This year’s goEast Symposium (23-26 April 2026) bears the title “Cinematic Strategies of Resistance” and focusses on political, aesthetic and historical forms of resistant film practice in the context of East-West relations and their global repercussions. In the scope of lectures and film screenings, it explores connections between historical perspectives and contemporary debates. The four-day program assembles and examines a highly diverse range of emancipatory film practices – from politization at the German Film and Television Academy Berlin (DFFB) in the pivotal period around 1968, through the upheavals of the transitional period of the late 1980s and early 1990s, to more recent protest movements in Belarus, Ukraine, Nigeria and Chile.
The symposium is led and was curated by Borjana Gaković.
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