Unrest (2017 film)

Unrest
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Directed by	Jennifer Brea
Written by	Jennifer Brea Kim Roberts
Produced by	Jennifer Brea Lindsey Dryden Patricia E. Gillespie Alysa Nahmias Deborah Hoffmann
Cinematography	Sam Heesen Christian Laursen
Edited by	Kim Roberts Emiliano Battista
Music by	Bear McCreary
Production companies	Shella Films Little By Little Films Impact Partners Chicken & Egg Pictures
Distributed by	Shella Films Netflix Independent Lens
Release date	January 20, 2017 (2017-01-20) (Sundance)
Running time	97 minutes
Country	USA

Unrest is a 2017 documentary film produced and directed by Jennifer Brea. The film tells the story of how Jennifer and her new husband faced an illness that struck Jennifer just before they married. Initially dismissed by doctors, she starts filming herself to document her illness and connects with others who are home- or bedbound with myalgic encephalomyelitis/chronic fatigue syndrome (ME).

The documentary was produced over a four-year period, in which Brea was mostly bedbound. The documentary shows Brea's route to diagnosis and the world of other people homebound with the illness. Unrest was shortlisted for the Academy Award for Best Documentary Feature Film, and won several film festival awards, including the jury award for editing at the Sundance Film Festival.