Salazkina’s presentation uses the history of the Tashkent Festival of Cinemas of Asia, Africa, and Latin America as an aperture into ​a unique configuration of world cinema, one that ​emerged​ through the entanglement of internationalist solidarities and trans-racial affinities, of personal bonds and institutional connections, of multi-faceted artistic expressions and political commitments​​.

Irreducible to North-South, East-West, Orientalist or Cold War binaries, the networks that formed this festival both ​reflected and transformed epistemological and aesthetic models across these various divides, offering a distinctive cinematic formation through which to explore the dynamics of its era.

The talk offers a brief overview of the festival’s programming, which was unlike that of any other film festival in the world, and the vibrant culture it created. Through her analysis of the event’s coverage and publicity, Salazkina also touches upon the status of women on- and off-screen, as well as broader questions of cinema and politics.