Constructed around the six-month period during which the helmers lived alongside an engaging group of people on prescribed medication for personality problems, and set largely in the hospital in Catalonia where they live, pic is the loosely told tale of their preparations for a low-key theater production based on the life of Portuguese neurologist Egas Moniz. After traveling to London in the ’30s and seeing a vicious monkey (Becky) calmed by having the central lobe of her brain removed, Moniz decided that the technique would work on people, too.

Shot in: Barcelona, Malgrat de Mar, Arenys de Munt, Palafolls.