Invisible Despair

2016, 60 minutes

The film offers viewers an intimately dark look into the lives of students gravely affected by mental health disorders, focusing on Toronto University.

The film follows several students from The University of Toronto facing mental difficulties. It explores the details of their severe and desperate mental diagnoses and highlights some of the causes of their troubles while investigating a number of possible solutions for them and for any other student facing a seemingly impossible phase in their life. Thoroughly and personally researched by student Emmanuela Alimlim who has had similar experiences to those described, the film also features highly personal interactions with some of the most important representatives of the said University.