Fifth European Psychoanalytic Film Festival: Epff5

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(Free-Press-Release.com) August 21, 2009 -- The Fifth European Psychoanalytic Film Festival (epff5) returns this year, with Eastern European cinema as the focus of a fascinating programme of screenings, panel discussions and workshops. The festival, which takes place at BAFTA's headquarters in London from 29 October - 1 November 2009, will bring together film-makers, psychoanalysts, critics, film historians, academics and film-lovers for an in-depth look at cinema from a psychoanalytic perspective.

The Festival is supported by eminent director Bernardo Bertolucci who has been its Honorary President since it began in 2001, and further speakers will include writer and academic Laura Mulvey (UK), director Peter Forgacs (Hungary), director Arsen Anton Ostojic (Croatia), academic and broadcaster Ian Christie (UK), actor, writer and director Gabriel Pintilei (Romania) and writer and director Alexei Popogrebsky (Russia).

Festival Chairman, psychoanalyst Andrea Sabbadini, says,

"Following the success of four previous festivals, epff5 is an unmissable event for all those interested in cinema, psychoanalysis or both. If offers a unique opportunity to see and discuss some of the best, and little-seen, Eastern European features of the last few years, such as the Hungarian Own Death by Peter Forgacs, the Estonian Somnambuul by Sulev Keedus and the Romanian Elevator by George Dorobantu."

An exciting new addition to this year's programme is a series of workshops on practical aspects of filmmaking, with practitioners talking about their work with psychoanalysts. In 'To Cut or Not to Cut', Maggie Mills, who worked for the British Board of Film and Video Classification for 18 years, will explore with psychotherapist and novelist Carol Topolski the issue of censorship, drawing parallels between the limits and freedoms of the mind and in society. Film editor Asher Tlalim will also co-present a workshop, 'Film Editing and Working Through', looking at the editing process and its links with psychoanalysis.

There will also be panel discussions, including an exploration of the role of the erotic imagination in films such as Ingmar Bergman's Faithless and Love, directed by Hungarian Karoly Makk. There will also be a discussion on the relationship between animation, literature and dreams, focusing on Alexander Petrov's film The Dream of A Ridiculous Man, and 'Screening Desire', a discussion of the work of epff5's Honorary President, Bernardo Bertolucci.

Although it has a psychoanalytic slant the festival has a broad appeal and is open to anyone with an interest in film and contemporary culture and there will be the opportunity for the audience to participate at open panel discussions.The full programme, including further information about the featured films and speakers, can be found at www.psychoanalysis.org.uk/epff4.

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