Unrest (12A)
F-Rated
Wed 17 – Thu 18 Jan
Wed 17, 6pmThu 18, 6pm
Dir. Jennifer Brea, US, 2017, 98 mins. Cast. Jennifer Brea
Brea’s documentary Unrest, won a prize at the Sundance Film Festival. Struck with a debilitating illness and unable even to sit in a wheelchair after a bout of high fever, filmmaker Jennifer Brea took to her camera to make sense of what she was going through. With many questions left unanswered by medical experts, Brea turned to the internet and found not only that her condition has a name; myalgic encephalomyelitis (ME), but along with it a supportive community of sufferers. Unrest details Brea’s fight to overcome the disabling disease commonly known as Chronic Fatigue Syndrome.