Sections open for submission

The sections open for submission for the Athens Ethnographic Film Festival – Ethnofest are:

SIGHTS FOR SORE EYES 

In this broader and renewed section, we invite human and socially oriented documentaries from all over the world, from both established and new filmmakers. Films that challenge our perspectives and question our certainties about the lived social realities on the planet. Films that build on, reappropriate and transcend established forms with experimental and visual narratives, constituting representative examples of the multiple forms that creative documentary and ethnographic approaches can offer.

Eligible are the films – feature or short – that have not previously been publicly screened (commercially or at festivals) in Athens.

Submission Fee: 5 EUR

INITIATIONS: INTERNATIONAL STUDENT FILMS

Student and academic documentaries can be innovative, bold, and uncompromising, offering a glimpse into the future. This section showcases a selection of the best documentaries produced as part of educational programs worldwide. We are interested in films with a maximum duration of 30 minutes, created in social science departments (such as visual anthropology and visual sociology), but we also wish to highlight films from film and media studies departments that employ ethnographic methodology.

Eligible are the films with maximum duration of 30 minutes that have not previously been publicly screened (commercially or at festivals) in Athens.

Note: Films longer than 30 minutes, produced as part of doctoral dissertations, can be submitted to the section Sights For Sore Eyes.

Submission Fee: 3 EUR

INITIATIONS: STUDENT FILMS IN GREECE

This section presents the best and most recent student documentaries produced in various film and social science departments in Greece, with a focus on ethnographic approaches and socially oriented documentaries.

With the aim of supporting the voices of the future, the films in the section will be eligible for an award, which includes a cash prize of 500 EUR.

Eligible are the films with a maximum duration of 30 minutes that have not previously been publicly screened (commercially or at festivals) in Athens.

Note: Films longer than 30 minutes, produced as part of doctoral dissertations, can be submitted to the section Sights For Sore Eyes.

Submission Fee: 3 EUR