The Dryden will screen 12 jours (12 Days, Raymond Depardon, France 2017, 87 min., DCP; French w/subtitles) as part of the After Bedlam series.

Every year in France, 92,000 people are placed under psychiatric care without their consent. By law, the hospital has twelve days to bring each patient before a judge. Based on medical records and a doctor's recommendations, a crucial decision has to be made—will the patient stay or leave? Granted access to these hearings for the first time, celebrated filmmaker/photographer Raymond Depardon captures these extraordinary encounters between justice and psychiatry. Astonishing, enlightening—a film that gives a voice to those who have previously been voiceless.

[source: George Eastman Museum, 2018-Apr-9]