2017 | 4m | Animation
Book Here: International Shorts
BLACK DOG
Jasper Valentine | England | 2017 | 9m | Documentary
BLUE
Hiba Nabulsi | Jordan | 2016 | 6m | Documentary
Book Here: International Shorts
CLOUD NINE
Anne-Marieke Graafmans | Netherlands | 2016 | 53m | Documentary
CONTROL
Mary Johnston | Scotland | 2017 | 2m | Documentary
COPING
Edem Dotse | Ghana | 2016 | 15m | Drama
Book Here: Men, Interrupted II
CULT PARTY: “KISS (TWO)”
Patrick Taylor | England | 2017 | 5m | Music Video
DONKEYOTE
Chico Pereira | Germany, Spain, UK | 2017 | 85m | Documentary
EYES CLOSED
Tero Peltoniemi | Finland | 2017 | 21m | Documentary
FOG
Jacinthe Dessureault | Canada | 2016 | 18m | Drama
Book Here: Men, Interrupted II
GAMBLING WITH MINDS
Genevieve Clay-Smith | Australia | 2017 | 10m | Experimental
GRATUS
Sarah Johnson | Australia | 2016 | 7m | Experimental
HIDDEN
Sharon Graham | Scotland | 2017 | 2m | Documentary
HOWLS
Catriona MacInnes | England, Scotland | 2017 | 16m | Drama
HUM
Nathan Fagan | Ireland | 2017 | 19m | Documentary
I CAME FROM THE UNKNOWN TO SING
Roxana Vilk | Scotland | 2016 | 9m | Documentary
IN PLACE
Genevieve Bicknell | Scotland | 2017 | 12m | Documentary
INSTRUMENT OF CHANGE: STREET PIANO
Maureen Ni Fiann | England | 2017 | 42m | Documentary
LIGHT SIGHT
Seyed M. Tabatabaei | Iran | 2017 | 8m | Animation
Book Here: International Shorts
LIKE CRAZY
Paolo Virzi | Italy | 2016 | 116m | Drama
A LITTLE GREY
Simon Hewitt | England | 2016 | 5m | Animation
Book Here: Men, Interrupted II
MY HOME IS MY HAVEN
Brendan Coote | England | 2017 | 4m | Drama
MY MOMMY
FALCK | Norway | 2014 | 15m | Experimental
Book Here: International Shorts
MY MOTHER, NATURE
Awi Rabelista | England | 2017 | 25m | Documentary
Book Here: Men, Interrupted II
MY MUM’S GOT A DODGY BRAIN
Emma Lazenby | England | 2016 | 6m | Animation
NO PLACE FOR A REBEL
Ariadne Asimakopoulos, Maartje Wegdam | Netherlands | 2017 | 76m | Documentary
NORTHERN LIGHTS
Nicholas Connor | England | 2016 | 54m | Drama
NOT REQUIRED BACK
Peter Marsden | Scotland | 2016 | 6m | Drama
THE OTHER HALF
Joey Klein | Canada | 2016 | 103m | Drama
OVERLOVE
Lucas Helth | Denmark | 2017 | 22m | Drama
Book Here: International Shorts
PANIC ATTACK!
Eileen O’Meara | USA | 2016 | 3m | Animation
Book Here: International Shorts
A SIMPLE FILMBUFF
Sean Scullion | Scotland | 2016 | 5m | Documentary
SPIKE
Ian Tierney | England | 2016 | 10m | Documentary
SUMMER 1993
Carla Simón | Spain | 2017 | 96m | Drama
VIVIAN, VIVIAN
Ingrid Kamerling | Netherlands | 2016 | 54m | Documentary
WATERFALL
Tom Lock Griffiths | England | 2016 | 19m | Experimental
Book Here: with Vivian, Vivian
THE WAVES
Oscar Lewis| England | 2017 | 5m | Animation
Y
Gina Wenzel | Germany | 2017 | 24m | Drama
Book Here: International Shorts
The Scottish Mental Health Arts Festival has a new look for 2017. Find out more here.