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The Suicide Club - South Africa
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The Suicide Club - South Africa

2004 · 24 MIN · EN · STATUS: [ STREAMING ]
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Felicity Gough was fourteen, from Kimberley, South Africa, and by every account a happy kid with no visible warning signs. Then she hanged herself with her own skipping rope. The film uses her death to ask what drives teenagers who seem fine into suicide, and it finds the question has no easy answer in Kimberley alone: ten teenagers there attempt to take their own lives every week. Interviews with psychologists, family members, and young people who survived attempts trace the pressures behind the numbers, including poverty, domestic violence, and a lack of education, alongside the longer shadow of apartheid's economic and social damage. The film also looks at social media and the internet as newer forces that can deepen isolation rather than ease it. The survivors speak plainly about depression, anxiety, and feeling trapped, without dramatization or reenactment, just testimony. Felicity's family and community anchor the film's opening and its return at the end, holding her death against the broader pattern the statistics describe.