Call for applications | Athens Summer School in Visual Ethnographic Practices | 2025

Thursday February 20th, 2025

Athens Summer School in Visual Ethnographic Practices 7 – 27 July 2025 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 intensive “Athens Summer School in …
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Saying Goodbye to Ethnofest 15 | Moments from the festival

Thursday December 12th, 2024

After fourteen incredible days of physical and online screenings, side events, and open discussions, the 15th Ethnofest-Athens Ethnographic Film Festival has come to a close. We would like to extend our sincere thanks to our dedicated team, the broader festival community, our audience, and the individuals and institutions whose support has been vital to us …
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Ethnofest 15 Goes Online! 2nd-8th December

Monday December 2nd, 2024

The in-person screenings may have concluded, but the festival continues! Explore the online program and (re)watch a selection of films from this year’s lineup. Online screenings began today and will run through Sunday, December 8. Click here to view the online program! Note: Once you purchase your ticket, the online screening you select will remain …
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HISTORY PROJECTED | Episode 5: Women Reply

Friday November 15th, 2024

Ethnofest invites you to the final edition of HISTORY PROJECTED, a film screening program in collaboration with Goethe Institut Athen. Episode 5: Women Reply Thursday 05.12.2024 at 7:00 PM at Goethe Institut Athen Two films made in the fuzzy 1980s, but at key instances in the political history of their production countries (after the “wind …
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Download Our Programme | Book your Ticket!

Friday November 22nd, 2024

The program of the 15th Ethnofest – Athens Ethnographic Film Festival is here! Ethnofest views cinema as a window into the world’s complexities, offering space for imagination and empathy. Only by looking inward and then outward can the desire for collective well-being become a reality. Explore the 15th Ethnofest program, filled with films and tributes …
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15th Ethnofest – The Athens Ethnographic Film Festival | Press release

Wednesday November 20th, 2024

Ethnofest – The Athens Ethnographic Film Festival celebrates its 15th anniversary this year, continuing its work uninterrupted, in a global context that is far from ideal. Amid a series of ongoing crises across the world, with a war raging in the Middle East, the genocide taking place in Palestine, and the increasing conservatism in both …
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Ethnofest 15 | Poster Reveal

Tuesday November 12th, 2024

𝟏𝟓th 𝐄𝐓𝐇𝐍𝐎𝐅𝐄𝐒𝐓 is here and it has a POSTER! At a time when we seem to be in a permanent eclipse, the only option is to stare into the darkness and manifest the desire for everyone’s happiness into a possible reality. With this in mind, this year’s poster, designed by George Skarmoutsos for the 𝟏𝟓th …
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15 Years Ethnofest | Athens Ethnographic Film Festival

Thursday October 31st, 2024

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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Το Ethnofest στο Balkan Beyond Borders Film Festival

Thursday October 10th, 2024

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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ΗISTORY PROJECTED | Episode 4: Building History

Tuesday October 8th, 2024

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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HISTORY PROJECTED: Episode 3: Summer Histories

Wednesday September 11th, 2024

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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