Curated by Rajiv Mehrotra

A Drop of Sunshine (India)
(40 min; 2011; English)
A film by Aparna Sanyal

Screening will be followed by a discussion with the filmmaker

Through the powerful story of young Reshma Valiappan, the film takes a contrarian stance on schizophrenia. Positing that the only treatment method is one where the ‘patient’ is an equal partner in the healing process, it crafts a new vocabulary to address the stigmatized mental illness

(Collaboration: Foundation for Universal Responsibility of His Holiness The Dalai Lama)