Una cierta verdad

In his gripping first feature documentary, Abel Garcia Roure chronicles, over a period of two years, six people who frequent the same mental health centre in the outlying areas of Barcelona, Sabadell’s Parc Taulí Hospital. They all share the same problem: grave psychosis, a mental disorder encompassing schizophrenia and paranoia. Doctors and patients who live with the disease from day to day narrate their tribulations to the camera. We therefore hear different personal experiences from, among others, Javier, who has been having auditory hallucinations and delirium about cosmic matters for twenty years, or Bernat, who takes a closer look at the social reactions occurring when a person admits to suffering from the illness. Abel Garcia Roure (b. 1975, Barcelona) graduated in 1997 in Audiovisual Communications from the Universidad Pompeu Fabra, earning an IDEC Master in Creative Documentary two years later. He worked as an assistant director to José Luis Guerin, Isaki Lacuesta, Mercedes Álvarez and Carla Subirana, among others.