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Soul Care: Marie In Her Head

director: Zuzana Kirchnerová

original title: Péče o duši - Marie v hlavě

country: Czech Republic

year: 2022

running time: 25 min.

synopsis

She first cut herself when she was 13 and did so countless times after that. What drives young people to self-harm and what can be done to protect them from it? Unique testimonies in a film by Zuzana Kirchnerová, shot for the authorial docuseries Soul Care, describes how people with mental health problems feel and how their diagnoses are seen by experts.

biography

Zuzana Kirchnerová (* 1978) is a graduate of FAMU and the Faculty of Law at Charles University. Her bachelor's degree thesis, Baba, was awarded first prize in the Cinéfondation student section at the 62nd Annual Cannes IFF. In recent years, she has primarily been involved in documentary filmmaking; as a director and screenwriter, she contributed to Czech Television's docuseries Four In It (Čtyři v tom) and Five Brave (Pět statečných). She is currently preparing her live-action feature debut, Caravan.

more about film

director:	Zuzana Kirchnerová
producer:	Alena Müllerová
script:	Zuzana Kirchnerová
photography:	Yvona Teysslerová
editing:	Hedvika Hanzalová
sound:	Michal Janoušek, Petr Provazník, Ivan Horák
executive producer:	Jiří Vlach

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