Complete Programme (Timetable+Abstracts+Bios)
For each day, there are two strands of events that run parallel to each other:
Strand One (Sibson Lecture Theatre 2)
Strand Two (Ida Lupino Cinema)
Please note that the last panel of Strand Two takes place in Sibson Seminar Room
Day 1 (17th April)
9.30-10.00
Conference Welcome
(Kaveh Abbasian, Tobias Heinrich & Alex Marlow-Mann)
10.00-11.3
Panel 1 – Gender, Identity & Sexuality
Conceptualising Migrant Women’s Cinema in Europe (Bengisu Kepsutlu)
Veiled Space: Culture, Identity and the Niqab in Layla M (Rebecca Feghali)
‘You’re just watching the ocean. You’re not even looking at me.’ Waves and Failed Migration in Mati Diop’s Atlantics (Lydia Tuan)
11.30-12.00
Refreshments
(Sibson Foyer)
12.00-1.30
Panel 2 – Participatory filmmaking
Participatory Filmmaking in the Refugee Narrative: Interrogating Methodologies, Agency, and Sustainability (Zozan Yasar)
Me Too: A documentary Created Collectively and Anonymously by Queer Migrants in Lesvos Island (Nagehan Uskan)
Io, capitano (Virginia Jewiss)
1.30-2.30
Lunch
(Sibson Foyer)
2.30-4.0
Panel 3 – Iranian Women Filmmakers in the Diaspora: Affective Responses to Misinformation
Born in Evin: A Bridge Between the Political and the Personal (Tania Ahmadi)
From Immigration to a Female-led Revolution: Iranian Women Making Experimental Documentaries (Shahrzad Ghobadlou)
‘Transit’, a Perilous Journey to the UK: Khoshnoudi’s View on Afghan Refugees (Amin Pakparvar)
4.00-4.30
Refreshments
(Sibson Foyer)
4.30-5.30
Keynote
Far-flung Families in Contemporary European Cinema (Daniela Berghahn)
6.00-8.00
Special Screening (Strand Two)
10.00-11.30
Screening 1
Fifteenth Person (Alireza Behbahani) (40 min)
Nummer 11 (Azad Larki) (13 min)
11.30-12.00
Refreshments
(Sibson Foyer)
12.00-1.30
Screening 2
The Blood and the Border – Rituals of the Khyrim People (Wanphrang K. Diengdoh) (52 min)
No One Will Shed Tears (Katarzyna Lukasik) (10 min)
1.30-2.30
Lunch
(Sibson Foyer)
2.30-4.00
Screening 3
Rerooting + the Post Collective discussion (Elli Vassalou) (19min)
Waiting + reflection on collective practice (Ioanna Manoussaki-Adamopoulou) (30-40min)
4.00-4.30
Refreshments
(Sibson Foyer)
4.30-5.30
Keynote (Strand One)
6.00-8.00
Special Screening
Purple Sea (2008)
Introduction + Q&A with filmmakers Amel Alzakout & Khaled Abdulwahed [online]
Day 2 (18th April)
9.30-11.00
Panel 4 – Decolonisation
Smuggling Memories: The Politics of Remembrance in Rabah Ameur-ZaÏmeche’s Smugglers’ Songs (Maxime Bey-Rozet)
Unveiling the Political Economy of Migration in Jumana Manna’s Wild Relatives: A Border Abolitionist and Decolonial Perspective (Hera Lorandos)
Migrants’ Performative Filmmaking in the Decolonization of Border Landscapes (Keina Espiñeira)
11.00-11.30
Refreshments
(Sibson Foyer)
11.30-1.00
Panel 5 – Biographical perspectives on migrant filmmakers and performers
Beyond the ‘Accented’ Canon: the Cosmopolitan Trajectories of Bujar Alimani (Philip E. Phillis)
‘I am Afro Greek’: The Rise of Black Greek Performers in Contemporary Greek Cinema and Television (Olga Kourelou)
