What is the price of building a modern capitalist European state after communism’s fall, and who bears the cost? How are memory and architecture connected, and who builds national identity? 7th Sector explores these pressing questions, weaving history, urban transformation, and contested narratives into a critical cinematic inquiry
Director – Isabel Pastor Fernandez,
Isabel Pastor is currently pursuing a Master’s in Changing Societies at the University of Basel. With a background in Media and Communication, her interest lies in understanding the rapid transformations shaping today’s glocal post-modern societies and environments. Her focus includes multi-species ecologies, (more-than) human geography, critical urbanism and visual ethnography.
Director – JC Viloria Viloria
James Clifford Viloria is a visual anthropologist and PhD student in Social and Economic Geography at Eötvös Loránd University, Budapest. His research explores comparative urban studies, visual methods, the right to the city, and urban heritage, connecting academic inquiry with creative practice in documentary and visual anthropology.
Director – Julia Bantouvaki
Julia Bantouvaki holds a Master’s degree in Social and Cultural Studies from the European University Viadrina, Frankfurt (Oder), Germany. She is a sociologist, social anthropologist and researcher. Her research is centered on border and migration studies while taking a feminist and participatory methodological approach.