Chinese Revolution (1946−52)
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| - | The '''Subversive Festival''' is an [[Year|annual]] international [[fortnight]] of [[political]], [[activist]], [[cultural]], [[educational]], [[literary]] and [[artistic]] events that takes place in [[Zagreb]], [[Croatia]] every May. Its activities are divided into the Subversive Film Festival (which was the official name of the festival until 2011), the Subversive Forum, the Balkan Forum and the Subversive Book Fair. The cross-cutting activity is the Subversive Festival's Conference that includes major keynote lectures and round tables held in Cinema Europe. | ||
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| - | ==Origin and History== | ||
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| - | | 2008 | ||
| - | | Hommage to '68 | ||
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| - | | 2009 | ||
| - | | China 1949-2009 | ||
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| - | | 2010 | ||
| - | | Socialism | ||
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| - | | 2011 | ||
| - | | Decolonization | ||
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| - | | 2012 | ||
| - | | The Future of Europe | ||
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| - | | 2013 | ||
| - | | The Utopia of Democracy | ||
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| - | | 2014 | ||
| - | | Power & Freedom - in the time of control | ||
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| - | | 2015 | ||
| - | | Spaces of Emancipation - Micropolitics and Rebellions | ||
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| - | | 2016 | ||
| - | | Politics of Friendship | ||
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| - | The Festival was initially founded as the '''Subversive Film Festival''' in 2008 which celebrated the 40th anniversary of the [[protests of 1968]]. The initial edition of the festival included screening of the films by [[Chris Marker]] and [[Jean-Luc Godard]] as well as public lectures by [[Slavoj Žižek]], [[Ernesto Laclau]], [[Chantal Mouffe]] and others. Each edition of the festival has an overarching theme that invites critical examination and public debates. In 2009 the Festival was dedicated to [[China]], in the context of the 60th anniversary of the [[Chinese Revolution (1946−52)|Communist Revolution]], whereas in 2010 its theme was the history, present and future of the idea of [[socialism]]. | ||
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| - | Following the "[[Arab Spring]]", the 2011 edition was dedicated to [[decolonisation]] as well as to [[new social movements]]. The situation in the [[European Union]] prompted the organisers in 2012 to tackle "The Future of Europe", whereas the major theme of 2013's "The Utopia of Democracy" responded to the rise of global movements demanding real [[democracy]], [[participation (decision making)|participation]] and social [[justice]]. Che Guevara's daughter [[Aleida Guevara|Aleida]] was one of the guests in 2013, as well as [[Alexis Tsipras]], the head of Greece's leftist [[SYRIZA]] parliamentary group, both taking part in debates at the festival. | ||
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| - | In 2013 [[Srećko Horvat]] and [[Igor Štiks]] left the Subversive Festival together with other members of the program team, "due to differences in understanding the goals and direction of the activist platforms within Subversive Forum and, more generally, the general purpose of Subversive Festival". From 2014 onwards it has been run by a different team. | ||
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| - | ==Festival sections== | ||
| - | Subversive Festival has several sections. | ||
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| - | ===The Subversive Film Festival=== | ||
| - | In 2011 the Subversive Film Festival, originally the core of the festival, became one of many festival sections. | ||
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| - | The [[film festival]] consists of a selection of films according to their relation to the main theme of that year's Festival (e.g. 1968, China, Socialism, Decolonisation, Europa Incognita, Utopia of Democracy), [[retrospective]]s of acknowledged [[leftist]] film authors and [[panel discussion]]s between [[film theory|film theoreticians]] and [[filmmaker]]s. | ||
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| - | The most notable film retrospectives so far include an overview of the revolutionary films of the 1960s and 1970s, a selection of [[Chinese film]] classics and contemporary films, a major [[retrospective]] of [[Yugoslav cinema]] ([[curator|curated]] by Sergio Germani Grmek) and a selection of contemporary [[Third World]] cinema. | ||
