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We are extremely thankful and touched by the amazing submissions we have received for the 12th edition of our festival. 2021 following the example of 2020 has not been an easy year, so we appreciate every single one of the films you sent us. Our work starts here as we delve right into them in …
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A whole year has already passed with the new paradigm. The pandemic has set the foundations of a new way of communication and expression while the global and local turmoil has shaped our disposition towards the world and our place in it. Under these circumstances, we are more urged than ever for the 12th edition of the Athens Ethnographic Film Festival which returns in the winter of 2021, ready to adjust to the demands of a new era and give space to new and established voices of ethnographic filmmaking.
Already in the first week of November, the month that is traditionally linked with Ethnofest’s Festival, we feel that the need to address our friends is more urgent than ever. Reaching the end of the tortured 2020, we think it is a perfect chance to communicate Ethnofest news, changes and next steps. Changes in the …
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Athens Summer School in Ethnographic Filmmaking | July 1st – 21st, 2021 The Ethnofest – Athens Ethnographic Film Festival and the University of Amsterdam (UvA) organise the intensive “Athens Summer School in Ethnographic Filmmaking”. Τhe summer school has been running since 2015, developing an expertise that has been highly appreciated by all participants. Visual anthropology is …
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The Athens Ethnographic Film Festival – Ethnofest attends closely to the new paradigm that has shifted the human condition world-wide. Within the gravity of the current unprecedented situation, the festival aims to be a constant agent for the transmission of knowledge but also an active platform for the formation and support of ideas and creative …
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Ethnofest, in sense of timing due to the current Covid-19 events, delays the announcement of the call for films to a later date. The 11th edition of the festival will take place from the 26th of November to the 2nd of December 2020. The period we traverse will find us changed both internally and externally. …
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Tamaris Vier, our lovely Hospitality Assistant, wrote an insightful and moving article about Ethnofest. Enjoy it! ETHNOFEST: A REAL SENSE OF WHAT’S COOKING IN VISUAL ANTHROPOLOGY Athens Ethnographic Film Festival celebrated its 10th anniversary and therefore invited its audience for a 7-day experience full of creativity, connection, and visually inspired mind-travels. Divided into thematic sections, …
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The 5th Summer School “Visual Ethnography of Cityscapes” in Athens, co-organized by Ethnofest, the Netherlands Institute at Athens and VU University Amsterdam is getting closer (1-21 July).
Teaching staff will be joining the school from the University of Amsterdam (UvA), University of Leiden, Panteion University and the University of the Aegean. –> DEADLINE 10 MAY You can find more information …
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The Athens Ethnographic Film Festival – Ethnofest continues the exploration of the world through the ethnographic lens. For the upcoming festive tenth edition, Ethnofest is announcing a call for films that observe, feel and reflect upon cultures and the human condition, using theories and tools of anthropology and ethnography. The call is addressed to anthropologists …
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