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Hauptinstitut für seelische Gesundheit (2019)

Screenplay/Direction/Editing

"I don't want to use the restroom. I'm afraid they'll use their computers to read information about me from my excrement." Sara is 27 and on a journey with no shoes, no money, no cell phone and no ID. She ends up in a psychiatric ward, where she is confronted not only with the diagnosis of "acute psychosis" but also with rules and measures that she cannot endure. In a scenic part, her experience of the clinic, based on the testimony of a real patient, is shown. In improvised scenes and documentary conversations, the psychiatric nurses also have their say.

A hybrid film about the subject of forced fixation in psychiatry.

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Nomination First Steps Award 2019

Honored with the Starter Film Award

of the City of Munich 2019

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