Directed by Kazuhiro Soda • Documentary • 2008 • 135 minutes
MENTAL is a documentary that observes the complex world of an outpatient mental health clinic Chorale Okayama in Japan, interwoven with patients, doctors, staff, volunteers, and home-helpers.
"To draw the curtain between normality and what normality calls abnormality is the purpose of this film. But more than that, the curtain is drawn upon a beautiful theater, Yamamoto's office, where beautiful characters slowly enlarge the world with their joyful sadness." —Jury's comment, Busan Int. Film Festival
- Berlinale 2009
- Special Jury Mention, Miami International Film Festival
- Best Documentary, Busan International Film Festival
- Best Documentary, Dubai International Film Festival
- Outstanding Documentary Award, Hong Kong International Film Festival
- Inter-religious Jury Prize, Visions du Réel
Directed by Jonathan Nossiter • Documentary • 2004 • 52 minutes
How would a grape respond under psychoanalysis? Jean-Louis Laplanche, world-renowned psychiatrist and Freud translator, is the owner of the Chateau de Pommard in Burgundy. Yet his peculiarity does not compare with that of the husban...
Directed by Jonathan Nossiter • Documentary • 2004 • 53 minutes
The Antinori and Frescobaldi families have dominated the political and economic life of Tuscany for a thousand years. For the past thirty, they've concentrated all their resources in wine. The tensions and conflicts underlying the t...
Directed by Jonathan Nossiter • Documentary • 2004 • 57 minutes
The Tuscan saga continues: betrayal, redemption, and globalization: Italian-style. The two families fight it out for the hand of America's Mondavi family. But who's the real winner and who's the real loser? And what does it mean for...
