12 Days

Each year in France, 92,000 people are involuntarily placed under psychiatric care. By law, within 12 days, they must appear before a judge who decides based on medical records and doctors' recommendations whether they remain confined or regain freedom. Granted rare access, Raymond Depardon captures these tense hearings where justice meets psychiatry, revealing fragile lives at a turning point and giving a voice to those long unheard. AKA 12 jours.