About this event

The Thirteenth European Psychoanalytic Film Festival (epff13)

The weekend will run from 1pm on Friday 13th November with an optional drinks reception on the Friday evening to honour Andrea Sabbadini, a full day Saturday, and until 3pm Sunday.

The theme of the festival is PASSION

Passion disturbs. Complex and compelling, it disrupts reason, unsettles order, and defies containment. 

The word ‘passion’ is derived from the Latin root patior, meaning ‘to suffer’ or ‘to undergo.’ Sharing its origin with ‘patient’ and ‘passive,’ it is experienced as an overwhelming force imposed upon us and, seeming to be beyond our control, it is akin to madness. Passion is not defined by its object: its essence is excess. 

Like Hope (EPFF11) and Journey (EPFF12), Passion is not a psychoanalytic concept, yet it runs like a red thread through the work of Freud from the seething cauldron of the unconscious to the life and death drives. 

In the films we have chosen for the festival, contemporary European filmmakers explore passion in its myriad forms: in the passionate suffering of mourning, in the passion for truth or in impossible love. It is the intensity and urgency of feeling that unites them all. 

It was the twin passions for film and psychoanalysis of Andrea Sabbadini (1950-2025) that inspired him to create this biennial event and we celebrate his life and work in the opening afternoon of this, the 13th festival. 

Katalin Lanczi & Anne Patterson, Co Directors EPFF13

Programme

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Trailers

Friday: The Red Sea Makes Wanna Cry | Cinema Paradiso | The Three Sisters

Saturday: Pink Lady | Signs of Life | Le Roman de Jim | Fiume o morte! | Orphan (Árva) | Leibniz | Franz | They Will Be Dust | Vermiglio 

Sunday: Birdsong | The Tale of Silyan | The Madman (Nebunul)

Check out the highlights of our past European Psychoanalytic Film Festivals here.

Concession tickets
Available to under 25s, full time undergraduates and Masters students, BPC trainees including IPA candidates. Please email [email protected] for more information and please specify whether you would like to attend the full festival, or one specific day.

REFUND POLICY:
10 weeks or more - 90% refund
6 to 10 weeks - 50% refund
Less than 6 weeks - No refund

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