a sensitive approach to caring for children’s mental health

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Singer Zaho de Sagazan frequently talks about the emotionality that weighed her down as a child. Until she learned to channel and sublimate her tears using a piano. A revelation of which she made a song in 2023, The Symphony of Lightningin which she imagines herself as a bird ” In(ant) under the storm » et « travers(ant) the clouds » to approach the Sun. The piece resonated with actress and novelist Isabelle Carré. She takes it back in her Dreamersand sprinkles his first creation with drawn birds. They decorate the childhood bedroom of its heroine, Elisabeth, and come to life during several key moments of the film.

And The Dreamers is the story of a flight, that of a suicidal young girl who became a successful actress, this journey is not without pain. By adapting her first novel, inspired by her internment as a teenager in the psychiatric department of Necker hospital in Paris, Isabelle Carré has created a humble, tender and sensitive film that tackles the issue of adolescent mental health head on. In ten years, the number of psychiatric hospitalizations among girls aged 10 to 14 has increased by 246%, notes a card placed at the very end. Two out of three hospitalizations are linked to suicide attempts, and one in two young people in France cannot be treated due to lack of space and trained professionals.

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