The Ninth European Psychoanalytic Film Festival (epff9) will take place from 2 - 5th November 2017
at The Royal Society of Medicine and BAFTA, London
Director: Andrea Sabbadini
The theme of this year’s festival – epff9 – is Interiors/Exteriors. These apparently opposed territories can at times harmoniously coexist, while at others they clash with each other in painful, disturbing or, possibly, transformative ways.
This idea is highly pertinent to both cinema and psychoanalysis. Psychoanalysis is at its very core about how we experience within us what is happening in the world outside. Conversely, it also investigates how the roles we assume in external reality – particularly in relationships – are shaped and affected by our inner worlds.
Cinema, too, has always explored ideas around relatedness and disconnection; surfaces and depths; visible images and what lies behind them; our deep inner worlds and the vast, sometimes unfathomable world beyond us.
The Festival will include screenings of European films and discussions on the theme of Interiors/Exteriors
A festival party will take place on 4th November at the British Film Institute (BFI) in Soho
PROVISIONAL PROGRAMME:
epff9 - INTERIORS / EXTERIORS
ROYAL SOCIETY OF MEDICINE
Thursday, 2 November
- Inside/outside. An Audiovisual Essay (Jonathan Isserow 2017, 3 min, UK). Introduced by Jonathan Isserow
- Portrait (Angela Feeney - Susanne Lansman 2017, 4 min. UK).
Introduced by Susanne Lansman
- Benigni (Elli Vuorinen - Jasmiini Ottelin - Pinja Partanen 2009, 7 min, Finland). Introduced by George Gavin
BAFTA
Friday, 3 November
PRINCESS ANNE THEATRE DAVID LEAN ROOM
9.00-10.30 PANEL Interiors / Exteriors: Psychoanalytic, cinematic, and architectural perspectives.
Michael Brearley, Peter Evans, Jane Rendell Chair: Andrea Sabbadini
Coffee and tea break
10.50-12.20 PANEL Landscapes. Lesley Caldwell, Erica Carter and Caroline Bainbridge. Chair: Kannan Navaratnem
10.50-12.30 FILM Flickan, mamman och demonerna [The Girl, the Mother and the Demons]
(Suzanne Osten 2015, 92 min, Sweden)
The Girl, the Mother and the Demons (Suzanne Osten 2015, Sweden)
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14.00-15.50 FILM Fritz Lang (Gordian Maugg 2016, 104 min, Germany)
Fritz Lang (Gordian Maugg 2016, Germany)
14.00-15.00 PANEL Flickan, mamman och demonerna [The Girl, the Mother and the Demons]
Suzanne Osten and Anders Berge. Chair: Laura Forti
15.10-16.10 DIALOGUE Screen as skin and landscape Cheryl Moskowitz and Claudia Fuortes. Chair: Lesley Caldwell
Coffee and tea break
16.30-19.00 FILM & PANEL La Puerta Abierta [The Open Door] (Marina Sereseski 2016, 82 mins, Spain) Carol Topolski and tbc. Chair: Peter Evans
The Open Door (Marina Sereseski 2016, Spain)
16.30-17.30 PANEL Fritz Lang
Gordian Maugg and Sabine Wollnik-Krusche. Chair: Gerhard Schneider
17.40-19.10 LECTURE From Shoah to Son of Saul: an Intergenerational Dialogue.
Catherine Portuges. Chair: David Bell
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21.00-22.30 FILM Room at the Top (Jack Clayton 1959, Great Britain 115 min)
Room at the Top (Jack Clayton 1959, Great Britain)
Saturday, 4 November
9.00-10.00 PANEL Room at the Top
Charles Drazin, Michael Halton. Chair: Peter Evans
9.00-10.40 FILM A Week and a Day (Asaph Polonsky 2016, 97 min, Israel)
A Week and a Day (Asaph Polansky 2016, Israel)
Coffee and tea break
10.20-11.50 FILM Dokumentalists [Documentarian] (Ivares Zviedris and Inese Klava 2012, 82 mins. Latvia)
The Documentarian (Ivars Zviedris and Inese Klava 2012, Latvia)
11.00-13.00 FILM Fuocoammare [Fire at Sea] (Gianfranco Rosi 2016, 114 min, Italy)
Fuocoammare (Gianfranco Rosi 2016, Italy)
12.00-13.00 PANEL A Week and a Day
Noa Ben-Nun Melamed and Shimshon Wigoder.
Chair: Emanuel Berman
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14.00-15.00 PANEL Dokumentalists [Documentarian]
Ivars Zviedris and Helen Taylor Robinson. Chair: Silvija Lejniece
14.00-15.50 FILM Perfetti sconosciuti [Perfect Strangers] (Paolo Genovese 2016, 97 min, Italy)
Perfect Strangers (Paolo Genovese 2016, Italy)
15.10-16.10 PANEL Fuocoammare [Fire at Sea]
Dario Zonta and Roberto Goisis. Chair: Elisabetta Marchiori
Coffee and tea break
16.20-18.40 FILM & PANEL Chuck Norris vs Communism (Ilinca Calugareanu 2015, 78 min, Romania)
Ilinca Calugareanu, Irina Nistor and Ana Maria Moldovan. Chair: Laura Manu
Chuck Norris vs Communism (Ilinca Calugareanu 2015, Romania)
16:20-17.20 PANEL Perfetti Sconosciuti [Perfect Strangers]
Paola Mammini and Kannan Navaratnem. Chair: Rossella Valdré
17.30-19.30 FILM & PANEL Sigmund Freud. Origini e Attualità della Psicoanalisi [Sigmund Freud. The origins of psychoanalysis and its relevance to modern times] (Alessandra Balloni 2015, 56 min, Italy)
Alessandra Balloni and Romolo Petrini. Chair: Andrea Sabbadini
Sigmund Freud. The origins of psychoanalysis and its relevance to modern times (Alessandra Balloni 2016, Italy)
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20.30- 00.00 PARTY
at the Bar and Kitchen of the BFI (British Film Institute) 21 Stephen St, Fitzrovia, London W1T 1LN
Live music with Brazilian band 'Lambrego'
This wonderful Brazilian band will play an early acoustic set during dinner, then will turn up the heat for guests to dance the night away to their unique and infectious style of samba
Sunday, 5 November
Coffee and tea
9.30- 9.45 PRESENTATION The Russian Psychoanalytic Film Festival
Igor Kadyrov
9.50-10.50 SHORT FILMS Chair: Michael Halton
- Now, Listen (Clifford Yorke 1972, 5 min, UK). Introduced by John Yorke
- Procter (Joachim Trier 2002, 18 min, Norway). Introduced by Ian Christie
- I Think This Is The Closest To How The Footage Looked (Yuval Hameiri 2012, 9 min, Israel). Introduced by Emanuel Berman
10.50-13.00 PLENARY SESSION Chairs: Ian Christie and Andrea Sabbadini
13.00-14.00 Farewell drinks and close of epff9
All film screenings are followed by a panel discussion with the film director and a psychoanalyst. Please click on the image or film titles to view trailers.
Information about epff events:
Locations:
Royal Society of Medicine, 1 Wimpole Street, London W1G 0AE
BAFTA, 195 Piccadilly, London, W1J 9LN
BFI, 21 Stephen St, Fitzrovia, London W1T 1LN