Still from Where Russia Ends (Oleksiy Radynski, 2024)

Friday, October 3 2025

11:00 – 17:00 Workshop at Forum eikones

Saturday, October 4 2025

10:00 – 15:30 Workshop at Forum eikones
17:30 – 20:30 Screening and conversations at neues kino
 

The complete program is available here.

Free admission | Venue: neues kino, Klybeckstrasse 247, 4057 Basel 

How can the legacy of socialist cinema be re-actualised in the anti-colonial struggles of today? How can perspectives from beyond the center be (re)activated — as fragments, counter-narratives, or acts of critical reappropriation? The invited artists and researchers approach the cinematic heritage as a space of contemporary inquiry, political tension, and poetic imagination. 
The event combines screenings and discussions of filmmaking strategies of engaging with archives: from addressing the history of Russian colonial conquest of Siberia to following the perplexing routes of a love story whose traces vanish between Łódź, Morocco, and Israel, via the feminist reclamation of cinematically constructed imperial vision of Soviet Central Asia. 

17:30h
WHERE RUSSIA ENDS, Oleksiy Radynski, UA 2024, 25’, OV/e
WHOSE VOICE IS THIS?, Dana Iskakova, GER/UZB 2024, 14’, OV/e
With Dana Iskakova, Lyuba Knorozok and Olexii Kuchanskyi

19:30h
MIRACULOUS ACCIDENT, Assaf Gruber, DE/AT 2025, 29’, OV/e
With Assaf Gruber and Philip Widmann