Head First
Release date: 2019-03-22
Votes: 2
Genres: Documentary
Director Mathieu Arsenault and two other sufferers of bipolar disorder tell the story of their journey into mental illness and back, while the partners and family members who helped them through it tell the story as they experienced it.
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