Call for Entries Students’ Platform

The upcoming edition marks a special milestone as our Students’ Platform celebrates its 10th anniversary. Fresh perspectives, critical thought and creative energy brought by students and upcoming filmmakers significantly enrich the field of anthropologically informed cinema. Once again, we would like to create a space for such filmmakers and their work.

CALL FOR ENTIRES: We are looking for 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. Works creating synergy between form and content are of special interest to the selection committee.

The CALL is accompanied by a special category: RESOUNDING RESISTANCE - This program aims to acknowledge, appreciate, and invite works created under complex conditions of threat, violence and dislocation. We seek works that are sparked by individual reactions and attempt to locate themselves 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. We aim to advance individual activism towards strengthened collective responses against the culture of ignoring, silencing, and cancelling. Through this special category, the festival wishes to create spaces of solidarity and community for all those who find themselves in compromised situations and locations.

 

Submit your film via FilmFreeway.

 

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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