11th Small Cinemas Conference: Political Imaginaries of Small Cinemas and Cultures, Babeș-Bolyai University, Cluj-Napoca
September 11, 2020
Smaller than small national, 10.00 – 11.00
Chair: Virginás Andrea
Virginás Andrea, Tóth Orsolya, On the Brink of Hungarian and Romanian Small National Cinemas: A Transylvanian Regional Canon?
Farkas Boglárka Angéla, István Fischer and the Minority Identity
Incze Kata, Young Transylvanian Filmmakers between Budapest and Bucharest – a post socialist identity
Populism and the fall of Democracy, 11.30 – 12.30
Chair: Claudiu Turcuș
Zsolt Győri, Autonomy and Populism in the Context of the Hungarian and British New Wave Cinemas
Fernando Torres V., Deconstructing the legitimacy of democracy in Latin American countries through the lens of documentary narratives. A case of study between Ecuador, Brazil and Nicaragua
Jamie Steele, Representations of Political Populism in Lucas Belvaux’s Chez nous/ This is our Land (2017)
Power, violence, and politics of identity 13.30 – 15.00
Chair: Adriana Stan
Lenuta Giukin, Of Inconvenient Women and Neocolonial Adjustments
Alexandra Indira Sanyal, Legacies of Violence | Narratives of Movement
Enrique Lopez Oropeza, The Visual Criticism of Mexican and Latin American Politics in Hollywood cinema
Zebunnisa Hamid, Finding Hope and Despair in the Transnational Cinematic City
September 12, 2020
Regional difference and New Wave Cinemas 10.00 – 11.00
Chair: Zsolt Győri
Yang Yu, The Formation of Tibetan New Wave cinema (2006-Present)
Silvia Roca Baamonde, Marta Pérez Pereiro, Land, identity and sense of belonging. An approach to the Novo Cinema Galego from the perspective of ecocriticism
Cibrán Tenreiro Uzal, Critics as militants and films as events: film criticism and New Galician Cinema
Neoliberalism and Small Film Markets 11.30 – 12.30
Chair: Renata Šukaitytė
Jan Hanzlík, Czech Film Market in the Digital Era: Between Neoliberal and Mercantilist Agendas
Renata Šukaitytė, The Fall of the Communism and the Arrival of Neoliberal Capitalism in My Street (2013) by Marcin Latałło and Rodeo (2018) by Kiur Aarma and Raimo Jõerand
Michal Večeřa, Business across borders: Activities of Austrian company Saschafilm in Czech lands after the collapse of Austria-Hungary
Screening the politics of Eastern Europe 14.00 – 15.00
Chair: Lenuta Giukin
Kalmár György, Off-modern political imaginaries in the small cinemas of Eastern Europe
Balázs Varga, Political imaginaries in Hungarian cinema
Anna Taszycka, Adaptation of Olga Tokarczuk’s literature
Special session, 15.30—16.30
Online talk with the Romanian film director Radu Jude about I Do Not Care If We Go Down in History As Barbarians (2018)