Past events - film screenings and festivals

Date: 11 October 2022

Venue: 50 George Square

Guest speaker: Gabriel Bonammy (University of St Andrews)

Organiser: Edouard Notte (University of Edinburgh)

In brief: An exclusive screening of the French documentary Ruptures (2021), which was followed by a Q&A and discussion with Economics and Geography student Gabriel Bonammy on the film's message, as well as working alongside director Arthur Gosset, and organising screenings across Europe.

The event was co-organised with Institut Français Écosse in Edinburgh, and the film was shown in French with English subtitles.

Date: 15 March 2018

Venue: 40 George Square

In brief: A screening of the play Evgenii Onegin staged and filmed before a live audience in Moscow's venerable Vakhtangov Theatre. The play was shown in Russian with English subtitles.

Date: 30 June 2017

Venue: 50 George Square

In brief: A screening of 'Chitai, chitai', the debut film from Evgenii Koriakovskii, prolific Russian actor. The film was shown in Russian, and was followed by a Q&A session.

Events series: The World After Fukushima

Date: 13 September 2017

Venue: 50 George Square, University of Edinburgh

Organiser: Dr Fabien Arribert-Narce

In brief: The first in a series of events on the Fukushima nuclear disaster of 2011 and the future of nuclear energy. A screening of the 2015 documentary 'Nuclear Lands' (Kami Productions, Arte France), followed by a Q&A with director, Kenichi Watanabe, and scriptwriter, Michaël Ferrier. Generously supported by the Japan Foundation Endowment Committee.

Date: 24 September 2016

Venue: The Princess Dashkova Russian Centre, 14 Buccleuch Place

Guest speaker: Ekaterina Eremenko

In brief: A screening of the new film 'The Discrete Charm of Geometry' (2015) by Ekaterina Eremenko, a Russian film director. The event began with an introduction from Ekaterina, and ended with a Q&A session.

Date: 9 September 2016

Venue: 50 George Square, University of Edinburgh

In brief: MARCH (2015, 40 minutes) documents March of Women, a large-scale public art event in Bridgeton, Glasgow held on the eve of International Women’s Day 2015. Through a series of interviews with a wide variety of the participating women, the film considers the gap in documenting women’s history, and points to the resounding importance of having a female generation to both honour and draw inspiration from. A screening of the film was included in the programme of the Recovering Women’s Past conference in September 2016. It was introduced by Professor Anna Birch, Artistic Director of March of Women, and followed by a debate moderated by Professor Gina Luria Walker (New School, New York).

Related research: Learning to see the power of women

Date: 2 July 2013

Venue: Filmhouse Cinema

Organisers: Department of European Languages and Cultures and Film Studies, University of Edinburgh

In brief: As part of the European Cinema Research Forum 2013, two departments in the School of Literatures, Languages and Cultures hosted a screening of Ghosted (2009, dir. Monika Treut). The film was followed by a discussion between Dr Leanne Dawson (German Studies) and the director Monika Treut.