The Desert of the Real (2025)

Name: The Desert of the Real
Genre: Documentary
Released: 2026-08-04T21:33:49+02:00
Rating: 3.5

Documentary | 110 minutes

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Genre: Documentary

Duration: 110 minuten

Country: Netherlands

Directed by: Luuk Bouwman

IMDb score: 8,7 (18)

Releasedate: 17 November 2025

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The Desert of the Real plot

Who am I? What is real? How to live in the madness of the world? These are questions asked by six people who experienced psychosis and speak candidly about them. What they have in common is that they think deeply and, at certain moments in their lives, came under heavy personal and societal pressure. This documentary takes the viewer into their lives before the life-changing event, the psychosis itself, the intense treatment—often accompanied by profound loneliness—and the long road back to recovery, in the realization that something irreversible has happened.