An unexpected wealth of knowledge is hidden in (fiction) film in a way that hardly any other art form can, it involves a variety of forms of expression, just as it includes a variety of messages, which each viewer can also decipher in his own way. The complex language of cinema requires special attention, but if we learn to read beneath its surface, we will find traces of the human desire for meaning and transcendence everywhere, and we recognize our destiny in the stories and characters on the screen. Processes of identification and transference occurring simultaneously at different levels - physical, mental and spiritual - offer a wide range of approaches and perspectives of existence - educational or psychotherapeutic approach - depending on the interests or symptoms of the person. The viewer learns everyday, and at the same time through actively guided and empathically involved attention to the film story, consciously and differently perceive his own reality. This can give him a new approach to his own biography and the problematic situations of his existence, which can also open up new prospects for therapeutic intervention in reflection and in talking about filmmaking. Psychoanalysis and cinema In 1895, the Lumière brothers showed in Paris, the first silent film. That same year, Sigmund Freud founded psychoanalysis in Vienna with his Studies on Hysteria, and five years later his major theoretical work, The Interpretation of Dreams, was published. Both dreams and film live primarily in visual language. It is closer to feelings, fantasies, and the unconscious than the spoken word. In dreams, as in films, the normal laws of space, time and logical representation are suspended. Anything is possible: cut, reverse, shift, compression, change of tempo. The unconscious knows no time. Dreams and films are creative achievements that excite, delight or disturb. These are the great themes of humanity that fascinate filmmakers and audiences: love and hate, guilt and redemption, happiness and sadness, strength and powerlessness, longing and passion. In psychoanalysis, the interpretation of dreams is considered the royal road to the unconscious. A psychoanalytic look at film searches for hidden meaning, film by film, and thus opens up additional possibilities for interpretation..