If you’ve ever walked out of a slice-of-life movie feeling like a new person ready to conquer life, itching to rekindle broken friendships and take all the curveballs life throws at you head-on, you already know enough about therapist Anupriya Banerjee’s upcoming cinematherapy sessions in the city. This proverbial new person that you feel like for a fleeting few hours after a movie, she says, might just be your true self. “What a movie makes you feel, the characters you relate to, and what it pushes you to act upon says a lot about you,” Banerjee states.

Banerjee oversees an activity at the Kung Fu Panda screening