Göttingen
24th - 28th May 2006
The festival is open to all filmmakers, but especially those from
anthropology, sociology, folklore and neighbouring disciplines.
Organised as an event in the heart of Europe, media from Central
and Eastern Europe will be accepted with particular interest.
It provides a great opportunity for international co-operation in
Visual Anthropology and documentary filmmaking.
The general aim of
the festival is:
- to promote documentary cinema in the context of
intra- and intercultural communication
- to give credit to new films, videos or interactive
media dealing with anthropology, sociology and cultural studies in
a wide sense of the term.
For the first time, the festival will also have some
topical highlights:
-The global and the local - how to deal with
ecological changes and scarce resources.
- Representing the Other on TV.
There will also be held round table discussion on
these topics.
A special event is the Student Competition with a
prize awarded to the best student film. Films by filmmakers who
were students at the time of the film's date of publication qualify
for the competition.
All submitted films for the Student Competition and
the Main Festival will be reviewed by an international selection
committee consisting of six outstanding visual anthropologists.