[Filmfestivalresearch] Film festival research @NECS Lisboa

[Valck, M. de (Marijke)]

Dear all,

We are looking forward to a sunny NECS conference in Lisbon with a lot of wonderful work on film festivals. For those around, we hope to see you in the panels, workshops, and the Film Festival Research workgroup meeting on Friday June 20  at 13:40 in room G.1.3. For those interested in what’s going on, please find an overview of film festival research @NECS Lisboa below.

Best wishes,
Skadi and Marijke

NECS 2025 LISBON
19 June Thursday 2025

A 9:00 – 10:40

A10 | Disability, Neurodivergence and Spectatorship
Chair | Theresa Heath

Theresa Heath (Loughborough University, London) | Journeying Towards Disability: Alternative Reality Exhibitions at Film Festivals
Chiara Checcaglini (University of Urbino Carlo Bo) & Stefania Antonioni (University of Urbino Carlo Bo) | Navigating Healing, Grief, and Identity: The Journey of 'Doc – _Nelle tue mani' and Its American Remake 'Doc'
Christine Thoer (University of Quebec in Montreao) | How I Understood and Accepted That I Was Autistic. Journey and Viewing Experiences of Autistic Women

A14 | Women’s Film Cultures and Festivals
Chair | Monica Talarczyk

Rosanna Maule (Concordia University, Montreal) | The Long Journey of Women’s Film Festivals
Rita Capucho (Universidade Lusófona) & Carla Cerqueira (Universidade Lusófona) | Olhares do Mediterrâneo: A Space for Feminist Activism?
Yijingzi (Mirror) Huang (Monash University) | Navigating Feminist Practices in Chinese Documentary Filmmaking: Gender, Memory, and the Journey of Representation
Dagmara Rode (University of Lodz) | “Films for discussion”: uncovering the legacy of the feminist documentary media of the feminist seventies

B 11:00 – 12:40

Workshop B2 | Site-based Videographic Methods for Film Festival Research
Kevin B. Lee (Università della Svizzera italiana), Donatella della Ratta (John Cabot University Rome), Chiara Grizzaffi (IULM University Milan), Evelyn Kreutzer (Università della Svizzera italiana) & Silvia Cipelletti (Università della Svizzera italiana)

B9 | War, Conflict, and Displacement
Chair |

Daniel Fairfax (Goethe-Universität Frankfurt) | Montage and Solidarity: Strategies for Representing Palestinian Resistance from Here and Elsewhere to Leila and the Wolves
Hudson Moura (Toronto Metropolitan University) | Between Displacement and Belonging: Political Oppression, Memory, and the Image-Exile in Walter Salles’s Cinematic Journeys
Maryam Ghorbankarimi (Lancaster University) | Mediating Realities: The Role of UK Palestine Film Festivals in Navigating Conflict

C 14:00 – 15:20

C3 | Film Festivals: Navigating the Fraught Politics of Cinematic Circulation
Supported by | Film Festival Research
Chair | Rosanna Maule (Concordia University, Montreal)

Dunja Jelenkovic (University Ca’ Foscari of Venice & Concordia University) |Film Festivals as Platforms of Exchange and Wartime Diplomacy: WWII, Yugoslavia, Ukraine
Ger Zielinski (Toronto Metropolitan University) | On Errant Film Festivals at the Intersection of Cycling and Environmentalism
Fernanda Alves Salgado (Concordia University, Montreal) | Curating Black films as upheaval, care and performance
Elena Razoglova (Concordia University, Montreal) | Anticolonialism Then and Now: The Resurgence of Afro-Asian Film Festivals in the Present

C9 | Festivals, Circulation, and Cine-Geopolitics
Chair | Yongli Li

Yongli Li (College of the Holy Cross) | Chinese film distribution in East and West Germany in the 1980s
Pablo Salas Tonello (Filmuniversität Babelsberg Konrad Wolf) | Bridging Gaps: Festivals and Regional Platforms in Latin American Film Circulation
Katja Hettich (Bauhaus University Weimar) | Journeys of Transdifference: Spectatorship and the Phenomenology of European Belonging
Claudia Fiorito (University of Padua) | Hidden Journeys of Cold War Cinema. Artkino’s Unofficial Paths of Soviet Film Distribution in the US


