Café Europe Westbalkan: "Mirroring society/editing reality* - film art in the Western Balkans"
A cooperation between Diagonale - Festival of Austrian film and Land Steiermark
Land Steiermark and Diagonale - Festival of Austrian film present the online event
Café Europa Westbalkan: "Mirroring society/editing reality* - film art in the Western Balkans"
Thursday, 10th February 2022, 18:00h
Guests on the panel:
- Linda Llulla GASHI, Executive director of DokuFest Prizren, Kosovo (International Documentary and Short Film Festival)
- Senad HALILBAŠIĆ, Austrian screenwriter ("Korida", "7500"), dramaturge and theatre scholar of Bosnian origin
Words of welcome:
- Christopher DREXLER, Styrian State Minister for Culture, Europe, Sports
- Sebastian HÖGLINGER and Peter SCHERNHUBER, Diagonale directorate
Moderated by Armina GALIJAŠ, Centre for Southeast European Studies at Graz University
Plus: View the documentary feature "Korida", co-written by panellist Senad Halilbašić, per video on demand after the discussion -
Registration required for the online event (ZOOM webinar) and video stream "Korida".
"And ... action!" On 10th February 2022, the discussion series "Café Europa Westbalkan" will enter its second year - this time, due to COVID, exclusively online and supplemented by a special experience from the repertoire of Austrian film.
The third edition of "Café Europa Westbalkan" is a cooperation between Diagonale - Festival of Austrian film and Land Steiermark and focuses on (film) art and its significance for socio-political developments in the Western Balkans and Styria.
Our (international) guests on the panel: Linda Llulla Gashi, Executive Director of DokuFest Prizren (International Documentary and Short Film Festival, Kosovo), and Senad Halilbašić, Austrian screenwriter, dramaturge and theatre scholar of Bosnian origin. Moderated by Armina Galijas from the Centre for Southeast European Studies at Graz University, they will address, among other questions, the issue of how (film) art accompanies, comments on and criticises social processes, and can contribute to a society's identification with itself.
Panellist Senad Halilbašić will appear in a "double role", since he is also the scriptwriter of the film "Korida", which the audience can stream via the Kino VOD Club using an electronic voucher code after the online discussion.
As the contingent of voucher codes is limited, we request online registration - the principle of "first come, first serve" applies. Registered participants will receive the voucher code per email two days before the event.
More information:
=> www.europa.steiermark.at/europastrategie
=> The Western Balkan focus of Land Steiermark 2021
*) The title refers to Javed Akhtar, an Indian poet, lyricist, screenwriter and political activist who compares film as mirror of society and editor of reality.