The University of Thessaly is hosting a film festival curated by Delphine Leccas. The festival is part of the To Be—Named course "Ethnography and Artistic Research" at the University of Thessaly and in collaboration with the Fine Arts School of Athens. The two-day event is open to students enrolled in the course and EHCN members. For access, please reach out to Fotini Gouseti at fogouseti@hotmail.com.

The program will showcase works primarily by women directors, challenging our perceptions of the world and interrogating the ways we articulate it. Spanning from the 1980s to the present day, the six films in this selection aim to deconstruct the archetypal representations we create. They illuminate the meanings concealed behind the act of naming—whether obscured by misunderstanding, wielded for political and social purposes, or entrenched in national discourse. This examination ranges from the individual to the collective and traverses personal narratives alongside official histories. Through their diverse perspectives, these filmmakers compel us to rethink the language of identity, belonging, and the power of names.

Saturday 19 October, 4-7pm CET

• Pre-Image (Blind as the Mother Tongue) by Hiwa K, 2017, 18min. VO English and Kurdish subtitled in Greek.
• Intervista (Finding the Words) by Anri Sala, 1998, 26min. VO Albanian with English subtitles.
• Kamen by Florence Lazar, 2014, 65min. VO Bosnian, Serbian, Russian subtitled in English.

Sunday 20 October, 4-7pm CET

• What is Poetry to you? by Cecilia Vicuña, 1980, 23min. VO Spanish with English subtitles
• Barbès by Randa Maroufi, 2019, 6min. Silent.
• Intersex by Regine Abadia, 2017, 67min. VO French, English, and German subtitled in Greek.