The Riggs Difference: Where Understanding Leads to Recovery
When purchasing tickets, choose "Screening - Block K"
As part of the Meliora International Film Festival, documentary filmmaker Michele Beck will be screening her film Learning to Speak at the Quad Cinema (34 West 13th Street New York, New York 10011).
She describes the film as "a personal documentary that chronicles the filmmaker's journey from emotional breakdown, through treatment, to self-discovery. Following the death of her father, she revisits the open psychiatric hospital where she spent three and a half years after a suicide attempt in her early twenties, seeking to understand its impact on her life and make sense of the fragments of her past. The film delves into the challenges she faced in finding her voice and expressing her inner world, revealing how art ultimately became a means of communication and self-discovery."