Diasporic Filmmaking and Public Funding in Flanders: the Case of Kadir Ferati Balci (Alexander De Man)
1.00-2.30
Lunch
(Sibson Foyer)
2.30-3.30
Roundtable
Khaled Abdulwahed, Amel Alzakout, Daniela Berghahn & Arash T. Riahi
3.30-4.00
Refreshments
(Sibson Foyer)
4.00-6.00
Special Screening (Strand Two)
8.00
Conference Dinner
9.30-11.00
Screening 4
The Ultimate Guide to Listening (Young People Together) (10min)
Let’s Call Her Adriana + Far Is Here (Barbara Oettinger) (10min + 6min)
Recognizing and Deconstructing the ‘Humanitarian Gaze’ in Refugee Documentaries: A Videographic Paper (Qinrang Wang) (12min)
11.00-11.30
Refreshments
(Sibson Foyer)
11.30-1.00
Screening 5
Only Voice Remains: Making Collective Prophecies (Only Voice Remains) (60 min)
The Sparrow Is Free (Niki Kohandel) (14 min)
1.00-2.30
Lunch
(Sibson Foyer)
2.30-3.30
Roundtable (Strand One)
3.30-4.00
Refreshments
(Sibson Foyer)
4.00-6.00
Special Screening
For a Moment, Freedom (2008)
Introduction + Q&A with filmmaker Arash T. Riahi
8.00
Conference Dinner
(venue t.b.c.)
Day 3 (19th April)
9.30-11.00
Panel 6 – Archives of Migration
Trans-Mediterranean Musical Videography: the Harraga Songs of Small-boat Migration (Ed Emery)
Migrant Documentary Filmmakers beyond the Archive of Migrant Memories in Italy (Giovanna Faleschini Lerner)
What Do Pictures Deserve? Archive, Evidence, and Essay Film (Boris Ružić)
11.00-11.30
Refreshments
(Sibson Foyer)
11.30-1.00
Panel 7 – Conceptualising Migrant Filmmaking
Returning Is Leaving (Valentin Via)
Migrants’ Film Practice: ‘Embodied Knowledge’? (Anthony Blanc)
The Disordering of Borders: Transgressions of Common Migration Narratives in Adú (Salvador Calvo, 2020) and La jaula de oro (Diego Quemada-Díez, 2013) (Anna-Lena Hauser)
1.00-2.30
Lunch
(Sibson Foyer)
2.30-4.00
Panel 8 – German Migrant Cinema
Transnational Memory in Recent Turkish German Cinema: How Do Memories Resonate Across Borders? (Pınar Yıldız)
The Possibility of Challenging the Dominant Narrative: The Case of Burhan Qurbani’s Berlin Alexanderplatz (Ewa Fiuk)
Two Lenses Looking at Refugees: German Mainstream Media vs. Afghan Filmmakers (Hamid Nazemi Yazdi)
(Post)-Migrant Queers of Today: Sexuality and Migration in Faraz Shariat’s Futur Drei (Kamil Zapasnik)
4.00-4.30
Closing Address
(Kaveh Abbasian, Tobias Heinrich & Alex Marlow-Mann)
9.30-11.00
Screening 6
Rajavyöhyke 1947: Provocations on Belonging and Displacement (Kirsten Adkins) (40min)
Our Italy / La nostra Italia (Valentina Ippolito) (15min)
11.00-11.30
Refreshments
(Sibson Foyer)
11.30-1.00
Screening 7
On the Roads of Freedom (Maria Ghalvazi &Shiva Ghalvazi) (35min)
Seven Minutes and Thirty One Seconds & Gassi Gassi (Solmaz Gholami) (12min + 11min)
1.00-2.30
Lunch
(Sibson Foyer)
2.30-4.00
[Sibson Seminar Room]
Panel 9 – The Gaze
The ‘Third ‘Eye of the Dislocated Filmmaker: Two Conversations with Egyptian-British Director Khaled El Hagar (Ruxandra Trandafoiu & Roger Shannon)
Reflecting the Gaze. Les Sauteurs and the Subversion of Surveillance (Florian Lippert)
Dismantling Othering Gaze Dynamics. The Case Study of Lala (Ludovica Fales)
4.00-4.30
Closing Address (Strand One)