Our next film screening

‘Breaking the Chains’ is an ethnographic documentary that depicts the use of physical restraint and confinement of people with mental illness in Indonesia, a practice known as Pasung. The film contributes to an understanding the reasons behind this practice, and the issues that must be overcome to eradicate this human rights abuse. 

This film, by Dr Erminia Colucci, Centre for International Mental Health, School of Population and Global Health, University of Melbourne, tells an original story about the social and political activism to eradicate this unfortunate practice.

Organised by YOUMANITY, ‘Breaking the Chains’ will be showcased at SOAS in January 2016