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Sections open for submission

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

Student films

The most interesting aspect of postgraduate degrees on Visual Anthropology (or related programmes like visual sociology, visual culture) is the fact that students need to submit a film as part of their thesis and not a typical dissertation. These films often are pioneering, bold and incisive projecting the future of visual ethnography and in general of social sciences.

In this section of the festival, we present a selection of student films from all over the world.

Panorama 

In this section, we invite, explore and showcase the forefront in ethnographic, anthropological and social science filmmaking created by established filmmakers as well as by new talents.

Panorama is an outlook on the state of contemporary ethnographic cinema.

Filmic Experiments in Ethnography

The aim of this section is to present films that experiment with the mediums, forms, narrative techniques and practices of ethnographic filmmaking. These films create new visual and sensorial experiences and provide new pathways to anthropological analyses.

Themed Section

Wishing to initiate a dialogue on the value and relevance of visual anthropological perspectives on contemporary social life, the Festival has introduced a themed section of screenings relating to social issues and visual/anthropological viewpoints about them. These screenings underline the significance of documenting and analyzing the contemporary social reality and its topical aspects.

Usually the Themed Section is curated by an invited guest under the co-ordination of the Ethnofest team and our academic project manager, Pafsanias Karathanasis. The topic of the section is announced along with the call for films.
Previous themed sections include:

  • 2021 Romanticism: Camera, Enchantment and the Real, guest curated by Konstantinos Kalatzis (University of Thessaly)
  • 2020 Brexit Revisited, guest curated by Theodoros Rakopoulos (University of Oslo)
  • 2019 Contested gentrification in times of change, curated by the Ethnofest team with Pafsanias Karathanasis (Panteion University)
  • 2018 Critical Encounters: the European Refugee Crisis, guest curators Katerina Rozakou (VU Amsterdam) and Ifigeneia Anastasiadi (Panteion University of Social and Political Sciences)
  • 2017 Filming Labour and Precarity, guest curated by Dimitra Kofti (Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology) and Mao Mollona (Goldsmiths College, University of London)
  • 2016 Through Cyprus with the cinematic camera, guest curated by Pafsanias Karathanasis and Despo Pasia (UCL)
  • 2015 Images of Desire in Different Times of Crisis, guest curated by Irene Avramopoulou (Panteion University)
  • 2014 Xenophobia, guest curated by Dafni Sofianopoulou and Christos Varvantakis (Goldsmiths College, University of London)