Migration, Memory, and the Art of Storytelling in Film Lecture Series 2024 – Recordings Available

In 2024, ICC Sophia University Japan and Free University Berlin organized the online lecture series Migration, Memory, and the Art of Storytelling in Film, hosted by Megha Wadhwa and David H. Slater. This series featured renowned directors and storytellers who joined us for film screenings followed by in-depth discussions on the art of filmmaking as a powerful medium for narrating experiences of displacement, longing, and identity.

These conversations offered profound insights into how film serves as a conduit for preserving and sharing the nuanced narratives of migration and the indelible imprints of memory.

The convenors are pleased to share the recordings of these sessions, which we believe will serve as valuable course material for those teaching filmmaking, migration studies, or related subjects. We hope you find these recordings as enriching and thought-provoking as we did.

You can explore the lineup of events, access the recordings, and find additional details here:
Migration, Memory, and the Art of Storytelling in Film

Or see below – 

Living like a Common Man’ 
Screening & discussion with Sanderien Verstappen and Darshan Patel
​Sanderien Verstappen, Social and Visual Anthropologist (University of Vienna)
June 12, 2024, 18:00 – 20:00
Trailer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZG1vrp_5CpI
​Watch on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v4–W-nCgvg

Between Memories
Screening & discussion with Martha-Cecilia Dietrich
Martha-Cecilia Dietrich, Social Anthropologist and Filmmaker (University of Amsterdam)
July 16 2024, 18:00 – 20:00
​Trailer: https://mcdietrich.net/entre-memorias/
​Watch on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HdB87V68MSE

Ainupuri
Screening & discussion with Laura Liverani
Laura Liverani, Documentary Photographer and Filmmaker
August 13, 2024, 18:00 – 20:00
For more please check: http://www.lauraliverani.com/
​Watch on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vwuis5qEs00

To Whom It May Concern 
Screening & discussion with Zakaria Mohamed Ali
​Zakaria Mohamed Ali, Somali Journalist, Video-Maker, and Freelance Documentary Filmmaker; September 17, 2024, 18:00 – 20:00
​Trailer: https://vimeo.com/59822420
​Watch on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QrsOXyJgZiU

Finding Their Niche: Unheard Stories of Migrant Women
Screening & discussion with Megha Wadhwa
​Megha Wadhwa, Anthropologist, Filmmaker, and Writer based at the Free University of Berlin’s Japanese Studies Department; October 22, 2024, 18:00 – 20:00
​Trailer: https://vimeo.com/743482060?share=copy
​Watch on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qizfTusi9E4

In discussion with Özgür Çiçek​
Özgür Çiçek, Film Scholar, Researcher, and Lecturer in the Media and Culture Department at the University of Amsterdam
November 12, 2024, 18:00 – 20:00
​Watch on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OfPAWpQVj9c

This project is a part of BMBF (Federal Ministry of Education and Research Germany) funded project – Qualification and Skill in the Migration Process of Foreign Workers in Asia and supported by Free University of Berlin, Goethe University Frankfurt and the ICC Collaborative Research Unit “Visual Studies and Displacement in/to Japan”, a Joint Research Unit between Institute of Comparative Culture of Sophia University Japan and Free University of Berlin.