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"The Bird Dancer" is part of a series of ethnographic films on severe mental illness in Indonesia, based on material drawn from 12 years of person-centered research by director and anthropologist Robert Lemelson. The film focuses on Gusti Ayu Suartini, a young Balinese woman living with Tourette’s syndrome. "The Bird Dancer" focuses on the social stigma of neuropsychiatric disorder and the human suffering it entails. (TRT 39 min) afflictionsfilmseries.com