SARFF: (DIS) Honesty: The Truth About Lies

2016 is The South African Recovery Film Festival’s 4th year, and they are delighted to continue presenting documentary and feature films that explore themes of addiction and mental health issues in association with their main sponsors, the South African College Of Applied Psychology.

SARFF aims to educate and inform, to create debate and discussion – and to promote the solutions and successes of Recovery from the debilitating problems of addiction. They also hope to entertain and provide a safe space for people from all parts of the Recovery community to come together. The Festival aims to challenge the stigma and shame that surround addiction, alcoholism and mental health issues. They believe that stigma often drives ignorance of the conditions and makes access to help difficult, providing no space to celebrate the solutions. 

SARFF will be donating R5 of each ticket sold to the Cape Town Drug Counselling Centre. 

(DIS) Honesty: The Truth About Lies

Directed by: Yael Melamede

(USA 2015 1hr 30m)

(Dis)Honesty: The Truth About Lies’ is a film exploring the fascinating psychology of how and why people lie. Featuring the experiments of behavioral scientist Prof. Dan Ariely that measure our propensity to lie – sometimes even unknowingly, on a personal level, from little white lies to devastating deceits, people share on camera the true stories of lies they’ve told – and the consequences they have experienced. Experts examine with sensitivity, and humour, the reasons behind our behavior and the implications of our dishonesty. Recovery, we are told, is based on honesty, so how can we save ourselves from the traps everyone seems to fall into?