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Beyond the Blues: Child and Youth Depression

Through the personal stories of three young people, this compelling documentary explores the issues and challenges of childhood and youth depression.

National Film Board of Canada | 2004 | 56 minutes

The Boxers of Brule

This is the story of the 23 years old, Shaionna Grass Rope, who lost her best friend Cheryl Ziegler to suicide. Cheryl—her cousin by blood and sister by culture—was an aspiring boxer who battled depression and addiction.

Collective Eye Films | 2019 | 38 minutes

Confessions of a Social Bully

Twenty-year-old Natasha Bravely reflects on her past as a middle school bully

GOOD DOCS | 2017 | 15 minutes

Focus

The extra challenges teenagers with learning disabilities face.

The Fanlight Collection | 2003 | 7 minutes

How to Save a Dead Friend

Together, two young lovers create an unbreakable bond within a destructive world.

Lightdox | 2023 | 103 minutes

Like Any Other Kid

Follows the intimate relationships between incarcerated youth and staff who use love and structure to guide and teach youth offenders how to take responsibility for themselves.

Bullfrog Films | 2020 | 89 minutes

Little Wound's Warriors

As Pine Ridge Indian Reservation faces the lasting effects of inter-generational trauma as well as a recent teen suicide epidemic, the voices of Little Wound High School students rise up in hope

GOOD DOCS | 2016 | 56 minutes

The Other Side of Blue

Through testimonies with four engaging young people, as well as commentary from two psychiatrists and a social worker who work with teens, the film explores the nature, causes, symptoms, and consequences of clinical depression, what makes teenage depression different.

The Fanlight Collection | 2000 | 31 minutes

Sankara's Orphans

In 1986, 600 orphans and rural children from Burkina-Faso were sent to Cuba with the mission of learning a trade so they could come back and develop their country, which was undergoing a Revolution. But after the assassination in 1987 of the country's president and the end of the Cold War, how were they to return?

Icarus Films | 2022 | 84 minutes

Unkept Secrets

Revealing secrets in the close-knit Hassidic community takes more power than anyone can imagine.

First Hand Films | 2018 | 70 minutes