students' platform

Unusu­al per­spec­tives and per­son­al approach­es to their topics and pro­tag­o­nists char­ac­ter­ize the pro­gram of the STUDENTS’ PLATFORM, which com­ple­ments the fes­ti­val with a diverse selec­tion of inter­na­tion­al debut films and final works of film, visual anthro­pol­o­gy and media schools.  Curat­ed from more than three hun­dred sub­mis­sions from across the globe, this sec­tion show­cas­es a multi-faceted selec­tion of 16 debut and stu­dent films of all lengths, shot in 14 countries. The pro­gram is accom­pa­nied by a rich work­shop pro­gram on cur­rent debates in doc­u­men­tary-film­mak­ing and visual anthro­pol­o­gy, which is con­duct­ed in coop­er­a­tion with a stu­dent ini­tia­tive of a visual anthro­pol­o­gy work­ing group of the anthro­pol­o­gy depart­ment, Uni­ver­si­ty Freiburg. There is no com­pe­ti­tion in the stu­dents’ plat­form. Instead we aim to pro­vide a plat­form for upris­ing film­mak­ers to tell sto­ries, raise voices and net­work with fellow emerg­ing and estab­lished film­mak­ers alike.