S8.E3 ∙ Alexandra

An Incredible True Story of Survival Audacity and Deception from the Darkest Days of the Holocaust. December 1944 whilst heavy snows fall over Budapest and soldiers battle for the streets.

The lives of 5 strangers and a robot are stitched together in a series of vignettes exhibiting the fluctuating state of their mental health.

What's Art Got To Do With It? is an hour in length, documentary that takes us inside the hidden world of five people living with mental illness, homelessness, addiction and poverty. And yet the film has made people, smile, cry and talk--not about social ills, but about art! The characters, followed over a year, discover new ways to live their lives by attending a very unusual occupational therapy program and artists' sanctuary in Toronto. Through their honest challenges and triumphs we explore the meaning of art in our lives and in our hearts. The character's journeys as they become artists, from novice to finally selling their work and participating in public art exhibits, gives each person a new lease on life.

A film portrayal of a pioneering aviator and best-selling author whose extraordinary public life had a deep impact on her inner world.