FILM EDUCATION CONFERENCE PROGRAM (9-10 july 2026)
9 July
09h30-10h00 | Participants Admission
10h00-10h30 | Opening Session
10h30-12h30 | Panel Session I (Chair: Carlos Natálio)
Existential contemplations: two blockages (André Dias, ESTC)
"Learning” Ethics Through the Moving Image: A Phenomenological Approach to Film Education (Leonor Reis, CIEBA)
Cinema and School Space: Elements for a Deviation in Transmission (Francisco Madureira, FCSH-UNL)
Cracks for the sensitive: dispositifs as pedagogical strategies in hybrid artistic territories (Fernanda Leite, UFF)
12h30-14h00 | Lunch (free)
14h00-15h30 | Keynote speaker I: Andrea Reisz (Chair: Ekaterina Cordas)
Building Inclusive Film Education Practices: Insights from CinEd Lab Romania
15h30-15h45 | Coffee Break
15h45-17h45 | Panel Session II (Chair: Pedro Alves)
The National Cinema Plan (PNC) of Portugal 2021-2030: An Overview (Elsa Mendes, PNC)
National Strategies for Film Literacy in Portuguese Schools (Marisa Mourão, CECS; Isabel Macedo, CECS)
Cinema as Propaganda – the Case of the Estado Novo: A Study of Historical Evidence with 9th Grade Students (Cláudia Vieira, UM; Marília Gago, UM)
Film Education as a Subject in Czech Schools: The Role of the Association for Film and Audiovisual Education and the Textbook “Filmouka" (Petr Pláteník, ASFAV)
17h45-18h00 | Break
18h00-19h30 | Panel Session III (Chair: Vera Herold)
Rebuilding Cinema from the Ground Up: A Bottom-Up Methodology for Film Education through the MOUV’ Project (Samira Zaibat, JOLIFANTO)
From Archive to Cinephilia: Rediscovering Portuguese Cinema with FILMar (Paulo Portugal, FCSH-UNL)
The Triangle of Atlantique: Colonial Legacy, Capitalism and the Atlantic Ocean, Mati Diop’s Antagonistic Triad (José Duarte, CITAR)
10 july
10h30-12h30 | Panel Session IV (Chair: Fernanda Leite)
Marginal Forms, Central Potential: the Potential of Short Film in Contemporary Film Education (Franciszek Drąg, ALE KINO!)
Contested Images — Teaching Ethnographic Film in the Contemporary Frame (Marcia Mansur, CRIA)
Who Gets to Tell the Story? Participatory Filmmaking for the Inclusion of Children and Youth with Disabilities (Faridah Shakoor Nabaggala, ABLOOM)
Recording Memory – Documentary Production by students (Anna Tsiarta, CPI)
12h30-14h00 | Lunch (free)
14h00-15h30 | Keynote speaker II: Mark Reid (Chair: Elsa Mendes)
On Becoming Serious: the story of Denial
15h30-15h45 | Coffee Break
15h45-17h45 | Round Table: Film Education and Communities [com Gabriela Trevisan (ProChild CoLAB), Manuel Guerra (Escola Superior de Teatro e Cinema) e Pedro Florêncio (Faculdade de Ciências Sociais e Humanas)] (Chair: Carlos Natálio)
17h45-18h00 | Coffee Break
18h00 – 20h00 | Film Screening: Mistida by Falcão Nhaga (30') + Na Trafaria by Pedro Florêncio (55´). [films with english subtitles]