20 June Friday 2024

D 9:20 – 11:00

D4 | Film Festivals as Educational Spaces: Bridging Programming, Pedagogy, and Practice
Supported by Film Festival Research
Chair | Marijke de Valck

Marijke de Valck (Utrecht University) | From Programming to Film Education: Cinekid and the Educational Turn in Film Festivals
Lesley-Ann Dickson (Queen Margaret University) | Towards a Typology of Non-Formal Film Education at UK Youth Film Festivals: Mapping Pedagogies, Practice, and Participation
Federica Carbone (Sacred Heart Catholic University of Milan) | Spaces of Exchange: Innovation and Education at the Gifonni Film Festival
Minerva Campos Rabadán (University of Castilla-La Mancha) Bridging Theory and Practice at the Berlinale: The role of Academic Teaching staff in Connecting Festivals to Film Education

Film festival workgroup meeting: 13:40 – 14:10 (room G. 1.3)

E 14:20 – 16:00

Workshop E2 | A practical guide on how to build and publish your dataset and data visualizations
Aida Vallejo (University of the Basque Country UPV/EHU), María Paz Peirano (UAntwerpen), Skadi Loist (Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU)), Terézia Porubčanská (Masaryk University) & Thomas Schick (Film University Babelsberg)

F 16:20 – 18:00

F8 | Film Festivals in the Post-Yugoslav Space as Spaces of Memory Discovery, Navigation, and Migration
Chair | Jake Primorac

Boris Ružić (University of Rijeka) | Film Festival and Its Vicissitudes: Seeing Migration
Jasmine Šepetavc_(University of Ljubljana) | “The Other Queers”: Discovering peripheral Southeastern and Eastern European queer memories through LGBTQ+ film festivals
Natalija Majsova (University of Ljubljana) | Journeys that implicate subjects: Festival memory politics in the post-Yugoslav space
Respondent | Jaka Primorac (Institute for Development and International Relations (IRMO))

Respondent | Jaka Primorac (Institute for Development and International Relations (IRMO))

21 June Saturday

G 9:00 – 10:40

Workshop G1 | Uncovering the joy of less. A workshop
Judith Keilbach (Utrecht University), Marijke de Valck (Utrecht University), María A. Vélez Serna (University of Stirling) & Ger Zelinski (Toronto Metropolitan University)




Dr. Marijke de Valck | Associate Professor of Film and Media Studies | Department of Media and Culture Studies | Utrecht University | Kromme Nieuwegracht 20, 3512 EV Utrecht | The Netherlands | Room T1.12 | +31 30 2538162  | m.devalck at uu.nl<mailto:m.devalck at uu.nl> | www.uu.nl/medewerkers/MdeValck<http://www.uu.nl/medewerkers/MdeValck> | www.filmfestivalresearch.org<http://www.filmfestivalresearch.org/>


Open Access
Marijke de Valck and Antoine Damiens (eds.) Rethinking Film Festivals in the Pandemic Era and After<https://www-springer-com.utrechtuniversity.idm.oclc.org/book/9783031141706>.  Palgrave Macmillan, 2023

New film festivals reviews in NECSUS Autumn 2024 #enough. Read here<https://necsus-ejms.org/portfolio/autumn-2024_enough/>.

New books in the Framing Film Festivals book series:

  *   Lidia Peralta Garcia and Lhoussain Simour, Migration Film Festivals<https://link.springer.com/book/10.1007/978-3-031-63693-6>: Social Functions, Expectations and Challenges. Palgrave Macmillan 2025
  *   Burcu Dabak Özdemir, Experiencing National Culture Abroad<https://www-springer-com.utrechtuniversity.idm.oclc.org/book/9783031732973>: The Study of Turkish Film Festivals in Germany. Palgrave Macmillan, 2024.
  *   Teck Fann Goh, Japanese Film Festivals in the Asia-Pacific<https://www-springer-com.utrechtuniversity.idm.oclc.org/book/9783031720369>: Cultural Diplomacy, Practices and Audiences. Palgrave Macmillan, 2024.