The conference will feature eight panels consisting of talks given by theoreticians from countries in East and Central Europe as well as Great Britain and Sweden.

Chuck Tryon from Fayetteville State University and the author of On-Demand Culture. Digital Delivery and the Future of Movies will give a presentation titled On-Demand Spectatorship: Eight Concepts for the Era of Digital Delivery on 20 November.

Polish studies specialist and researcher Mikołaj Kunicki of the University of Oxford and author of the book Between the Brown and the Red: Nationalism, Catholicism and Communism in Twentieth Century Poland will give a lecture titled The (Un)usual Suspects: De-Stalinisation, De-politicisation, and the Auteur and Genre Film-Making in East-Central Europe in the 1950s and '60s on 21 November.

The international section of the programme will feature talks given by Marcin Adamczak (Poland), Nevena Daković (Serbia), Constantin Parvulescu (Romania), Valérie Pozner (France), Marsha Seifert (Great Britain) and Petr Szczepanik (Czech Republic), as well as Slovak theoreticians Martin Šmatlák, Jana Dudková and Katarína Mišíková.

The conference will be preceded by a meeting held in Czech and Slovak on 19 November, consisting of presentations of research projects, a panel reflecting on the alternative distribution and its connection with digital trends. The panel hosted by Zuzana Mistríková will feature Lucia Gertli of Film Europe, Jana Ripplová of KineDok, Diana Tabakov of DAFilms.cz, Zora Jaurová and Mátyás Prikler of Mphilms.

The complete programme can be found at: www.udfv.sav.sk, www.kas.vsmu.sk, and www.cefs.cz.