18:00 Via Dolorosa | Oraib Toukan | 20 min | Germany, Jordan

Footage shot by the late photographer and cinematographer, Hani Jawharieh, slowed-down, studied, and re-assembled with material from where it was found—piles of film reels discarded by former Soviet cultural centers in Amman, Jordan, accompanied with commentary by literary and film scholar Nadia Yaqub. Via Dolorosa (Latin for the Arabic 'Way of Suffering') is itself a processional route that Jawharieh filmed in his birth city of Jerusalem.

Oraib Toukan is an artist, writer and educator. She is currently a EUME scholar at the Forum Transregionale Studien, Berlin and was a Clarendon scholar at the University of Oxford, Ruskin School of Art where she completed her PhD in 2019. Until 2015 she was head of the Arts Division and Media Studies Program at Bard College at Al Quds University, Palestine.

18:30 - 19:30 - Roundtable | Marta Baradić (Kino Katarina), Jakob Krese, Karla Crnčević

Marta Baradić is an initiator of Kino Katarina – an open-air feminist cinema project. Kino Katarina started in 2016 as a guerrilla pop-up cinema in which screenings were organised along the coast of the Pula Bay (Croatia). She is a culture worker and currently a PhD candidate at the Department of Gender Studies at the Central European University (Vienna), where she works on the history of women’s activism. As an activist Baradić mostly focuses on the labour conditions in the field of culture, as well as culture as a public good and public space.

Jakob Krese grew up between former Yugoslavia and Germany. He studied camera and directing at Babelsberg, Havana, and Sarajevo. Since 2018, he has worked as a cinematographer, director, screenwriter, and producer of creative documentaries. His films have been screened at internationally recognized festivals such as IFFR Rotterdam, Vision du Réel, Palm Springs, and Busan, winning numerous awards. He is working on his second feature-length film The Gods Must Be Mistaken.

19:45 - 20:30 - The Freedom Giver | Margaux Chalançon

This performative reading delves into the complexities of restoring The Freedom Giver, a 1989 film by Kais Al Zubaidi, produced by the Lebanese National Front of Resistance, documenting the establishment of the resistance in Lebanon against the Israeli invasion after the 1982 Beirut siege. Combining entries from the restoration diary Margaux Chalancon kept while restoring the film with excerpts from the film, the performance goes beyond technical processes to examine the emotional responses, ethical considerations, and challenges encountered while reviving this film. Through excerpts read aloud and visuals showcasing the restoration's impact on the images, the audience (with or without prior knowledge of film restoration or Lebanese history) will witness the often-overlooked emotional weight of working with politically charged and graphic images, and how these emotions influence the preservation process itself.

Margaux Chalançon is a film archivist, restorer, and post-producer. After several years of post-production in Beirut, she specialized in archiving at the EQZE master’s program in San Sebastian, often combining an interest in archives with post-production experience.