Unrest

Friday, September 22 - Thursday, October 5, 2017

28 year-old Jennifer Brea is working on her PhD at Harvard and soon to be engaged to the love of her life when she gets a mysterious fever that leaves her bedridden and looking for answers. Disbelieved by doctors and determined to live, she turns her camera on herself and her community, a hidden world of millions confined to their homes and bedrooms by ME, or chronic fatigue syndrome.

Official selection: Sundance, SXSW, HotDocs Film Festival

  • Country UK/USA
  • Year 2017
  • Running Time 90 minutes
  • Director Jennifer Brea

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