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Alice: Ignorance is Bliss
Alice: Ignorance is Bliss (2014)
, 7minutes
Origin United-kingdom
Themes Medical-themed films, Documentary films about health care, Films about psychiatry, Films about disabilities

In 2004, Alice Whinnett was diagnosed with dementia. Over the following decade her condition naturally worsened, and everything in her world changed, all apart from how her "favourite grandson" behaved with her. In this short documentary, grandson Thomas McNaught gives a brief look at the relationship between his 84-year-old grandmother and himself, showing a lighter side to the disease that breaks so many families apart.
Lapse: Confessions of a Slot Machine Junkie
Lapse: Confessions of a Slot Machine Junkie (2013)
, 13minutes
Origin USA
Themes Medical-themed films, Documentary films about health care, Films about psychiatry, Films about disabilities

When VanBallenberghe turned thirty-six, he realized that he had been addicted to gambling for a third of his life. He decided to end the problem once and for all. His approach to recovery was two-fold: enter into psychotherapy, and make a documentary about the experience. Lapse is a personal documentary that portrays the fractured state of mind of a person in the grip of a gambling addiction. All of the dialogue in Lapse is taken from psychotherapy sessions that the director recorded.
Wearing Velvet Slippers under a Golden Umbrella
Wearing Velvet Slippers under a Golden Umbrella (1969)
, 2h13
Directed by Wunna
Themes Medical-themed films, Films about psychiatry, Films set in psychiatric hospitals

Dr. Kyi Thar (Myat Lay), who works at the intensive-care unit, Mental Health Hospital, Yangon, and the patient Ma Htar Htar (Myat Mon), an elder sister of a friend. They met for the very first time on his duty. Though the friend¹s family was from Mandalay, they came to Yangon, to Dr. Kyi Thar to take the medical treatment with great expectations. They were right as she was getting much better as time went by and in their relationship too. Both of them knew they were deeply in love, attached to each other without mentioning a thing. It was the patient, who tried to start a new beginning of their close relationship on the day they went out together. However, he severed relations with her against his will as he thought it was the best thing to do. He just tried to keep his morals as a doctor. But their separation left her with the feeling of deep hurt instead. She got worse when they met again after some time. The poor patient asked again her beloved doctor to go out together with a pat expression, "let's go out, anywhere!".