The conference will include more presentations on the theme “The Great War: Our Story” and a series of film screenings.
The third International Conference on the Balkan Cinema will focus on materials shot both by filmmakers from the Balkan region and from outside of it, in order to show the connections and the differences between these narrations on war, which created “our story”. The term “our” may refer to self-reflexivity in the context of an image from the Balkans as being both a unified and dispersed space, as well as a variety of identities: victims or criminals, civilians and soldiers, women and children in destroyed cities and in the deserted rural area, men at war, even if we speak of the generations that participated directly or the following generations.
The program “The Great War: Our Story”
Tuesday, May 8, 2018
10.00
Welcome speech of Professor
Laurențiu Damian, president of the Union of Romanian Filmmakers (UCIN)
Welcome speech of Adrian-Silvan Ionescu, director of ‘G.Oprescu’ Institute of Art History
10.15
Representation, Identity, Diversity Panel 1
Chaired by Dominique Nasta
Betul Balaban (Turkey)- Comedy, Safest Way Out: Greekness and the primordial “other”, Turks in Nikos Perakis’
Loafing and Camouflage: Sirens in the Aegean
10.30
Vesi Vuković (Bosnia and Hertzegovina)- Treacherous Women: Representation of Female Characters as Traitors of the Nation in Partisan- themed Yugoslav New Film and Black Wave Cinema
10.45
Mihaela Grancea and Olga Grădinaru (Romania)- Mythologization of Ecaterina Teodoroiu in Romanian Movies
11.00
Adrian-Silvan Ionescu (Romania)- The Uniform as Key Element for War Movies. A Critical Approach
11.15
Yılmaz Özdil (Turkey)- La représentation de la guerre dans le cinéma kurde
11.30
Q & A
11.45
Coffee break
12.00
Keynote Speaker
Prof. dr Nevena Daković
Faculty of Dramatic Arts, University of Arts, Belgrade
Transmedia Storytelling of the Great War: Stanislav Krakov
12.45
Q & A
13.00
(Our) Stories to be Told
Chaired by Lydia Papadimitriou
Victoria Baltag (UK)- European Avant-Garde Cinema in the Interwar Era: The application of film theories to practice. Study case: Benjamin Fondane
13.15
Dana Duma (Romania) – Metaphors of War in Romanian Animation Films
13.30
Tanja Jurković (Croatia)- “Yugo nostalgia” and Horror Films in ex-Yugoslavia
13.45
Mircea Deacă (Romania)- European Studies, Faculty of Letters, University of Bucharest- Culture of violence in the New Romanian Cinema. The influence of Michael Haneke aesthetics
14.00
Dragan Batanchev (Serbia) – 50 Years since 1968: A War Film Reflecting the Student Protests
14.15
Q & A
14.30- 16.00
Lunch break
16.00
Framing WW1 Panel
Chaired by Savaș Arslan
Roxana Cuciumeanu (Romania) – “The Dregs of Bucharest, Wretches Picked Up Off the Streets and Cafés”: Framing of Wartime Experience in Through the Ashes of the Empire (Andrei Blaier, 1976)
16.15
Petar Kardjilov (Bulgaria) - Cinematographic activity in the Romanian territory of Dobrudja during its conquest by the Bulgarian troops during the First World War (1916-1918)
16.30
Adrian Leonte - Verbal Information vs. Iconic Information in the film
Duty and Sacrifice
17.00
Dinu-Ioan Nicula (Romania) – WW1 in Romanian Literary Screen Adaptations
17.15
Q & A
17.30
Coffee break
Wednesday, May 9, 2018
10.00
Film Archives Panel: Method, Model, Media
Chaired by Dana Duma
Aleksandra Milovanović (Serbia)- The Great War and Archives: Questioning the Future of Audiovisual History in Serbia
10.15
Biljana Mitrović (Serbia) and Sandra Nikolić – The Great War and Serbian Film: Archives and Cultural Memory
10.45
