Thursday, September 9 | 8:00 pm | Muza Cinema, screening room 1
Evil in Our Home. Film-therapeutic Look at Family and Community Traumatized by Violence and Sexual Harassment
Meeting after the film ALBUM RODZINNY (REWIND), dir. Sasha Joseph Neulinger
Partner: Institute for Professional Help
The home video archive of the Neulinger family is seemingly no different from thousands of others - the father's camera closely follows the weekend trips together, the carefree first years of two children, Sasha and Bekah, Christmas and birthday gatherings with close relatives. Today, in the recordings Sasha, now an adult, looks for the moment when his happy childhood disappears, and is replaced by tension, uncontrolled aggression and sadness incomprehensible to his relatives. The missing pieces of the puzzle are complemented by conversations with those who were determined to reach the violent in nature roots of Sasha's transformation and break the chain of abuse - the closest family, a child psychiatrist and representatives of the judiciary who took up the main character’s case.
This shocking and at the same time intimate record of the painful experience of the director and his relatives and of how you can rebuild your identity after a trauma will become the basis of a film-therapeutic discussion with the viewers, which will be conducted after the screening by Joanna Sowińska - a psychotherapist from the Institute for Professional Help together with Dorota Reksińska. Together, we will try to ask the question why statistically the vast majority of violence and sexual harassment against the youngest takes place behind closed doors of the family home.
Joanna Sowińska - systemic psychotherapist with many years of experience, working therapeutically with individuals and couples. The originator of the Institute for Professional Help in Poznań which educates young psychologists, supporting them in improving their practical skills. The director of the authorial O!MEGA primary school and high school. Last year, together with Łukasz Raszewski, she conducted Film therapy at the Muza Cinema, discussing with the audience the dynamics of contemporary relationships.
Host:
Dorota Reksińska - cultural and film expert, graduate of Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznań. Since June 2017, she has been cooperating with Estrada Poznańska and Muza Cinema in Poznań. The main areas of her work are: producing events and setting the monthly film program of the cinema, as well as coordinating image-building activities and conducting film education classes. Non-professionally, she is also involved in film editing.
Partner:
Institute for Professional Help fills the space between theoretical academic knowledge and expensive and often unavailable professional training for psychologists. In Poznań's Jeżyce district, a team of clinicians with many years of experience share their knowledge with people taking their first steps as therapists. The intention of the Institute is to offer young professionals a chance to gain practical skills, improve their competence and discuss with specialists long before they decide to see their first clients in the office.
