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Blue Monday

CRAZY OR WISE?
Is there wisdom in madness?

"If the delusion is not delusion
in the fascinating documentary BLUE MONDAY"
- NRC (Dutch newspaper) -

The documentary BLUE MONDAY explores what can be learned from people who have turned their mental health crises into positive transformative experiences. Joyce, Jerry and Chester are three young people that struggle with psychosis. All three are searching in their own way for the truths behind their psychotic experiences. Jerry and Joyce refuse to believe that their psychoses are nothing but a disease. Chester experiences these episodes as a living nightmare. Is it possible to find sense in their madness? Should psychotic episodes be eliminated with medication or should you explore them too? Is there meaning in their madness? If it is up to the three young characters in Blue Monday, the view on sensitivity for psychoses should change.

  • Ingrid Kamerling
    Director
  • Nienke Korthof
    Producer
  • Willem Baptist
    Producer
  • Project Type:
    Documentary
  • Genres:
    psychosis, psychology, mental health, young peope, youth, spirtual, psychiatric
  • Runtime:
    54 minutes
  • Completion Date:
    November 1, 2021
  • Country of Origin:
    Netherlands
  • Country of Filming:
    Netherlands
  • Language:
    Dutch
  • Shooting Format:
    Digital
  • Aspect Ratio:
    16:9
  • Film Color:
    Color
  • First-time Filmmaker:
    No
  • Student Project:
    No
  • Dutch Film Festival, nomination Golden Calf
    Utrecht
    Netherlands
    October 1, 2021
    World
    nomination Gold Calf Competition short documentary
  • Impact campagne Blue Monday: Release in Dutch cinema's and organisations

    Netherlands
    Screening in Dutch cinema's and (health) organisations as a part of an impact campagne
    http://bluemonday-film.com/#events
  • World Film Carnival - Singapore, best documentary

    August 16, 2022
    Award best documentary
  • Buddha Film Festival, best documentary

    August 10, 2022
    Award best documentary
  • Athvikvaruni International Film Festival, best documentary

    India
    August 15, 2022
    Award best documentary
  • TRILOKA INTERNATIONAL FILMFARE AWARDS, best documentary

    India
    August 25, 2022
    Award best documentary
  • 1st Monthly FIlm Festival, best medium length documentary
    Belgrade
    Serbia
    August 21, 2022
    Award best medium length documentary
Director Biography - Ingrid Kamerling

Ingrid Kamerling (1981) is an acclaimed Dutch documentary filmmaker and psychologist, renowned for her deeply moving and poetic works such as VIVIAN VIVIAN. Her debut film, Sounds for Mazin (EO), was named Youth Documentary of the Year at the International Documentary Film Festival Amsterdam (IDFA) in 2012, touring more than 60 international festivals and winning multiple awards. VIVIAN VIVIAN (BNNVARA), a poignant exploration of her sister’s suicide, screened in Dutch cinemas and garnered six awards at international film festivals.
Ingrid continued to make a profound impact with films like Granny and Chris & the Red Car (BNNVARA, 2020), Restless Souls (VPRO, 2020), Echo (2021), and Blue Monday (2021), which were showcased in the prestigious Golden Calf competition at the Netherlands Film Festival. Blue Monday, a documentary shedding light on young people with psychosis, attracted widespread international recognition, screening at over 40 film festivals and winning 19 international awards.
In 2022, Ingrid launched the impact project TBS on Tour, bringing her film Echo to cinemas and prisons alongside a theatrical performance. Her latest film, They and Them (VPRO, 2023, 76 min), premiered at IDFA 2023 and was nominated for the IDFA 2024 Best Dutch Film Award, the MIPCOM Cannes Diversify Award, the Japan Prize, and Best Documentary at Biografilm, Festival des Libertés in Brussels, and Ji.hlava International Documentary Film Festival in the Czech Republic. The film was also the Dutch submission for the Emmy Awards and won the Best Editing Award at Angeles DOC. They and Them is currently being broadcast on NHK in Japan.

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