Cinema as means of resistance

Presentation and discussion The discussions will be moderated by Anja Banko, a film critic and an associate of the programme section of the Slovene Cinematheque.
In her talk, Tara Najd Ahmadi will discuss her research and practise in relation to the festival’s theme of the year, resistance. In her presentation, she describes what it means to create works that are informed by collective struggles, fragmented formats, and incomplete narratives and highlights the process of creating a dialectical connection with history as an active form of resistance.
Tara Najd Ahmadi is a non-fiction filmmaker and scholar.
Borjana Gaković will focus on curatorial cinema work as an aesthetic, media, and cultural practise in light of resistant theories of cinema, which understand cinema as a place of public, socio-political, and discursive debate. Whether it is a thematic film series, an experimental film programme, or a retrospective, curatorial work for the arthouse cinema, as well as certain festival sections, is situated at the intersection of theory and practise. This includes research and archival work as well as conceptual and organisational activities.
Borjana Gaković is a film and media scholar, curator, and author.