film

Trust Me?!

2022

In Production

BFI Doc Society: Made of Truth

Director

Melanie Cura Daball

Producer

Chloe Abrahams

Producer

Souvid Datta

 

Production support

 

Film Details

Format: Short film

 

Doc Society Involvement

Docsoc helped with Production

 

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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Subjects

Mental Health