The Psychoanalytic Center of California

invites you to join us for a

Fundraiser and Screening of the

Award-Winning Film

OUTSIDER. FREUD

Followed by a discussion with

Yair Qedar, Director and

Christfried Tögel, Freud Biographer

Sunday, April 19, 2026

10:00AM (PST)


Glorya Kaufman Performing Arts Center

Vista Del Mar Child and Family Services

3200 Motor Avenue, Los Angeles, CA 90034

Outsider. Freud is a 2024 Israeli documentary by Yair Qedar exploring Sigmund Freud's life and work, focusing on his experiences as a marginalized Jewish intellectual in Vienna and how his outsider status shaped his theories on the unconscious mind, using animation, archival footage, and expert interviews to reveal new dimensions of his legacy as a migrant, thinker, and genius.

Yair Qedar is an Israeli documentary filmmaker, social and peace activist and former journalist. He founded the HaZman HaVarod (The Pink Times), Israel’s first LGBTQ+ newspaper. Since 2010, Qedar has been developing The Hebrews, a film series focused on key figures in modern Hebrew and Jewish literature. The project includes 19 feature-length films combining archival material, interviews, animation, and text. The series has been screened widely and has received over 40 awards. In parallel, Qedar has directed filmic works dealing with gender, queer identity, and cultural history. His recent film, OUTSIDER. FREUD, examines the Jewish and outsider dimensions of Sigmund Freud’s life and legacy, in dialogue with psychoanalytic and queer perspectives. His films are shown at cultural institutions, festivals, and universities internationally.

Christfried Toegel is one of the leading Freud biographers of our time. He is the editor of the 23-volume Sigmund Freud Complete Edition, the first edition which includes four volumes of all his pre-analytic writings. Among Toegel’s more than 150 publications on the history of psychoanalysis and Freud biographies are ten books that have been translated into eight languages.