The Leo Baeck Institute London is pleased to invite you to another free online screening from the LBI Film Club, starting on Thursday 24th September 2026.
Our latest selection offers a fascinating and unconventional portrait of Sigmund Freud, exploring his Jewish identity, exile and the experiences of marginalisation that shaped his life and work.
Outsider . Freud
(Yair Qedar, Israel/Austria/Germany, 2025)
Outsider. Freud offers an unconventional portrait of Sigmund Freud, exploring his life and work through the lens of his Jewish identity and his experience of being an outsider. Structured in four movements – The Jew, Freud Becomes Freud, Love/Death and Exile – the film combines archival footage and letters, read by Austrian actor Karl Markovics, with animation, dream sequences and reflections from leading psychoanalysts and Freud scholars. It explores Freud’s experiences of marginalisation as a Jew in Vienna, the impact of the rise of Nazism and his eventual exile, while considering how these experiences shaped both his personal life and his thinking. Poetic and visually inventive, the film offers a distinctive perspective on Freud’s legacy and on the relationship between psychoanalysis, Judaism and the experience of exclusion.
The film has been exceptionally well received internationally, winning 15 awards and appearing at festivals and screenings in more than 20 countries. It was also awarded the prestigious 2025 Gradiva Award for Best Documentary.
Documentary, 66 mins
Language: Hebrew, English, German, French
Subtitles: English
Directed, produced and written: Yair Qedar
Music: Wolf-Maximilian Liebich
Co producers: Barbara Pichler, Gabriele Kranzelbinder, KGP Vienna
Executive producers: Dorit Hakim and Lee Shira
Editing: Noit Geva, Tommy Shles Shafrir
Narration: Karl Markowitz
Dream Animation Concept art and animation director: Tal Kantor
Dream Sequences animation: SWICZ Animation
Photography: Uri Ackerman
The film features contributions from leading psychoanalysts, historians and Freud scholars, including Adam Phillips, Lisa Appignanesi and George Makari.
The film will be available to view free of charge for one week, from 24th September – 30th September 2026.
The viewing link will appear here on the 24th September.
For further information about this film, please watch our introductory video with the film’s writer, director and producer Yair Qedar.
We wish to thank Yair Qedar for generously sharing his time and expertise and Stella Anis of Film Office — Outsider. Freud for her support in making this screening possible.
Further LBI Film Club screenings will be announced via our website and social media channels.
Enjoy the film!
