Duncan Cowles, pictured, explores the crisis in men’s mental health in his new documentary
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Silent Men
Duncan Cowles
In select UK cinemas from 19 November; US release in 2025
Scottish film-maker Duncan Cowles has always been rubbish at talking about his feelings. He was born into a family of stoic, “silent men” for whom love is something you only express in a birthday card. By his mid-twenties, keeping everything bottled up started to get to Cowles and seem more personal because of the reported crisis in men’s mental health.
Men are consistently less…
