#19: film.macht.kritisch. Screenings: Practicing Curatorial Justice

Following up on Episode #9, which introduced the 6 Key Elements
of Curatorial Justice, this episode moves from theory into
action. We explore what it means to take curatorial
responsibility seriously — centering context, authorship, ethical
representation, and political clarity, rather than relying on
supposedly “universal” or “neutral” perspectives.


To bring these ideas to life, I reflect on five international
short films from the first film.macht.kritisch. Screenings:




Eid (12 min | Canada / Palestine | 2024 | Rame Ibrahim)




Forest Echoes (19 min | Canada | 2024 | Eva Grant)




Cow Heavy and Floral (15 min | USA | 2024 | Richa Rudola)




Nightbirds (14 min | Philippines | 2024 | Maria Estela Paiso
& Ashok Vish)




Holy Curse (16 min | India | 2024 | Snigdha Kapoor)




These works illuminate how borders and burials, motherhood, myth
and agency, care and Indigenous environmental resistance,
non-binary/trans identities, and cultural specificity become
sites of curatorial responsibility.


If you want to see these films in dialogue, join us on February
1, 2026, at 8 PM for the launch of film.macht.kritisch.
Screenings: Bodies, Borders, Resistance at BIWOC* Rising —
tickets available on Eventbrite.


Special thanks to Egyptian filmmaker and producer Nada Riyadh for
inspiring deeper exploration of curatorial justice in this
series. This episode also includes a brief excerpt from a panel I
already included in #9, “Unpacking Sovereignty and Curatorial
Justice: The Filmmaker’s Perspective”, moderated by Rico
Johnson-Sinclair (Cannes Docs – Marché du Film 2023, curated by
DAE).