Film Screening: Outsider Freud

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Outsider. Freud is a cinematic journey in four acts into the mind, dreams, and exile of the man who invented the 20th century. Moving beyond a standard biography, the film is a mesmerizing visual tapestry that weaves together delicate animation, rare archival footage, and insights from the world's leading psychoanalysts. The film explores Sigmund Freud’s experiences of marginalization as a Jew in Vienna, revealing how his status as a permanent "outsider" birthed his most profound discoveries. Through an intimate lens, it uncovers new dimensions of Freud’s legacy—not merely as the famous professor on the couch, but also as a refugee and a survivor.

"The best film ever made about Freud." — George Makari, Historian

"A masterpiece." — Monika Pessler, Director, Freud Museum, Vienna

Yair Qedar is an award-winning filmmaker and social activist, specializing in high-end literary biographies. He pioneered a unique cinematic language that integrates deep archival research, innovative animation, and original music, and his work has garnered over 40 international and Israeli awards. Through his landmark documentary series "The Hebrews," he directed and produced 19 feature length documentaries chronicling the lives of central Jewish and Israeli figures of the modern Hebrew literary canon, including Amos Oz, A.B. Yehoshua and Avraham Sutzkever. Yair is also a leading LGBTQ activist and created the first Israeli LGBTQ newspaper. His latest film, Outsider: Freud , premiered at the Sigmund Freud Museum in Vienna in January 2025, has been screened in more than 20 countries, translated into 14 languages, and won 14 international awards, including the prestigious 2026 Gradiva Award for its contribution to psychoanalysis and culture.

Oren Gozlan is a psychoanalyst, author and speaker. He is a member of the Toronto Psychoanalytic Society and the International Psychoanalytic Association, where he serves on the Sexual and Gender Diversity Studies Committee.

Price: $12.00 Taxes not included