The Rescue of Sigmund Freud

11 AM LOS ANGELES • 2 PM NEW YORK

Freud the Outsider follows Sigmund Freud, the Jewish-Austrian founder of psychoanalysis. The film shows the marginalization and persecution he experienced during the rise of National Socialism that led to his exile and influenced his studies.

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VIEW THE TRAILER

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THE SCHEDULE

⇒ May 15-18 watch the film Freud the Outsider on your home device. A link will be provided to all who register.
⇒ May 17 at 2:00 p.m. US Eastern Time, tune into the program with our distinguished speakers. A link will be provided to all who register.

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MEET THE FILMMAKER

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Yair Qedar is an Israeli documentary filmmaker, social activist, and former journalist. His ground-breaking project “The Hebrews,” chronicles the lives and literary works of Jewish and Israeli figures of the modern Hebrew and Jewish literary and intellectual canon. Qedar’s 19 feature-length documentaries have all premiered at film festivals and have won the director over 35 prizes. Qedar is also a leading LGBTQ activist, who created several Queer films and the first Israeli LGBTQ newspaper. Since the early nineties, Qedar has been involved in journalistic writing and editing. He has written for Schocken, Haaretz, and Davar and served as editor and deputy editor of travel magazine Masa Acher. Qedar has won the Allied Prize for World Jewish Press and the European Union Award for Journalistic Reporting in the Mediterranean.

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Registration for this program will open at a later date.