Elephant

The SER project — Saúde Mental, Estigma e Resiliência — brings together professionals from health, culture, education and social communication to create space for reflection on mental illness and the stigma surrounding it, encouraging dialogue between science, health and society. As part of this work, Batalha hosts a cycle of films devoted to the subject, including a special screening of Gus Van Sant’s Elephant. Inspired by the 1999 Columbine massacre, the film follows the aftermath of an attack in which two teenagers shot students and teachers at a Colorado high school.