Do you have a favourite feelgood song or movie?

FEELGOOD films, mood enhancing music, theatre, dance and literature are all being offered up in Glasgow at the Scottish Mental Health Arts and Film Festival.

By Sarah Swain and Lauren McCann

FEELGOOD films, mood enhancing music, theatre, dance and literature are all being offered up in Glasgow at the Scottish Mental Health Arts and Film Festival.

The event, which will see movies such as ET and The Big Lebowski being screened at the Grosvenor Cinema in Ashton Lane, also includes readings from poets such as Liz Lochhead and performances from musicians, including Delgados founder Emma Pollock.

The third annual festival, which runs until October 22, aims to challenge attitudes towards mental health through the arts.

And the organisers have been challenging it for the last few weeks by asking people to name the song or film that insprires them or makes them feel happy.

Anne Hawkins, of NHS Greater Glasgow and Clyde, one of the organisations backing the festival, said: "The festival gives people the opportunity to explore mental health in the broadest sense, participating in the type of events that appeal to them. Some of the events are fun, others serious.

"It provides Scotland with an unrivalled opportunity to change the way individuals think about mental health."

The nominations for the feel-good movies cross the whole spectrum of cinema, and are not just so-called happy films, but ones that challenge and stimulate, films that make you laugh and cry. The list has ranged from The Sound of Music to The Shawshank Redemption.

In the same way the charity has targeted music. Including the current batch of pop, rock and hip-hop, they were able to compile a list that also took in classical, jive, opera and jazz.

The opening concert was held in The Old Fruitmarket in Candleriggs last night and other events will include The Trick Is To Keep Writing at the Mitchell Library on October 16 and 17.

We went out on to the streets of Glasgow and asked: what movie or music makes you feel happy?

For more information see the website: www.mhfestifal.com

As festival aims to raise awareness of mental health through arts...
JOHN CRAWLEY, 56, self-employed, Newton Mearns: "Gimme Shelter by The Rolling Stones. It's a classic song of its day - the 70s - and it was released when The Rolling Stones were at their peak."	PETER MOORE, 24, student, Bearsden: "I really loved the Goonies - it was such an amazing movie. It reminds me of my younger years, if I watch it back I reminisce."	CATHERINE PEARSON, 24, civil servant, Glasgow: "This Is England. The film is centred on young skinheads, and is set in England in or around July 1983, so it was a coming of the age film for me."	SCOTT GRANT, 54, theatre prop artist, Airdrie: "The Parallax View. It's not so well known as other 1970s movies, but it sure will be a classic. I love movies with Warren Beatty."

MARGARET WEBSTER, 62, retired, PossilPark:

"The film Imitation of Life. It was adapted from the novel, and it was so true to life about losing children or not being able to look out for your children. It just really gets home to you."

SCOTT CADDEN, 41, trader, Ibrox:

"The Gambler by Kenny Rogers. It was my father's favourite song, and ever since I was a little nipper I have known all the words. So now, at parties or if the karaoke comes out, I sing it."