Decolonial Perspectives: Local Histories and Voices

Konstanty Kuzma is the co-founder and co-editor of the East European Film Bulletin, an online journal on Central, Eastern, and South-Eastern European cinema. He studied philosophy in Berlin, Berkeley, and Munich, and joined the Philosophy Institute at the University of Stuttgart as a post-doctoral researcher in 2024.
He is currently editing a book on film and urban spaces in Belarus, Poland, and Ukraine under contract with Routledge, and producing an archival film on forced labor during World War Two.

Eva Neymann (b. 1974, Zaporizhzhia, Ukraine) studied law at the University of Marburg in Germany and film direction at the German Film and Television Academy in Berlin. After her successful documentary film GOD’S WAYS (2007), which received the German talent prize First Steps in 2007, she made several documentaries that were screened at various international film festivals (JUST LIKE OLD TIMES, 2004; DAS MEER SEHEN, 2005; GOD'S WAYS, 2007). In 2007, she released her feature film debut AT THE RIVER (2007), which had its international premiere at the Rotterdam International Film Festival. Her second feature film, HOUSE WITH A TURRET (2012), received the Karlovy Vary East of the West Award. Her film SONG OF SONGS (2015) premiered in the official competition at Karlovy Vary and won the Best Director award at the Odessa International Film Festival, as well as the FIPRESCI award in Fribourg, Switzerland. Her next documentary, PRYVOZ (2021), was selected for the Doclisboa International Film Festival in 2021 and showcased at many renowned film festivals, including Sheffield DocFest 2022, DokLeipzig 2022, and the Krakow Film Festival 2022. Her latest feature film, WHEN LIGHTNING FLASHES OVER THE SEA (2025), has been selected for the Berlin IFF.

Carla J. Maier is a Senior Research Fellow in the project Postcolonial Neighbourhoods at the Institute for European Ethnology, Humboldt University of Berlin. Her research and practice sit at the intersection of sound studies and cultural anthropology, focusing on memory and decolonial spatial practices. As part of the Amo Collective Berlin, she co-develops collaborative, multimodal projects such as the public walk Decolonial Flânerie and the Kiosk Batakari. She has previously been Guest Professor for Cultural Studies at the University of Potsdam and has taught at several universities in Germany and Denmark. Carla is also part of the editorial team of Norient Books, which publishes on music, sound, and noise at the crossroads of art, academia, and multimodal formats. She is the author of Transcultural Sound Practices: British Asian Dance Music as Cultural Transformation (2020).

Olha Bregman is a Ukrainian producer with more than 15 years of experience in film production. She is a co-founder of a women-led “2Brave Productions”. Her credits include award-winning movies such as “Cuba&Alaska” (Jury and Audience Prize at Brussels International FF 2025) by David Gutnik, “STOP-ZEMLIA” by Kateryna Gornostai (Crystal Bear Generation 14+ at Berlinale 2021), “INTERCEPTED” by Oksana Karpovych (Two Special Mention AwardS at Berlinale 2024). Olha has also produced Kateryna Gornostai’s “TIMESTAMP” premiered in the Competition at Berlinale 2025, and “Collapse. How the Ukrainians ruined the Empire of Evil” (2021 Documentary Series for Ukrainian National Channel). Alumni of Ex Oriente and Eurodoc training programs.