• Introduction of the film by Yair Qedar

• Viewing of the documentary

• Discussion & Q&A with Yair Qedar

Altogether, the event will last around 1.5 to 1.75 hours, including the screening.

Links: We will use the Zoom link below for the introduction and discussion; a separate link will be provided shortly before the event to watch the documentary. https://gcas-ie.zoom.us/j/84936537984?pwd=vh39IdRaIvT0VkbzIlYLna9Sk5PV7Z.1

Trailer: If you haven’t seen the trailer, check it out here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qkK_IyqIoK8

About the director:
Yair Qedar is a filmmaker and social activist, specializing in literary biographies. In his project named the "Hebrews", he produced and directed in the last 12 years 19 documentary films on Jewish writers and poets, creating a cinematic language that uses archives, animation and music, winning over 30 International and Israeli awards, his work screened in ZDF, ARTE, SVT, KAN, ERT and others. His latest film is "OUTSIDER. FREUD" about the life and work of Freud, supported ny RBB, ARTE, ORR, KAN, coming out mid 2025. 

Preparation: Please feel free to bring your questions for the director, so that we can have an interesting conversation.

This is an amazing opportunity, and I hope many of you can join.

Thanks to @Tanzil Ahmed for bringing the documentary to my attention.

This kind of says a lot about the situation most of us are in - helpless non-existence of some entity that has so much power over us:

"For about five to ten minutes the meeting stopped; clerks, officials were talking to one another on their phones; and eventually some official, some legal expert addressed me, and said the following words: ‘Well, the Eurogroup does not exist in law; there is no treaty which has convened this group.’ So what we have is a non-existent group that has the greatest power to determine the lives of Europeans. It’s not answerable to anyone, given it doesn’t exist in law; no minutes are kept; and it’s confidential. So no citizen ever knows what is said within . . . These are decisions of almost life and death, and no member has to answer to anybody.”: (from the text by Zižek)