Özgür Çiçek is a film scholar, researcher, and lecturer in the Media and Culture Department at the University of Amsterdam, the Netherlands. Her research interests lie at the intersection of national and transnational cinemas, minor cinemas, audiovisual heritage and media memory studies, documentary film and archive studies, film philosophy and aesthetics. Her forthcoming monograph is provisionally titled Kurdish Cinema in Turkey: Imprisonment, Memory, and the Archive.

Özlem Savas is a media studies scholar, researcher and lecturer at the Department of Comparative Cultural and Social Anthropology at European University Viadrina, Germany. Her interdisciplinary work bridges media studies, migration studies and cultural studies, with a particular emphasis on affect and emotions, aesthetic and cultural production, and everyday life. Her forthcoming monograph, The Sigh of Displacement: Affective Practices of Mediating Migration and Belonging, is under contract with Routledge.