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| - | The sixth edition of the Subversive Film Festival (in 2013) introduced competition categories for contemporary [[Cinema of Europe|European]] and international films, selected by the [[artistic director]] Dragan Rubeša. The first Wild Dreamer Award for Lifetime Achievement was given to [[Oliver Stone]], whose latest 10-hour-long series the [[Untold History of the United States]] was shown in the main film programme. The Wild Dreamer for Best Documentary Film went to Italian director [[Daniele Vicari]] for [[:it:La nave dolce|La nave dolce]]. [[The Land of Hope]] by Japanese director [[Shion Sono]], a story about a family whose father refuses to evacuate his sick wife from a [[Radiation effects from Fukushima Daiichi nuclear disaster|radiation affected area]], won the Best Feature Award. French filmmaker Sylvain George's Vers Madrid (en. The Burning Bright!), which documents demonstrations of the [[15-M]] [[grassroots movement|grassroots protest movement]] in Spain, was voted Best Film by the [[audience]]. | ||
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| - | ===The Subversive Forum=== | ||
| - | The Subversive Forum is a leftist and [[progressivism|progressive]] event that established itself as an open platform for different and even opposing positions. The Subversive Forum is not connected to any [[political party]] but it attracts individuals of various political stripes on the progressive left and is related to almost all significant Croatian, [[Former Yugoslavia|post-Yugoslav]] and [[Balkans]] [[social movement]]s – from [[student movement]]s, [[trade union]]s, [[feminism|feminist organisations]], the Right to the City movements, [[green movement|green]] and [[LGBT]] [[activist]]s etc. The Subversive Forum has been supported by the [[World Social Forum]] as an official event of the WSF. According to the organizers, the Subversive forum has become "one of the key European mobilisation points for activists and intellectuals from the region and the world, thinking jointly how to build better social systems” | ||
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| - | ===The Balkan Forum=== | ||
| - | The Balkan Forum was established in 2012 as the platform for cooperation for pan-[[Balkan]] social and political movements and organisations from 10 post-socialist countries ([[Slovenia]], [[Croatia]], [[Bosnia and Herzegovina]], [[Serbia]], [[Republic of Macedonia|Macedonia]], [[Albania]], [[Bulgaria]], [[Romania]], [[Montenegro]], and with strong participation from [[Hungary]]). The conclusions of the First Balkan Forum highlighted a need for stronger [[cooperation]] among these movements as well as for joint action across the [[The Balkans|peninsula]]. A huge number of activists gathered in 2012 and 2013 to discuss topics relevant to the region, including [[neoliberalism|neoliberal policies]], rampant [[privatisation]], the defense of the [[Commons]], student and workers movements, sex and [[gender equality]], [[social change]], as well as the questions of [[democratisation]] and [[participation (decision making)|participation]], the media and [[public sphere]], and alternative [[economic model]]s. | ||
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| - | The Balkan Forum includes both [[self-organised]] sessions by movements and organisations themselves as well as [[plenary session]]s. | ||
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| - | ==Networks and Influence== | ||
| - | The Subversive Festival established strong ties with the [[World Social Forum]], The World Forum of Alternatives, [[Transform Europe|Transform! Europe Network]], [[Association for the Taxation of Financial Transactions and for Citizens' Action|Attac]], [[Rosa Luxemburg Stiftung]], [[Heinrich Böll Foundation]] | ||
| - | ==Notable guests== | ||
| - | The Festival's conference attracts thousands of visitors from all over the world. Many prominent intellectuals have given [[keynote]] lectures and participated in [[public debate]]s, including [[Slavoj Žižek]], [[Oliver Stone]], [[Alexis Tsipras]], [[Tariq Ali]], [[Aleida Guevara]], [[Terry Eagleton]], [[Gayatri Spivak]], [[Michael Hardt]], [[Antonio Negri]], [[Saskia Sassen]], [[Wang Hui (intellectual)|Wang Hui]], [[Minqi Li]], [[Karl-Heinz Dellwo]], [[David Harvey]], [[Erik Olin Wright]], [[Bernard Stiegler]], [[Franco Berardi]], [[Karl-Markus Gauss]], [[Renata Salecl]], [[Boris Buden]], [[Dubravka Ugrešić]], [[Želimir Žilnik]], [[Aleš Debeljak]], [[Samir Amin]] etc. | ||
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