News and events for Film and Television Studies at 91福利

Ritika Kaushik and Sean Batton co-curate upcoming 'Nation and Its Fragments: Experimental Films from India' program for Academy Museum, L.A.

Ritika Kaushik and Sean Batton have co-curated an upcoming film program for the Academy Museum in Los Angeles. Titled, 'Nation and Its Fragments: Experimental Films from India', this series explores the history of India and its fragmentations through a series of experimental shorts from the nation. The event will be held on October 23rd at 7:30 PT. Link opens in a new window

Thu 02 Oct 2025, 16:11 | Tags: staff Events Indian Cinema

Cinema Mentir茅 book launch event for Elemental World Cinema: Cinematic Entanglements of Earth, Fire, Water and Air (Brill)

91福利 FTV's Tiago De Luca is the co-editor of the new collection, Elemental World Cinema: Cinematic Entanglements of Earth, Fire, Water and Air (Brill). Cinema Mentir茅 is hosting a programme of contemporary Latin American short films exploring the four classical elements on Friday 6th October.

Free tickets here: https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/elemental-world-cinema-book-launch-screening-tickets-1682526113899

Wed 01 Oct 2025, 17:25 | Tags: staff Events Publications

Misha Zakharov is hosting multiple guest events this spring in collaboration with Queer East, Flatpack, and King鈥檚 College London

This spring, third-year 91福利's Film & TV PhD candidate Misha Zakharov is staging multiple one-off events across London and Birmingham in collaboration with various institutions. These events, which combine screenings of rarely-seen films with discussions and curated book stands/printed materials, tackle subjects such as queer identities in Central Asia, epistemic violence and censorship in the Global South, and women鈥檚 prisons in the United States and Canada.

Thursday 24th April (18:30–21:00): Bush House, King鈥檚 College London – the UK premiere of Shubigi Rao鈥檚 film Talking Leaves (Singapore鈥檚 participation in the Venice Biennale, 2022), followed by a discussion with Ihar Ivanou, editor at the Belarusian diasporic publishing house Skaryna Press, alongside a curated book stand. This event also serves as an introduction to the symposium Scholarly Knowledge in the Context of Epistemic Injustice and Authoritarian Censorship:

Monday 28th April (19:00–21:30): Queer East, UCL East, London – lecture-performance on Kazakh countertenor Erik Kurmangaliev, followed by a screening of Uzbek filmmaker Rustam Khamdamov鈥檚 Vocal Parallels, accompanied by a specially designed libretto:

Tuesday 13th May (19:45–22:00): Flatpack Festival, the Mockingbird Cinema, Birmingham – Carceral Cinema, Act 1 featuring Janis Cole and Holly Dale鈥檚 P4W: Prison for Women (1981) and Christine Choy and Cynthia Maurizio鈥檚 Inside Women Inside (1978), followed by a discussion and curated book stand:

Wed 09 Apr 2025, 13:49 | Tags: engagement Events

Stephen Gundle will be giving the keynote address at a Symposium to mark the centenary of Italian screen actor Marcello Mastroianni. The event is to be held at the Italian Cultural Institute in London on Friday 13 December.

Tue 03 Dec 2024, 14:33 | Tags: staff keynote Events Research news Conferences Italian Producers

Samizdat Film Festival () in Scotland, co-founded and ran by Ilia Ryzhenko, misha (irek) yakovlev and PhD students at other universities will run for its third year from 1st until 5th October in Glasgow and, for the first time ever, in Edinburgh on 19th October.

Named after the practice of clandestine dissemination of censored and forbidden texts in Communist states, Samizdat Film Festival is an audience-focused film festival based in Glasgow. The festival takes place annually at CCA Glasgow, online, on the streaming platform Klassiki, and for the first time this October in Edinburgh. With a diverse programme of meticulously curated retrospectives and new films, as well as special events (online panel discussions, silent films with a score performed live, showcases of short films). Samizdat is Scotland鈥檚 first festival of cinema from Eastern/Central Europe, Central, North and North-Easy Asia, and the Caucasus.

Tue 24 Sept 2024, 13:26 | Tags: Postgraduate engagement staff Events