📽️PSYNEMA festive: Last Christmas at Okūma
​✨A private screening, a grounding tea ceremony and a psychologist-led conversation, in one of Budapest’s most beautiful hidden tea houses.✨
​Christmas is meant to be the most wonderful time of the year. Yet so many of us feel a little out of place in this season…
​Maybe you live between two countries and neither quite feels like home. Maybe you’ve moved back, only to find that home has moved on without you. Or maybe you’re looking at the life you have and wondering when exactly you were supposed to have it all figured out.
​This December, PSYNEMA, where film meets psychology, comes to Budapest for one intimate evening. We’ll slow down, gather in a small circle of like-minded internationals, and watch a festive film that is far more tender and complicated than it looks. Then, guided by a psychologist, we’ll explore exactly these questions together.
​🍵 Where
​Okūma Tea House & Social Club is a hidden tea space inside an old renovated Budapest apartment, with Japanese-inspired interiors, tatami, plants, warm light and corners to sink into. For one night, the doors close behind us, and the space and its cinema setup (full surround sound) are ours.
​🎞️ The film
​On the surface, Last Christmas (2019) is a London Christmas rom-com. Underneath, it’s a story about a young woman who has lost her footing and is quietly falling apart while pretending she’s fine. She’s caught between her immigrant family and the life she thinks she should be living, and she keeps pushing away the people who care about her most. It’s a film about the questions many of us carry, especially at this time of year.
​✨ What to expect
​We arrive with a grounding tea ceremony. Your heart-warming welcome tea served following the Chinese tea ceremony: a slow moment to arrive and leave the December rush at the door.
​Then the private screening follows in Okūma’s intimate cinema space, with pots of herbal tea to keep you warm through the film.
​After the credits, we continue with a psychologist-led discussion. We stay together and explore what the film stirred in us: the characters, their choices, and what they reveal about our own inner lives. ​We may touch on the the feeling of being misplaced, immigration and identity, fitting in, the millennial midlife crisis, self-sabotage and self-worth and starting over.
​With only 15 seats, you’re among people who came for the same thing: real conversation and real connection.
​👠Your hosts
​Zsófi is a psychologist, screen industry mental health consultant, and founder of PsyCurious and PSYNEMA. She works in private practice and on film sets, supporting cast and crew through heavy scenes and challenging characters. PSYNEMA is where her two passions meet: bringing people together offline for a shared, mindful film experience, and an enriching conversation.
​Anna is a community builder and the founder of Soft Landing Budapest, which hosts small, gentle gatherings for international women navigating life in Budapest. A repat herself, Anna knows first-hand what it’s like to feel at home in two places, and not quite at home in either.
​ℹ️ Event details
​📍 Okūma Tea House & Social Club | Vörösmarty u. 19, 1074 Budapest
đź“… Friday, 4 December
⏰ 19:30–22:30 (doors open from 19:15)
​19:15 Arrival
​19:35 Grounding tea ceremony
​19:50 Film screening
​21:30 Psychologist-led discussion
​22:20 Wrap-up
​👥 Max. 15 guests
🎟 Early bird: 7,990 HUF (until 22 Nov) \ Standard: 8,990 HUF
🍵 Includes the welcome tea ceremony, herbal tea, screening ticket, psychology circle
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