The issue of migration – both psychological and geographical – will be the focus of the 6th European Psychoanalytic Film Festival, entitled: Border-Crossing: migration across national and mental states.
Festival Director, psychoanalyst Andrea Sabbadini, says:
“Lectures and panels will focus on the geographical and psychological border space where transitions occur and where changes – subtle and slow, or more often traumatic – can take place”.
The FF, organised by The Institute of Psychoanalysis, will screen films from 10 different European countries.
The films will be discussed by the filmmakers themselves with psychoanalysts and film scholars.
The FF is supported by eminent director Bernardo Bertolucci who has been its Honorary President since it began in 2001. In a BBC interview with John Tusa Bertolucci explained:
“I went first to a Freudian psychoanalyst in 1969… I didn’t go really because I wanted to make bigger, wider, my perspectives or my horizon. I went because I felt in need of a kind of very intimate dialogue, to be able to speak with somebody about things I wasn’t able to speak with anybody else. And that was really the beginning of a great discovery, the discovery that psychoanalysis was like adding a new lens, a new objective to my camera.”
The FF is open to anyone with an interest in film and contemporary culture. There will be an opportunity for the audience to participate in open panel discussions. For more information on the FF, please click here
If you would be interested in starting an “intimate dialogue” with a Jungian analyst, please click here.
If you are interested in reading the earlier post on a Jungian analysis of and upcoming webinar on the film Black Swan please click here. (This post also gives details of recent publications by Jungians on film.)
For a Jungian analysis of the film True Grit click here.
