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    Desc: Breaking the chains: Directed by Erminia Colucci. 'Breaking the Chains' (65 min) depicts the use of physical restraint and confinement of people with mental illness in Indonesia, an illegal practice known as pasung in this country but common also in other low and middle income countries, and almost universally ignored. To address these severe human rights violations, the Indonesian government has committed to the elimination of this practice across the country by 2015. This film-documentary, the first of this kind, follows the activities carried out by activists, also with mental health problems, to provide care and give freedom and dignity to the mentally ill who have been restrained, such as Yayah, a young woman who has been chained inside a small room for 17 years.