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Learning from the Best is back, join us on May 7! 🌸 This is our season’s last learning from the best before our summer break. Don’t miss out and join us for our season finale, a D–Arts () × Gewächshaus crossover!

Behind the Screens with Djamila Grandits (.a)

Who decides which films are seen, discussed, and remembered? What challenges come with working between institutions, festivals, and independent initiatives? Who gets to be involved in these fields? What networks of care and solidarity are needed within, across, and beyond the field?

We’ll dive into Djamila Grandits’ experiences working across programming, curation, funding, film mediation, moderation, and festival ecosystems. Together, we’ll explore the many forms of labour that help films find their way to the screen and keep them alive long afterwards.

📍 Brunnenpassage, Brunnengasse 71, 1160 Vienna
🕒 14:00–18:00
💌 Participation is free, but please register at: [email protected]

Co-working circle for filmmakers affected by structural racism.

First image: .films

Join us for from 26th-31st of May! ✨As part of this year’s festival, we curated the program Performed As Given: How Realities Are Staged, Repeated and Undone, curated by Mara Chavez (.achavez).

🗓️ Sunday, 31st of May, 20:00 start
📍 Metro Historic Auditorium ()
🗣️ Q&A with Sophia Yuet See (, ) moderated by Mara Chavez (.achavez) after the program

Attention shifts from content to construction, where realities are re-enacted, circulated and kept in play. How do archives, art, science and film sustain what passes as given? In this program, the performance does not quite hold. Echoes of colonial image-making resurface – gestures repeat, roles shift, meaning slips. Moving through spectacle and storytelling, these films stage myth until it starts to crumble. What appears as given reveals itself as constructed. Attention: the frame shows!

Curated by Mara Chavez (Gewächshaus)
In cooperation with Gewächshaus

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ALL MY SISTERS
Tehran, Iran. Between 2007 and 2025, we follow three sisters as they grow up in a loving family. Eighteen years, from early childhood to everyday life as young women searching for freedom. Raised in traditional ways, the sisters witness and become protagonists in the struggles of a youth in constant flux. What does their future hold in today’s Iranian society?

Following the screening, we invite you to a panel discussion exploring how growing up under restrictive political regimes is shaped. The discussion aims to create a space for exchanging ideas about resilience, identity, and the role of young people in shaping change.

Please note: The film will be shown in Farsi with English subtitles; the subsequent discussion will be held in English.

Film & Discussion in cooperation with the Bruno Kreisky Forum ()