Destination: Tashkent – Reader (EN)
With contributions by Cana Bilir-Meier, Souleymane Cissé, Pascale Fakhry, Zach Ramon Fitzpatrick, Sophie Genske, Timur Karpov, Ali Khamraev, Valeriya Kim, Carlos Kong, Bonaventure Soh Bejeng Ndikung, Maren Niemeyer Jacqueline Nsiah, Furqat Palvan-Zade, Marie Helene Pereira, Elena Razlogova, Aykan Safoğlu, Masha Salazkina, Alex Moussa Sawadogo, Can Sungu, Echo Xuedan Tang, and Sarnt Utamachote.
Between 1968 and 1988, the Tashkent Festival of Asian, African, and—from 1976 onwards—Latin American Cinema was held in Tashkent, Uzbekistan. As an exercise in soft power and a response to anti-colonial movements and the socio-political upheaval of the late 1960s, the festival grew into a unique gathering for film professionals and became an important platform for South-South solidarity that went beyond the cinema halls of Tashkent. In essays and conversations by researchers, film-makers, and organizers of contemporary film festivals, the Destination: Tashkent Reader reappraises the original festival’s programming, while also looking critically at its legacy. From the vantage point of Berlin-based diasporas of Asia, Africa, and Latin America, the reader also investigates how such practices of encounters and collaboration resonate within the film scenes of these three continents today.
Table of Contents
9
The Myth of Tashkent
Weaving Solidarities and the Politics of Film
Bonaventure Soh Bejeng Ndikung
21
Destination: Tashkent
From Cinematic Internationalism to Transnational Spaces of Film and Discourse
Can Sungu
31
A Celebration for the Whole City
Can Sungu in conversation with Ali Khamraev
42
The Spirit of Tashkent
Masha Salazkina
55
The Liberation Politics of Live Translation
Cinemas of Africa, Asia, and Latin America in Soviet Tashkent
Elena Razlogova
66
Tashkent and Its Discontents: Then and Now
Furqat Palvan-Zade in conversation with Timur Karpov and Valeriya Kim
83
Film Festivals between Politics and Curation
Can Sungu in conversation with Jacqueline Nsiah and Alex Moussa Sawadogo
99
Community Film Festivals and the Diaspora
Sophie Genske and Can Sungu in conversation with Pascale Fakhry, Echo Xuedan Tang, and Sarnt Utamachote
115
Asian Diasporic Voices and Berlin
Connecting the Past and Present of German Film
Zach Ramon Fitzpatrick
127
Migration from Turkey in German Cinema
Carlos Kong in conversation with Cana Bilir-Meier and Aykan Safoğlu
143
Film-making Will Save Us!
Marie Helene Pereira in conversation with Souleymane Cissé
153
Afterword
Goethe-Institut Uzbekistan
Maren Niemeyer
173
Film Selection and Synopses
Tashkent and Berlin
183
Contributors
Information
Published by: Haus der Kulturen der Welt (HKW) and Archive Books, Berlin, 2024
Languages: English edition
192 pages, softcover, 50 images
ISBN: 978-3-949973-79-6
Price: 15€
Available: At bookstores and the HKW shop