'Only Women Bleed' is a feature film based on the accounts of six women admitted into an Asylum during the late Nineteenth Century. All suffering from Hysteria.

Andre Breton would describe these women as the, 'greatest poetic discovery of the late nineteenth century.' Women during this period were regarded as being too sensual, thereby open to manias of all kinds, and therefore requiring a great deal of censure to prevent them from becoming Hysterical, which untreated, would surely lead to becoming insane. In fact women were seen as the carriers of madness.

Written & Directed by Richard Dykes

Vera Bremerton - Soundtrack
MUA - Lucia Mameli

Cast:

Maria Alexe - Marie
Dominic O'Flynn - Dr. Charcot
Tommie Grabiec - Dr. Bournville
Vasiliki Stasinaki - Louise
Martha Passakopoulou - Genevieve
Paula Duarte - Jeanne
Anaïs Lalange - Charlotte
Evangelia Kolyra - Nanette
Gracie Egan - Young Charlotte

Peter Stanford - Dr. Delarose
Al Groves - photographer Philipe Rennard

Doctors:

Wesley Lloyd
Imre Elekes
Peter Blackwell
Mark Williamson
Andrew G. Ogleby
Michael Feldwick

Mad Women:

Sylvia dos Santos Ferreira
Vanessa Abreu
Bessa Terholli
Neeru Harrison
Sawsan Abu Saleek
Natasha Jervis
Louise Johnson
Iana Tilaite