Mihai Fulger - Balkan Cinema Ritrovato
11.00
Branka Pavlović (Serbia)- Perceptions of War: WW1 in visual arts
11.15
Q & A
11.30
Coffee break
11.45
Keynote Speaker
Prof. dr. Dominique Nasta
Université Libre de Bruxelles
Early European Narrratives around World War I and their Impact on Balkan Film Style
12.15
Q & A
12.30
Remembering War(s) Panel
Chaired by
Manuela Cernat
Melinda Blos-Jáni (Romania)- Photographic Passages into the Memory of the Second World War
12.45
Tamara Kolarić (Croatia) – Remembering the 'Homeland War': Films Dealing with the Past
13.00
Ingrid Lewis (Ireland)- Aligning “Our Story” to Mainstream Histories: Women in Balkan Holocaust Cinema
13.15
Iulia Voicu (Romania) – Ghosts of the war in found footage cinema
13.30
Q & A
13.45- 15.00
Lunch break
15.00
Interwar and WW2 Panel
Chaired by
Marian Țuțui
Manuela Cernat (Romania) – Romania on the Eastern Front
15.15
Igor Pop Trajkov (Macedonia) – The Beginnings of the Cinema Authors in the History Productions
15.30
Alex Forbes (UK) – Doomed Souls and the War that Won`t Die
15.45
Rosen Spasov (Bulgaria) – Bulgarian specialized cinema periodicals during World War II
16.00
Q & A
16.15
Coffee break
16.30
Representation, Identity, Diversity Panel 2
Chaired by Nevena Daković
Savaș Arslan (Turkey) – Documenting Early Cinema through French Film Magazines
16.45
Elena Dulgheru (Romania) – Desemantisations of national history in Romanian cinema after 1989
17.00
Boris Petrović (France) – Usage of mythical narrative in the framing of “our” side vs “theirs”
17.15
Marian Țuțui (Romania) – Four visions on the Balkans from down under
17.30
Igor Stardelov (Macedonia) – Refugees and Film. A Typical Balkan Topic
17.45
Q & A
Program proiecții de film
Tuesday, May 8, 2018
17.45
Special screening
Ion Heliade Rădulescu Amphiteater
Celebration of the Union with Bessarabia/ Serbarile Unirii Basarabiei (1918, Romania, d. Constantin Ivanovici, documentary, mute, 6 min.)
War and Peace in the Balkans (2015, Greece, directed by Andreas Apostolidis, documentary, 57 minutes, English voice over, Romanian subtitles)
Wednesday, May 9, 2018
Romanian Cinematheque
“Jean Georgescu” Cinema Theatre
2 Eforie Street
18.00
Documentary Gems in the collection of the Romanian National Film Archive (67 min.)
Scenes from the Life of Vlachs in the Pindus/ Scene din viața aromânilor din Pind (1907-1912, d. Milton and Ienache Manakia, mute, documentary, 6 minutes)
A Journey to Turkish Macedonia/ Excursie in Macedonia turcească (1911, d. Milton and Ienache Manakia, 7 minutes, )
Războiul nostru/ Our War (1920, Romania, d. Constantin Ivanovici, Georges Ercole, Tudor Posmantir, documentary, mute, 9 min.)
The Visit of the Russian Imperial Family in Constantza/ Vizita familiei imperiale ruse la Constanta (1914, Romania, d. Gheorghe Ionescu, Nicolae Barbelian, Victor de Bon, Constantin Ivanovici, Svoboda, documentary, mute, 25 min.)
The Country of Motzi/ Țara Motilor (1939, Romania, d. Paul Calinescu, documentary, special award in Venice, Romanian voice over, 20 min)
20.00
6 Old Romanian Fiction Films (96 min.)
Ecaterina Teodoroiu (1930, Romania, d. Ion Niculescu- Bruna, war, espionage, WW1, 40 min.)
Duty and Sacrifice/ Datorie și sacrificiu (1926, Romania, d. Ion Șahighian, war melodrama, WW1, 21 min.)
Lache in the Harem/ Lache în harem (1927, Romania, d. Marcel Blossoms, Vasile D. Ionescu, comedy, 10 min.)
Gogulica Railwayman/ Gogulica cheferist (1929, d. Cornel Dumitrescu, comedy, 9 min.)
This is Life/ Așa e viata (1928, d. Marin Iorda, comedy, 7 min.)
Haplea (1928, Romania, d. Marin Iorda, animation, 9 min.)
