The Lisbon & Estoril Film Festival has always devoted special attention, as it is one of our main goals, to promoting discussions and developing thoughts about art and the world, by organizing an international symposium, for which we invite several of the most important directors, writers, thinkers and artists, who, throughout three days, debate the topic at issue, thus contributing, with innovative ideas, to the understanding and development of contemporary thought and creation.
The international symposium for the 2015 edition is entitled “Bigger than Life” and it is curated by philosopher José Gil, internationally acknowledged as one of the greatest contemporary thinkers. The symposium will address the “relationship between madness and creation”, which has had a renewed interest, due to works in the fields of psychiatry and the neurosciences, as well as in criticism and thought regarding art.
In addition to the panel discussions that will gather authors and thinkers coming from different fields, the symposium includes a cinema programme that relates to this intriguing and disturbing topic of analysis.