Helen

PRODUCER CHRISTINE HAEBER IN PERSON | Ashley Judd has the title role in this shot-in-Vancouver drama, an international co-production made in partnership with Vancouver’s Insight Films."Featuring a riveting performance by the gifted Judd and infused with intelligence and detail by [German writer-director] Sandra Nettelbeck, Helen transcends the usual limitations that besiege portraits of mental illness and depression...Helen focuses on a woman with an apparently perfect life: a successful academic, she seems happily married with a wonderful daughter. But we witness a sudden breakdown and a journey that is enigmatic and heartbreakingly real...What Nettelbeck and her colleagues have accomplished is an unapologetically moving examination that offers no simplistic answers...Helen is the work of artists whose craft and sensibility are special" (Sundance Film Festival). Colour, Digibeta video. 94 mins.