Symposium: Decolonizing the (Post-)Soviet Screen
Every year, the goEast Film Festival brings together an international array of speakers for a symposium dedicated to the most vital questions for Eastern European cinema. As part of our partnership with the Festival, we present this year’s edition, titled “Decolonizing the (Post-)Soviet Screen. Across eight panels, festival curators Heleen Gerritsen and Barbara Wurm are joined by scholars, researchers, and filmmakers from across the region to explore the question of decolonization and the ways in which our understandings of the past and future of Eastern European and (post-)Soviet cinema have changed in light of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine.
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(Post-)Soviet cinema through a “decolonial lens”
(Post-)Soviet cinema through a “decolonial lens”: theoretical framework and personal introspection
SPEAKERS: Heleen Gerritsen, Barbara Wurm, Nancy Condee
Kicking off the symposium, curators Heleen Gerritsen and Barbara Wurm introduce and contextualise their approach by speaking about the theore...
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Re-assessing the Soviet legacy: canon, censorship, heritage, and archives
Re-assessing the Soviet legacy: canon, censorship, heritage, and archives
SPEAKERS: Dita Rietuma, Melikset Karapetyan, Ivan Kozlenko
MODERATOR: Barbara WurmThis panel aims to critically approach and reassess Soviet film heritage: its canon, its classics, and its legacy after the collapse of t...
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Belarus: Listapad and the Independent Belarusian Film Academy
Belarus: from the rise and fall of Listapad to the Independent Belarusian Film Academy
SPEAKERS: Igor Soukmanov, Aliaksei Paluyan, Andrei Kutsila
MODERATOR: Barbara WurmThrough discussion of the Listapad Festival and the Independent Belarusian Film Academy, this panel gives insight into the es...
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Ukrainian film history: the past, the present, and an uncertain future
Ukrainian film history: the past, the present, and an uncertain future
SPEAKERS: Daria Badlor, Ivan Kozlenko, Yuliia Kovalenko
MODERATOR: Barbara WurmDaria Badior, Yuliia Kovalenko, and Ivan Kozlenko discuss the role and state of Ukrainian cinema in the midst of the Russian invasion, its recen...
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Post-, Neo-, and De-colonial Central Asia
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Post-, Neo-, and De-colonial Central Asia: human rights activism and collective filmmaking
SPEAKERS: Aïda Adilbek, Mikhail Borodin, Gulzat Egemberdieva, Anisa Sabiri
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Old and new wars: (post-)soviet (anti-)imperialism
Old and new wars: (post-)soviet (anti-)imperialism
SPEAKERS: Giedrius Tamoševičius, Nana Janelidze
MODERATOR: Barbara Wurm and Oksana SarkisovaNana Janelidze, director of Liza, Go On!, a drama about the Georgian-Abkhaz War that received its world premiere at goEast, and Giedrius Tamoševičius, ...
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De/colonization: the myth of “russian culture”
De/colonization: the myth of “russian culture”
SPEAKERS: Vladlena Sandu, Julia Shaginurova
MODERATOR: Barbara WurmVladlena Sandu, director of No Nation Without Culture, and Uzbek-German producer Julia Shaginurova speak about the influence of Russian culture and cultural institutions within the...
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Emancipatory and transnational perspectives
Emancipatory and transnational perspectives
Featuring speakers from all panels
MODERATOR: Barbara WurmAfter a 14-minute video message from Ukrainian filmmaker and writer Oleksiy Radinsky, participants of the symposium, curator Barbara Wurm, and the audience sum up the preceding symposium pan...
