‘Oppression or Emancipation’ Panel and Screening of the Film ‘Gledanje u kaldrmu’ / Shawl as a Cultural Signifier

A panel discussion on ‘Oppression or Emancipation’ and a screening of the film ‘Gledanje u kaldrmu’ (Look at the Cobblestones) will be held at the Svilara Cultural Station on 26 May, as part of the ‘Shawl as a Cultural Signifier’ project of the Heroines programme arch.

Panel participants: Fahrudin Kladinčanin and Gordana Stojaković

The documentary ‘Gledanje u kaldrmu’ focuses on a historical period, that is, a political system whose collapse opened new interests and debates about the status of women in the Sandžak society of that time. In a broader sense, the entire film is based on the awareness of the need to create a history of women in Sandžak, in order to make their presence, their story, visible in the real history of the city. More precisely, so that history, an almost exclusively male story of the past, can be (r)evaluated and expanded upon from another, feminine angle, through the ordinary life confessions of Muslim women.

Directed by Fahrudin Kladinčanin, produced by Academic Initiative ‘Forum 10’, 2016, Novi Pazar.

Erste Bank is the partner of the Heroines programme arch.

Photo: Museum of Vojvodina