Sur l’Adamant (2023)
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A documentary spends seven months with patients and caregivers at a Paris day center aboard a barge.
The story
At the Adamant, a day center aboard a barge on the Quai de la Rapée in Paris, adults with mental health disorders are welcomed into a daily routine. The center practices institutional psychiatry, offering therapeutic workshops and psychosocial rehabilitation support to help patients regain their footing in everyday life. Over seven months, the film observes the patients and caregivers who shape the center’s day-to-day life, including a multidisciplinary team of mental-health and support professionals.
Full plot (contains spoilers)
At the Adamant, a day center located on the Quai de la Rapée in Paris’s 12th arrondissement, adults with mental health disorders are welcomed aboard a barge. The center practices institutional psychiatry: the team responsible for it is among those making the greatest efforts to resist the decline and dehumanization of psychiatry. It offers patients a daily routine and helps them regain their footing in everyday life through therapeutic workshops and psychosocial rehabilitation support. This film invites us aboard to meet the patients and caregivers who shape their everyday lives, day after day. The Adamant team consists of psychiatrists, psychologists, nurses, occupational therapists, special-needs educators, psychomotor therapists, hospital staff, and art therapists. Patients and caregivers are filmed over seven months.
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