Call for Entries Stu­dents’ Platform

We are thrilled to announce that the 20th edi­tion of the Freiburg­er Film­fo­rum will take place from May 27 to June 1, 2025. This year marks a spe­cial mile­stone as the Stu­dents’ Plat­form cel­e­brates its 5th edi­tion at the Freiburg­er Film­fo­rum. The fresh per­spec­tives and energy brought by stu­dents and young film­mak­ers have sig­nif­i­cant­ly enriched the fes­ti­val and the field of anthro­po­log­i­cal­ly informed cinema. In honour of their con­tri­bu­tions, we are excit­ed to open the Call for Entries for the Stu­dents’ Plat­form at the upcom­ing Freiburg­er Filmforum.

Submit your film under Film­Free­way.

This year, we are look­ing for works that find a syn­er­gy between form and con­tent. These may be films that close­ly observe the world, drive us into new modes of look­ing and lis­ten­ing, engage sen­si­tive­ly with the char­ac­ters, and clar­i­fy their intent through the film­mak­ing process. We are keenly inter­est­ed in works that engage, chal­lenge and per­sist through notions of gaze, posi­tion­al­i­ty, ethics and tran­scul­tur­al dialogue.

 

Spe­cial Category

Through this pro­gram, the Stu­dents’ Plat­form aims to acknowl­edge, appre­ci­ate, and invite works cre­at­ed under com­plex con­di­tions of threat, vio­lence and dis­lo­ca­tion. Our inten­tion with this spe­cial cat­e­go­ry is to sup­port and cel­e­brate the works of young film­mak­ers and doc­u­men­tar­i­ans (not only doc­u­men­taries) who respond to his­to­ry, soci­ety, cul­ture, and pol­i­tics. The fes­ti­val wishes to also create spaces of sol­i­dar­i­ty and com­mu­ni­ty for all those who find them­selves in com­pro­mised sit­u­a­tions and loca­tions. We aim to advance indi­vid­ual activism towards strength­ened col­lec­tive respons­es against the cul­ture of ignor­ing, silenc­ing, and cancelling.

We seek works that begin as indi­vid­ual reac­tions but also locate them­selves (and their bodies) within the col­lec­tive. This can be inter­pret­ed in var­i­ous ways through films about film­mak­ing, films about the self (as a film­mak­er), an aware­ness of the self in spaces of con­flict, indi­vid­ual and col­lec­tive respons­es to vio­lence, incit­ing a sense of col­lec­tive or com­mu­ni­ty, and much more.

 

Sub­mis­sion Rules

  • Sub­mis­sion Plat­form: All film sub­mis­sions must be made through Film­Free­way. 
  • Mul­ti­modal Works: For AR/VR/360, instal­la­tions, per­for­mances, and other forms beyond a single screen, please email us a syn­op­sis and trail­er of your work. 
  • Eli­gi­bil­i­ty: Only works produced/released after Novem­ber 15, 2022, are eli­gi­ble. 
  • Film Types: We wel­come films of any dura­tion (short to fea­ture) and form (fic­tion, non­fic­tion, exper­i­men­tal, ani­ma­tion, etc.). Adver­tise­ments, PSAs and any other pro­mo­tion­al work will not be accept­ed. 
  • Cat­e­go­ry Spec­i­fi­ca­tion: Please spec­i­fy whether your film is a Debut or Stu­dent film during sub­mis­sion. All fea­ture-length (60-minute and above) films will only be con­sid­ered in the Debut cat­e­go­ry. 
  • Lan­guage & Sub­ti­tles: Films can be in any lan­guage and must have Eng­lish sub­ti­tles. 
  • Fee Waivers: If you are a stu­dent, a film­mak­er from the Global South, and/or some­one facing finan­cial lim­i­ta­tions, please email us with a syn­op­sis and trail­er of your film. We will review your details and share a fee waiver code with you. 
  • Dis­claimers: 
    • We do not tol­er­ate sexist, homo­pho­bic, trans­pho­bic, racist, Islam­o­pho­bic, or any other hate­ful and humil­i­at­ing nar­ra­tive. 
    • The film­mak­ers must acquire all nec­es­sary rights for all music, images, videos, and any other mate­r­i­al used in the films before sub­mit­ting their films. For all the select­ed films, the film­mak­ers will be required to share a dec­la­ra­tion doc­u­ment of all the mate­r­i­al used. 
    • The fes­ti­val has the right to screen select­ed films during the fes­ti­val and at the accom­pa­ny­ing events. 
    • We do not pay any screen­ing fees to the film­mak­ers. 

We eager­ly look for­ward to screen­ing your films in Freiburg and at our part­ner venues. Join us in cel­e­brat­ing the con­tri­bu­tions of young film­mak­ers to the world of anthro­po­log­i­cal­ly informed cinema. 

 

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