Of Men and War (2014)

Original title

Of men and war

Directed by

Laurent Bécue-Renard

Genre

documentary film

Country

France, Switzerland

Runtime

2h 22m

Rating

6.9 of 10 from 7 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

A group of American veterans with PTSD from the Iraq and Afghanistan wars attend a residential therapy program. Over five years, the film follows their group sessions and personal struggles as they process trauma and work toward recovery.

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What happens

Of Men and War (French: Des hommes et de la guerre) is a 2014 documentary film by Laurent Bécue-Renard. It explores the psychological legacy of war on a group of American veterans returning from conflicts in Iraq and Afghanistan. The men are undergoing trauma therapy at The Pathway Home, a residential treatment program on the grounds of the Veterans Home in Yountville, CA until 2018. Over the course of five years, they participate in group therapy and one-on-one sessions and gradually transform their trauma into narratives of survival before returning home to their wives, children, and parents. The film premiered in the Special Screenings section at the 2014 Cannes Film Festival. The film won the VPRO IDFA Award for Best Feature-Length Documentary at the 2014 International Documentary Film Festival Amsterdam. It received a European Film Award for Best Documentary nomination at the 27th European Film Awards and screened at the Museum of Modern Art's Documentary Fortnight. The Pathway Home suspended its operations indefinitely and placed its patients in other programs after a gunman killed three staff members in a 2018 murder-suicide. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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