Series of films "Treating Mental Illness"

Mones com la Becky (Joaquim Jordà y Núria Villazán, 1999, 97’)

Presentation by Carlos Hernández and Héctor Gómez, members of the Cinema Club.

Direction: Joaquim Jordà, Núria Villazán Script: Joaquín Jordá, Nuria Villazán Photography: Carles Gusi Cast: Joao Maria Pinto, Marian Varela, Valentí Agustí, J.A. Burzaco, Enrique Jordá, Joao Lobo Antunes, Elliot S. Valenstein.

Synopsis: Around sixty years ago a Portuguese neurologist called Egas Moniz attended a Congress of Psychology in London. There, an American biologist presented a chimpanzee called Becky, it was a lovely animal. After that, a film was screened in where the same animal appeared like a tremendously agressive beast. The medicine-nobel-prize winner and neurosurgeon Egas Moniz is currently well-known for having invented the lobotomy.

All screenings will be in original version with subtitles with a presentation and a discussion

Free entry, limited seating capacity