This conference aims to consider film studies from a variety of critical, theoretical, and analytical approaches and to focus on how "self-other" relations are represented. 

Papers are invited on topics related, but not limited, to:

• Post-colonial discourses in the cinema

• Representations of femininity and masculinity

• Nationalism and multiculturalism

• Inclusiveness and belonging

• Orientalism vs globalisation

• Cinematic representation of the exotic 

• Horror films and depiction of the supernatural

• Portrayal of homelessness and poverty

• Depicting environmental otherness

The conference is addressed to academics, researchers and professionals with a particular interest related to the conference topic.