SYMPOSIUM

OMAS, BABAS, BABUSHKAS – GENDER & AGEING IN EUROPEAN CINEMA 

Europe is ancient – yet the ageing of the population is manifesting quite differently in Eastern and Western Europe. Similarly, the process of ageing differs between men and women. This year’s Symposium, curated by Boglárka Angéla Farkas, Asja Makarević and Andrea Virginás, sheds light on these differences and focuses on the representation of female ageing in Eastern European cinema. Fourteen feature-length films and three shorter contributions as supporting films will be shown. 

The Symposium is part of the Cinema Archipelago section, funded by the Kulturfonds Frankfurt RheinMain, and cooperates with the interdisciplinary research project AGE-C: Ageing and Gender in European Cinema. Researchers of gerontology, care studies, film studies as well as representatives from the film industry will discuss questions of gender and ageing in European cinema in lectures and panels, with “family” and “care” serving as key concepts.  

 

Lectures & Panels: 

Heimathafen im Alten Gericht Fri. 25.04. to Sun. 27.04.   

All presentations and panels will be held in English. 

Free admission 

The film program of the symposium will take place from 24.04 – 27.04!

 

FRIDAY 25.04.  

 09:30 – 10:30 LECTURE   

The Promise of the Golden Years: Selling Age and Gender in European Cinema   

With: Vinzenz Hediger (Switzerland/Germany)   

Moderator: Gloria Dagnino (Italy, Switzerland)   

   

11:00 – 12:45 PANEL DISCUSSION   

Can Women Age in Eastern European Cinema?   

With: Matthijs Wouter Knol (Netherlands/Germany), Elene Naveriani (Georgia/Switzerland), Ada Solomon (Romania), Labina Mitevska (North Macedonia)   

Moderator: Asja Makarević (Bosnia and Herzegovina/Germany)   

SATURDAY 26.04.

09:30 – 11:15 LECTURES + DISCUSSION 

Perspectives of Gerontology   

Gender and Ageing from the Perspective of Feminist Gerontology by Miranda Leontowitsch (Germany),  

A Critical View on Transnational Care Migration from an Intersectional Perspective by Helma Lutz (Germany),  

Un/Doing Age – Perspectives from Critical, Cultural and Material Gerontology by Anna Wanka (Austria/Germany)   

Moderator: Boglárka Angéla Farkas (Romania)   

Respondent: Francesco Pitassio (Italy)   

   

11:45 – 13:15 LECTURES + DISCUSSION 

Systemic Care and Ageing   

Our Fathers: Ageing, Care and Crisis in Contemporary Film by Tony Tracy (Ireland),  

The Ageing Turn and Dementia in Contemporary Hungarian Cinema by Eszter Ureczky (Hungary),  

The Status of the Elderly in the Romanian Healthcare System: Revisiting The Death of Mr. Lăzărescu and Best Intentions by Boglárka Angéla Farkas (Romania),  

Ageing with an Alien: Comical Relief from Intercultural Differences and Dependencies in Contemporary German-speaking Cinema by Asja Makarević (Bosnia and Herzegovina/Germany)  

Moderator: Vinzenz Hediger (Switzerland/Germany) 

SUNDAY 27.04.

09:30 – 11:30 LECTURES + DISCUSSION   

Fragility, Gender and Agency   

Fragile Masculinity: Ageing, Authority, and Patriarchal Platitudes in British Television Crime Narratives by Estella Tincknell (United Kingdom),  

(Ageing) Female Eco-warriors Past Middle-Age: Posttraumatic Growth for an Apocalyptic Agency? by Andrea Virginás (Romania),  

Ageing Female Characters in Crisis in Contemporary French Cinema by Adrien Valgalier (France)   

Moderator: Eszter Ureczky (Hungary)   

Respondent: Belén Vidal (United Kingdom, Spain)   

   

12:00 – 13:30 PANEL DISCUSSION   

Female Ageing and Film Curation   

With: Heleen Gerritsen (Netherlands/Germany), Asja Makarević (Bosnia and Herzegovina/Germany), Boglárka Angéla Farkas (Romania), Andrea Virginás (Romania)