film

Trust Me?!

BFI Doc Society: Made of Truth

Director

Melanie Cura Daball

Producer

Chloe Abrahams

Producer

Souvid Datta

 

Production support

 

InTrust Me?!, a genre-bending short documentary,a young woman uses humour and compassion to share her moving and deeply personal story of coming to terms with her mental health condition. When she starts exhibiting atypical and extreme behaviour, her loved ones trick her into hospitalisation against her will. She is diagnosed with bipolar disorder which starts her challenging journey of self-acceptance, confronting internalised and societal stigma and learning to trust herself and others again.

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