Documentaries for Mental Health Awareness
May is Mental Health Awareness Month. Screen an award‑winning GOOD DOCS documentary to support conversations about mental health and help reduce stigma around your campus or community.
See the full collection here.
THE FRIENDSHIP BENCH - Confronted with a national mental health crisis in 2006, a Zimbabwean psychiatrist began training local grandmothers to treat depression. His visionary initiative - The Friendship Bench - has since expanded to communities all over the world
BEING MICHELLE - A deaf woman with autism who survived incarceration and abuse uses her artwork to depict the trauma and heal from her past
THE S WORD - A suicide attempt survivor is on a mission to find fellow survivors
DEAR ANI - An odyssey of music, art, and mania that depicts the epic mental health journey of Keith Wasserman
INNER WOUND REAL - The stories of three BIPOC folks who self-injure, then find new ways to cope
SMILE4KIME - An experimental film about Black & Latina women's friendships, mental illness and suicide that imagines ways to transcend time, space, and even death to find hope and resilience
