Ce qu'il reste de la folie (2014)
Directed by Joris Lachaise

Film Synopsis

Between 2011 and 2014, the documentary filmmaker Joris Lachaise set up his camera in a psychiatric hospital in Dakar, partly as a response to Jean Rouch's 1955 film Les Maîtres fous.  Lachaise's other motivation for making this film was to see to what extent western methods of psychiatric treatment have impacted on present day Africa, and how they have influenced, and been influenced by, traditional methods of mental health care in the continent.  Mental illness is something that, in the developed West, we tend to think of as a uniquely western malaise.  But as Lachaise's eye-opening documentary shows, it is just as prevalent in Africa - with the same suffering, the same needs to be met by modern psychiatric care.