UNCOVERED: Nicolas philibert - The Untold Story

‘In the world of psychiatry, all your certainties are shattered’: has cinema’s champion of kindness run out of patience?

Nicolas Philibert completes his triptych of films about mental health centres with a documentary about where patients go on their darkest days

The Guardian - UK · Jul 17, 2025

On the Adamant – profoundly affecting documentary about a Paris psychiatric day centre

Être et Avoir director Nicolas Philibert’s latest prize winner takes the viewer inside a therapeutic facility where jam-making, art and music anchor lives

The Guardian - UK · Nov 5, 2023

‘I’d be a wreck without it’: the floating daycare centre where Parisians paint, dance and heal

Director Nicolas Philibert had an unexpected triumph with On the Adamant, his film about a haven for people with mental health problems, named after the British pop star. We go aboard

The Guardian - UK · Nov 2, 2023