Ignore Your True Feelings at Your Own Peril

Partner: Catalyst Institute for Creative Arts

Director: Miranda Siegel
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What happens when the body stages a revolt against the mind's repression? Shot on an iPhone during a harrowing bipolar episode, this raw and unflinching video diary documents one woman's descent into, and gradual emergence from, a psychiatric crisis.

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Duration: 16min.

Country: Germany

Language: English

Year: 2024

Genre: Documentary, Experimental

Topic: Biography, Black Humor, Body, Crisis, Disability, Documentary, Drugs, Every Day Life, Experimental, Fear, Happiness, Health, Humor, Identity, Journey, Loneliness, Mental Health, Mobile Phones, Otherness, Portrait, Psychosis, Sick, Spirituality, Struggle, Suicide, Survival, TragiComedy, Trauma, Underground, Women

Cast & Crew

Director: Miranda Siegel

Production company: Catalyst Institute

Writer: Miranda Siegel

Cinematographer: Miranda Siegel, Megan Pini, Charles H. Meyer

Editor: Miranda Siegel

Music: Kerem Esemen

Actors: Miranda Siegel

Festivals & Awards

2024

Hamburg Short Film Festival Special Jury Mention

Filmschool Fest Munich Moderators' Special Prize

Short Film Festival Cologne (KFFK) 2nd Jury Prize

German Short Film Award Shortlisted, Best Documentary <30 minutes

Filmfestival Max-Ophüls-Preis

Slamdance Film Festival

Grenzland Filmtage Selb 3rd Audience Award, Documentary

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