9.5 min / documentary / 2000 / USA
filmmaker: Witness
This film documents the inhumane conditions faced by individuals with mental disabilities situated in grossly understaffed, inadequate and neglectful psychiatric facilities around the world.
Forgotten People was shot by WITNESS partner Mental Disability Rights International (MDRI), and is narrated by Susan Sarandon.
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