A COUPLE OF YEARS FOR US: MUSIC, CINEMA, ART AND TRANSITION IN FORMER YUGOSLAVIA
The violent dissolution of Yugoslavia brought about cultural and artistic developments throughout the Balkan area. However, art and music actively contributed to this disintegration, causing changes and fractures at the socio-cultural level well before politics and war violently intervened. Indeed, various art forms played an important role in conveying political ideas, whether they were pro-unitarian, […]
VICTOR PEREZ
Victor Perez, well-known photographer, DoP, and visual effects pro will meet with TSFF Academy film students and the audience. Free Entrance while seats last
(A) OPEN CARDS. A DIALOGUE BETWEEN RIGHTS, CULTURE, AND QUEER CINEMA
“(A)carte scoperte” is proposed as a conversation with noted court-appointed lawyer and LGBTQIA+ rights activist Cathy La Torre; conceived ideally as a cultural “game,” it will feature film critic Giuseppe Gariazzo, curator of TSFF36’s Visioni queer review, and Margherita De Michiel, professor of Russian Language and Literature at the University of Trieste. The “cards” to […]
IMAGINING THE BALKANS. MEMORY AND THE PRESENT IN THE CULTURAL PRODUCTION OF THE JUGOSPHERE
In 1997 Bulgarian scholar Maria Todorova convincingly and innovatively illustrated the mechanisms through which the European eye had always “imagined the Balkans.” What happens, however, when it is the Balkans who imagine themselves, tracing back-often selectively-their past in order to construct the present? Journalist Marina Lalović and writer Elvira Mujčić in conversation with Martina Napolitano […]
WHERE DOES GERMANY GO?
Germany facing early elections: in the postwar period it has happened only three times so far. The country thought to be a beacon of stability (even though it had already been declared the sick man of Europe at the turn of the millennium) is in a phase of profound transformation, politically and economically. From Merkel’s […]
THE EAST OF WHO?
Does it still make sense to talk about post-Soviet space? With the podcasts Cemento (2019-2021) and Kult (2023), Eleonora Sacco and Angelo Zinna have attempted to deconstruct new and old imaginaries of the worlds beyond the Iron Curtain. Starting from a series of trips to the countries of the former USSR, the authors recount how […]
ONCE UPON A TIME IN THE DDR: Five authors from eastern Germany between yesterday and today
It is still not easy to talk about what was the German Democratic Republic, even 34 years after the collapse of the regime that created it. For ardent supporters of Real Socialism, the demise of the GDR resembled the sinking of the mythical Atlantis. In contrast, for those who saw the Berlin Wall as a […]
