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Mental health is a vital issue, and it’s never too late, in these troubled times, to check on your own well-being and ask for help. And also to make sure others are okay, that we\u2019re here to listen to and understand them. Like the protagonist of Sujip<\/i>, receiving a call that suddenly becomes very personal at a suicide prevention helpline. Or like the bereaved actress in Manal Issa, 2024<\/i> in a bombed-out Beirut.<\/p>\n
In Our Pantheons<\/i>, we are tempted to ask those who insult and harass a tenacious archaeologist if they themselves need to speak to a therapist. Whether faced with sexual violence in tiny film about rape<\/i> or painful grief within the Cape Verdean community in Portugal in Antigone, The Story of Sara Benoliel<\/i>, these films are calls for empathy that is increasingly lacking these days.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Finally, in Drifting, South<\/i>, outcasts from diverse backgrounds in contemporary China find solace in each other beneath a fireworks display. As Leonard Cohen said: \u201cThere is a crack in everything. That\u2019s how the light gets in.\u201d<\/p>\n
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