This Alphaville issue brings together contributions that probe innovative approaches and methods of decolonising knowledge in screen cultures.Beginning with the question of what and whose knowledge is privileged, we seek to IEC Mains Power Lead understand how film festivals, from inception to production, engage with knowledge Shelves paradigms to dismantle matrices of power and perform and promote artistic representations of sovereignty.The contributions theorize and historicise (de)colonial frameworks for engaging with all aspects of film festivalisation.