DIAGNONSENSE

d. Ane-Martha Tamnes Hansgård (Norway, 2024) 1h 12m

For over 15 years, director Ane-Martha Tamnes Hansgård was labelled with several serious psychiatric diagnoses. Her perpetual treatment process left her struggling to distinguish between her own identity and the one explained by her various conditions.

In an effort to find herself, she began documenting her life. The result is a unique cinematic universe based on her experiences sculpting a narrative from an extensive collection of private archival footage.

The screening will be preceded by Marie Trestrail’s short film We Can Still Hear You, a creative short documentary that follows the filmmaker on a journey to interrogate her experiences with OCD in a new and intimate way.

SMHAF 2025: Comfort & Disturb

Our theme, Comfort & Disturb, references the famous Cesar A Cruz quote that “art should comfort the disturbed and disturb the comfortable”. It is a simple expression of the power of art both to challenge and to console, often having a transformative effect on people and societies. The theme was collectively chosen by SMHAF’s team of regional coordinators, along with the arts team from the Mental Health Foundation. Across Scotland, hundreds of programme events have been developed in response to this powerful theme.