The 2nd edition of Unspoken Mental Health Film Festival continues Tongues on Fire’s commitment to using cinema as a catalyst for difficult, necessary and compassionate conversations around mental health and emotional wellbeing.
Produced by Tongues on Fire CIO — the charity behind the UK Asian Film Festival — Unspoken brings together films, artists, mental health advocates and audiences to explore the emotional realities often left unspoken across cultures and communities.
Through screenings, Q&As and public dialogue, the festival explores themes including trauma, grief, masculinity, care, anxiety, identity, displacement, neurodiversity, memory, loneliness and healing.
We are particularly interested in films that create empathy, challenge stigma and open meaningful conversations around emotional wellbeing — especially within communities where these subjects remain difficult to discuss openly.
We welcome bold, compassionate and artistically ambitious work from filmmakers around the world, including:
* narrative features
* documentaries
* short films
* animation
* experimental and hybrid works
Unspoken is a space for cinema that moves beyond awareness and towards connection, reflection and conversation.
Selected films will be eligible for consideration at the Unspoken Mental Health Film Festival Awards.
Award categories may include:
* Best Feature Film
* Best Documentary
* Best Short Film
* Jury Prize
* Audience Choice Award
* Emerging Voice Award
* Best Director
* Best Performance
* Best Cinematography
* Mental Health Impact Award
Additional awards and special mentions may be announced by the Festival Jury.
Selected filmmakers may also be invited to participate in:
* post-screening Q&As
* panel discussions
* industry conversations
* press and audience engagement events
Awards recognise films that demonstrate artistic excellence, emotional honesty, originality and meaningful engagement with themes connected to mental health, identity, wellbeing and human connection.
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Som Chakraborty
April 2017
