"Blickwechsel", is VIDC's podcast for a another, a new look at the world. With this Podcast we want to bring those voices into the spotlight that we rarely hear in Austria: Activists and scientists from the Global South; people who come from our focus regions, who are directly affected, with whom we collaborate on events or studies. Who have an insight that we don't have, whose views open up new perspectives for us.
Sybille Straubinger, Director of the Vienna Institute for International Dialogue and Cooperation, guides this Podcast. The VIDC is a think tank founded in 1962 by the later Chancellor Bruno Kreisky together with prominent politicians of the so-called Global South. Being in dialogue, always on the basis of equality and respect, and making the voices from the South heard in Austria (and not talking about them), that is the basic premise of our work - and of this Podcast.
Georgia has experienced profound and traumatic political changes in recent years. Since 2024, political tensions have intensified, with the ruling Georgian Dream party remaining in power, large pro-European protests following the disputed parliamentary elections, and the government announcing that it would not pursue EU accession negotiations until 2028. As political pressure grows, civic space narrows and austerity policies take hold, artists and their work are often among the first to feel the consequences. In this episode, VIDC Director Sybille Straubinger speaks with Georgian documentary filmmaker Salomé Jashi about artistic freedom, civil society protests, and the future of Georgia.
