Online Conference | Film O’Clock International Festival #6
📅 April 17, 2026 | 🕒 15:00 (Bucharest time – EEST, UTC+3)
⏱ Duration: 75 minutes

This online conference brings together film archivists, researchers, and cultural practitioners from Africa and Europe to reflect on how film heritage travels, transforms, and continues to speak across multiple cultural and institutional landscapes.
Grounded in the curatorial and screening contexts of Film O’Clock International Festival, including How Long? (South Africa), My Wife and the Dog (Egypt) and a centenary tribute to Andrzej Wajda through The Maids of Wilko, the discussion begins from concrete cinematic gestures and expands toward broader questions of circulation and meaning. It asks how films shift when they cross borders and what happens to their histories when they are reactivated in new cultural frames.
At its core, the panel explores the fragile and flexible space between archives, film collections, and present-day audiences. Heritage is understood here not as something preserved in silence, but as something continually brought back into circulation- through programming, institutional dialogue, and shared curatorial attention between African and European contexts.
The conversation is guided by questions such as: How do films from different historical and political worlds enter international circulation today? What practices shape the way they are seen, translated, and understood in different regions? And how can collaborations between African and European institutions open up more layered and open ways of reading film heritage?
Rather than treating heritage as a fixed canon, the panel approaches it as a living process- one where memory, authorship, and context are constantly renegotiated as films move between archives, festivals, and audiences.
Situated within Film O’Clock International Festival’s broader research focus on African–European cinematic dialogue, the event follows the trajectories of films as they circulate across institutions and geographies, generating new meanings at each encounter.

Participation is free upon registration. Please complete the form by April 16 to receive the access link.

Registration form: https://forms.gle/eixeCwb1fxZwaTB4A