To Ethnofest – The Athens Ethnographic Film Festival celebrates its 15th anniversary this year and invites you to this year’s edition, featuring new sections and collaborations alongside all the elements that have firmly established it as one of the city’s most interesting and consistently relevant film festivals. Fifteen years of moving, disarming, mobilizing films that …
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Τhe Athens Ethnographic Film Festival – Ethnofest is happy to announce its collaboration with the 15th Balkans Beyond Borders Short Film Festival (BBB) which will be organized at the island of Spetses. The event will feature a curated selection of documentaries from Ethnofest’s annual “Athens Summer School in Visual Ethnographic Practices” program, showcasing exceptional works by …
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The screening series HISTORY PROJECTED, organized in collaboration with the Goethe Institute continues for its fourth episode. Relations of masculinity, struggle for dominance, gentrification, migration, sovereignty, solidarity, center and periphery unfold on both sides of different borders. A feature film captures the condition of a power plant construction site in a Bulgarian village very close …
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The film screenings program “History Projected” organized in collaboration with Goethe Institut, returns this autumn! Even in its darkest hour, human history is caught in a perpetual summer, when nothing new is found under the bright sun. At the same time, even when nothing is new and everything draws on the past and the known, history …
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We are extremely thankful for all the wonderful submissions we received for the 15th Ethnofest. The call for films is now closed. We are very happy to announce that we received 480+ film submissions from all over the world, from which this year’s festival programme will emerge. Please stay tuned for our upcoming announcements as …
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With great pleasure Ethnofest is participating @ the 2nd Conference of the Association of Social Anthropologists Greece (SKAE) “Anthropology, ethnography in/for uncertain times” in Thessaloniki 24-26 Μαΐου 2024. You can find the programme here.
The film screenings program “History Projected” organized in collaboration with Goethe Institut, continues. Through a series of screenings that unfold over the course of 2024, Greek and German short and feature films introduce their own dialects and dialectics, assembling different approaches to a common historical past. Micro-narratives and off-beat, soft testimonies in the plural form; studies …
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Another year that the amount of summer school applications have exceeded our expectaions! We thank you for your trust and we hope to see you in July! *Successful applicants will be notified from the 2nd till the 8th of May 2024 and will be expected to confirm their participation until Friday, 17th of May 2024. Otherwise, their position will …
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The current global socio-political landscape is marked by fragility and complex challenges, ongoing conflicts, social inequalities, and the urgent need for sustainable solutions. Amidst these issues, war and its tactics have intensified the call for representation and visibility, emphasizing the importance of inclusive dialogue and collaborative efforts to address the pressing concerns of our interconnected …
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Ethnofest & University of Amsterdam Athens Summer School in Visual Ethnographic Practices 1 – 21 July 2024 Applicants: Students from the last year BA, Master & 1st year PhD in Social/Political Sciences, Humanities, Fine Arts & Film Studies The Ethnofest – Athens Ethnographic Film Festival in collaboration with the University of Amsterdam (UvA) organises the …
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The Association of Social Anthropologists Greece (SKAE), in collaboration with the Institute of Historical Research / National Hellenic Research Foundation (ERC-funded Project MUTE), and the Athens Ethnographic Film Festival-Ethnofest, invites you to a screening of the film A POR POR FUNERAL FOR ASHIRIFIE – Jazz Cosmopolitanism in Accra Series [color, 60 min, 2009], with the …
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German-Greek Filmic Dialogues on the Past and Future Through a series of screenings that unfold over the course of 2024, Greek and German short and feature films introduce their own dialects and dialectics, assembling different approaches to a common historical past. Micro-narratives and off-beat, soft testimonies in the plural form; studies on mythology and …
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