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Documentary / 2023 / 18'

Trust Me

BFI Doc Society-supported documentary

A Just Be Nice Studios production.

A young woman recounts the experience of being hospitalised against her will and diagnosed with bipolar disorder. Animation, humour and her own account follow the difficult process of learning to trust herself and other people again.

From the film.

Frames & making

Trust Me · Film still 1

Trust Me - Nicole Schretlen Montes as Anne in a warmly lit shop — Trust Me · Film still 2

Trust Me - An animated figure repeated across a maze of coral-coloured stairs — Trust Me · Film still 3

Trust Me - Anne looks through wired glass in a softly lit close-up — Trust Me · Film still 4

Trust Me - Anne sits curled on a bed in a sunlit hospital room — Trust Me · Film still 5

The people behind the work

Credits.

Director: Melanie Cura Daball
Writers: Melanie Cura Daball Anne Chataigné
Producers: Souvid “JIJO” Datta Chloe Abrahams
Co-Writer & Protagonist: Anne Chataigné
Anne - Key Cast: Nicole Schretlen Montes
Animation Director: Lisa Cruz
Director of Photography: Natalja Safronova
Editor: Kevin Corry
Music: Matthieu Saikaly
Executive Producer: Hannah Bush Bailey
Production Company: Just Be Nice Studios
Supported by: BFI Doc Society Fund
In Association with: Bipolar UK

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