Teenage Beldina Odenyo's face fills the screen. "I suppose if anything ever happens to me,” she says, “it would be good if somebody found this and basically understood how I was feeling." Watching the opening of the feature film Bel, I felt like a witness to a prophecy: Odenyo ended her life just as her star was about to shoot.

In this Response to Shaparak Khorsandi’s Edinburgh Fringe show Scatterbrain, Shivam Chowdhary describes the joy of watching a performer revel in their ADHD mind, and the ache that comes with finding oneself on the outside of a diagnosis.

Theophina Gabriel responds to Alexandrina Hemsley’s Fountain, where a trio of dancers explore tidal cycles of repair, loss, joy and intimacy, expressed through movement and digital imagery.

Asyia Iftikhar responds to (Tending) (to) (Ta), a dream-like journey across parallel dimensions that imagines a world without capitalism, by interdisciplinary artist April Lin 林森.

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Mohammedally Shushtari’s film Can Be beautifully shows all of the emotional complexities of two siblings, a brother and sister, Noura and Faiz, grappling with their father’s death. Each embodies conflicting emotional responses, clearly feeling misunderstood by the other. But, as each character learns to accept the other’s feelings, they map a path towards not only empathy for their sibling, but also a more holistic healing experience for themselves.

Xandra Sunglim Burns responds to Aleta, a film about a young woman who sits down with her therapist to explore her tumultuous feelings, by Josh Bridge.

Andrés N Ordorica responds to Bitter Earth, a film by Nile Price that uses metaphor to explore depression - a man sitting at the edge of a pier, defeated and looking for a way out.

Asyia Iftikhar responds to plant portals: breath, a film by Nicky Chue who presents an experimental meditation on the concept of “rest” and asks: “Can nature heal us?”

Raman Mundair interviews People of Colour affected by loneliness and isolation during the COVID-19 lockdown, and asks how we can support each other.