On the Adamant

Original title: Sur l'Adamant

L’Adamant Day Centre is a floating structure on the right bank of the River Seine in Paris, providing vital care to adults with mental disorders from the first four arrondissements of the French capital.

To mark Mental Health Week, we bring you this vibrant, engaging, life-affirming documentary from lauded director Nicolas Philibert won the coveted Golden Bear award at the Berlin Film Festival last year, and is a deeply humane, affecting, and understated portrait of some extraordinary people; patients & carers alike. Humble and unintrusive in its reportage-type style, this is an enlightening, heartwarming doc that tells a fascinating story elegantly.

Directors(s) Nicolas Philibert

Language: French with English Subtitles

Genre(s) Documentary

Runtime 1h 49m

Cast Mamadi Barri, Walid Benziane, Sabine Berlière

Cert PG

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