Third session of the film programme Projeto SER: Mental Health, Stigma and Resilience. The project is developed by professionals from the fields of health, culture, education and social communication, and proposes a space for reflection on mental illness and the stigmas that surround it, promoting dialogue between science, health and society. The session will feature the screening of ‘Pára-me de repente o Pensamento’ (Suddenly My Thoughts Halt, 2014) by Jorge Pelicano. The director will be present at the screening.

26 NOV | THU | 17:00

PÁRA-ME DE REPENTE O PENSAMENTO | SUDDENLY MY THOUGHTS HALT

Jorge Pelicano | POR | 101'

A cup of coffee, a cigarette. A coin, another cup of coffee. Patients roam the halls. They walk alone. Waiting. Another smoke, a burning cigarette. Therapies that appeal to the senses. Routines that pull them back to reality. It’s life repeating itself at psychiatric hospital spaces’. Lucidity and madness live together. From the outside world comes an actor in search of his character for a theatre play, diving into the inner world of schizophrenia. Patients are part of the creation of the character. Amidst the haze, the actor finds a poem by Ângelo de Lima, an alienated. The theatre character is born. Cinema documents it.