Movies: Anxiety

A 2023 Perth Anthology Feature Film. Four directors come together to create and dissect an exploration of mental health through four short, but horrifying stories and genres; Sci-Fi, Gothic, Fantasy, and Psychological....

Over 3 studio sessions, a dancer overcomes his self-doubt and regains his self-confidence through this other character pushing him to get out of his comfort zone. His anxiety is represented through the delay of his reflection in the dance studio mirr...

While struggling to emotionally detach from the deceased, a crime scene cleaner believes a monstrous presence is toying with him....

A young man is bullied by a physical personification of his anxiety before a date....

A trio of friends find themselves in a "what if" situation on the road to the movies....

The light's in a student's room begin to shut off around him. He must escape the room before he is swallowed by darkness....

In a typical day at swim practice our protagonist is bombarded by the whistling of her eccentric coach, the majesty of the older swimmers, the horror of getting her period, and naughty recordings on her teammate’s cellphone. All while, the protagonis...

Celia Pacquola is an award-winning actor and comedian. She also suffers from anxiety. She wants to help millions of Australians through their battle with anxiety by telling her story, challenging stigma and showing a way through it. She will meet tho...

A story about a girl and her inner demons....

A tense man must let out his aggression in a private bathroom....

Social media corrupts the mind of a young University student--but can he escape the psychological torment of alienation?...

A young man grapples with imposter syndrome after accepting a job at Red Lobster....

Before the freeze, there was beautiful garden. "Before the Freeze" is a short psychological thriller with experimental elements, about an overstressed, newly-single mother, her daughter, their dog, and what happens one afternoon when a friend comes ...

Sol and Cami are best friends. Sol goes to Cami's house, trying to get her out and hang with their old friends. This is not easy as it seems, and music, the passion that bonds them, could be the solution....

In the lush depths of the rainforest, Vilma and Andrés find themselves gripped by an eerie premonition, a haunting sense of a catastrophe looming on the horizon-a disaster they have never encountered in reality but have always feared in their imagina...

The Cordura Island lighthouse keeper is left alone when his companion leaves for the mainland. On a stormy night he finds a letter. The story it tells and his fear of the loneliness at night will take him to the limits of madness....

The stress, pressure, and fast pace that we experience daily make us overlook our well-being. We live immersed in a constant fleetingness that wreaks havoc on our way of life. Oasis is a critique of the overwhelming mass society that consumes us and ...

Switch On is a short horror film that juggles questions about the pressures the modern-day education system places on young students and the effects this has on them. The heart of the story is Alexander, a young student plagued by insomnia and anxiet...

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When Sam begins to have panic attacks surrounding his work and productivity, he turns to his therapist for help. During their discussion, he rediscovers the issues that he has been struggling with and must decide whether to face them head-on or to wa...