WITCHES Documentary Movie Trailer HD - Plot synopsis: Explores the connections between postpartum mental health and portrayal of witches in Western society & popular culture. Sankey intertwines her personal experiences with historical and cinematic footage—while creating a new coven of women to reclaim their stories. Featuring interviews with medical professionals, historians, and fellow sufferers, offering a multifaceted perspective on how women with mental health issues have been stigmatised and misunderstood over time, while creating a coven of women telling their own stories. Witches is a documentary film directed by British doc filmmaker Elizabeth Sankey.
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00:00When you think of witches, is this what you see?
00:09In school, I learned about the women who had been murdered in the medieval witch trials.
00:14Some of them were healers and midwives. Some of them had lost their minds.
00:20Three years ago, I gave birth to my son.
00:24Within a month, I was admitted to a psychiatric ward.
00:30It is chilling to realize that if I'd been alive back then, I would have been considered evil, a witch.
00:41But that was 400 years ago.
00:44Why is there still so little awareness around these illnesses?
00:52So I'm going to drag you into this spell with me.
00:55Because while I survived, far too many have not.