Berkane Naima

Naïma Berkane is a PhD candidate at Sorbonne University, specializing in Yugoslav New Film and its aesthetics (“The Vane Escape: Aesthetic Trajectory of Yugoslav Novi Film – 1961-1972”). She initially trained and worked in the dramatic arts before transitioning into music production and management. She later joined the programming team of the film festival FIFIB in Bordeaux. Her academic focus now lies at the intersection of Slavic studies and film studies. She has taught at Sorbonne University, INALCO University, and the Paris College of Art. She regularly takes part in and organizes film programs and international conferences. Most recently, she directed a special issue of the journal Balkanologie, titled “Creating and Interpreting as Feminists: Women and Commitment in the Literature and Arts of the Balkans (20th and 21st Centuries).” Her next project, an international conference titled: “Colliding Women. Womanhood Narratives in the Modernisms of Central and Eastern Europe (1870-1970)”, will take place in Sorbonne.