Why Are All My Friends Depressed?


Medium-Long Essayfilm, 29 min.
Studiobuilt 2024
Postproduction

Production Design: Lina Doll, Yeron Stocker
Director: Lea Tama Springer, Hannah Jandl
DoP: Dominik Boros

Synopsis: “Why do so many young people who seem to have everything often feel empty and desperate? Is depression in this case really a purely biological illness, or does this perspective distract from the societal causes? "Why are all my Friends depressed?" searches for answers through conversations, novels, music, and TikTok—in a world shaped by performance pressure, individualism, and the feeling of heading toward an abyss.”