A project devised and curated by the Azienda Speciale Palaexpo, the Centro Sperimentale di Cinematografia – Cineteca Nazionale and the Società Psicoanalitica Italiana
Encounters introduced and moderated by Fabio Castriota
A unique opportunity here in Italy for us to look inside ourselves, combining the cinema with psychoanalysis, Cinemente turns the Palazzo delle Esposizioni’s cinema theatre into a workshop open to debate and to an understanding of human action. Screening films that address crucial aspects of our experience and hosting conversations between psychoanalysts and directors, the festival has been offering viewers a salutary rendez-vous for the past nine years, a gym in which to train our awareness and to probe our relationship with the world, in search of those emotions and tensions that determine and that have a profound influence on that relationship.
At times like the present, when the world seems to be hurtling straight towards some threatening and unfathomable abyss, it is more crucial than ever to redefine the linchpins of our existence, such as love and solitude, the balance between nature and progress, or expectation and loss, adopting such specifically human resources as pietas and empathy towards those changes that the emergency threatens to make incurable. The cinema and psychoanalysis are precious allies in this search, making the invisible visible. As though in a dream or in a premonition, they are capable of ferrying us into the depths and of shedding light on unexpected ways out of the spreading gloom.
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Our thanks for the films go to:
Avventurosa, BIM, Luce Cinecittà, Lucky Red, Nexo Digital, Rai Cinema, Vision Distribution
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Sala Cinema
Admission via steps in via Milano 9a
ADMISSION FREE WHILE PLACES LAST, RESERVATIONS REQUIRED
Access to the screenings is restricted to those in possession of COVID-19 Certification (“Green Pass Rafforzato”) and of an FFP2-type face mask.
Reservations should be made on our website from 9:00 am on the Monday preceding the screening right up until an hour before the film is due to start.
If you cannot make it, please remember to cancel your booking in your private area on the website so that someone else can take your place.
Please make sure you get there 10 minutes before the film is due to start, otherwise your reservation will no longer be considered valid and your place will be given to the first person in the queue at the entrance.
Please show up in good time to comply with all the measures designed to contain the spread of COVID-19, and remember to wear your face mask from the moment you enter the building until you leave it after the performance.