The 12th Edition of Ethnofest is here!

Friday November 19th, 2021

The Athens Ethnographic Film Festival – Ethnofest is coming back for its 12th hybrid edition! Documentaries from all over the world, voices of youth and others of experience, social, cultural and personal quests are landing to big and smaller screens only to remind us that we are part of a mosaic that is constantly transforming …
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New project with Medina

Wednesday June 23rd, 2021

We are happy to announce our new project, the production of two short educational videos for the Mediterranean Institute for Nature and Anthropos. MedINA (https://med-ina.org/) is running two projects focusing in the cheese and the bread. Both of these products have significant cultural value associated with the dietary and food-producing identity of local communities and …
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Browse the new Ethnofest website

Tuesday June 22nd, 2021

We are very proud to announce that the new edition of our website is now accessible and easily navigated by people with sight impairments, according to WCAG 2.1 criteria. By clicking on the distinguishable round button on the right bottom of the web-page, visitors can choose among different options and tools which make it easier …
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Call for submissions is now closed

Saturday June 12th, 2021

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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Submission of Films | Ethnofest 2021

Friday March 26th, 2021

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.

Ethnofest’s Next Steps

Wednesday March 10th, 2021

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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Summer School Ι Applications Now Open

Tuesday March 9th, 2021

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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Submission of Films for the 11th Athens Ethnographic Film Festival – Ethnofest

Monday May 18th, 2020

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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On our way to the 11th Athens Ethnographic Film Festival.

Friday March 27th, 2020

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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ETHNOFEST: A REAL SENSE OF WHAT’S COOKING IN VISUAL ANTHROPOLOGY

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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