A project devised and curated by
Palazzo Esposizioni Roma, the Centro Sperimentale di Cinematografia-Cineteca Nazionale and the Società Psicoanalitica Italiana

promoted by  
Rome the Capital City’s Cultural Affairs Department and the Azienda Speciale Palaexpo

Encounters introduced and moderated by
Fabio Castriota

The eagerly awaited appointment with Cinemente, the project that turns the Palazzo delle Esposizioni’s cinema theatre into a priority venue for analysing human action, observed with the help of the cinema and of psychoanalysis, is back for the eleventh year running, offering us a unique opportunity to look at ourselves through the reflections of directors debating with authorative psychoanalysts after the screening of their films. Thanks to the collaboration between the Azienda Speciale Palaexpo, the Centro Sperimentale di Cinematografia - Cineteca Nazionale and the Società Psicoanalitica Italiana, the cinema once again offers us a way of penetrating those emotions that influence what we are and do without our even being aware of them – a training ground for our awareness, where we can record the signals of a malaise that has become ever deeper. The project, which has always focused on themes echoing the experience of crises, addresses in this edition the destructive tide of hatred and violence looming over our lives both as individuals and as communities. You just have to switch on the television these days to be overwhelmed by the devastation of war, the impact of the economic and political crisis, violence in the family and in couples, and lives destroyed by a pain that holds out no glimmer of hope. At a time when all forms of empathy appear to have been lost and when everything seems to be slipping out of our grasp, Cinemente is an invitation to stop and think, and to react, thanks to the sensitivity that these films express on human destructiveness in the community, in the workplace, in the family and in our sentimental and emotional environment.

Our thanks for the films go to: Agav Films and Elefant Films in association with Indiana Production, Goldenart Production, Lucky Red, Netflix and Palomar (a Mediawan Company).