Professional festival network meeting – round table: At the centre of the margin

Resisting and exhibiting independent cinema in the early 21st century

Moderator Donatello Fumarola

panellists

Mateja Zorn (Kinoatelje, Gorizia-Nova Gorica), Gianmarco Torri (Mostra Internazionale del Nuovo Cinema, Pesaro, Italy), Veton Nurkollari (Dokufest, Prizren, Kosovo), Lindi Dedek (Niesse Film Festival, Poland-Germany-Czech Republic), Eva Demeter (Alexandre Trauner Art/Film Festival, Szolnok, Hungary), Tania Hladnik (Kino Otok, Slovenia).

THE ROUND TABLE inaugurates a dialogue on cultural policies and political culture that we propose and wish to support with events that are central in terms of their originality and at the same time on the margins of today's festival scene, starting with the mother of all independent film festivals (Pesaro, which has a glorious past and a very lively present), up to the most innovative current experiences such as Dokufest in Kosovo. Each will show us something of its identity, its proposal, and together we will try to build a shared path of cinematic practices, knowledge, and desires.