Call for Films for the next edi­tion of the „Jean Rouch Inter­na­tion­al Festival”

We are pleased to announce the open­ing of the call for films for the 45th edi­tion of the Jean Rouch Inter­na­tion­al Fes­ti­val, which will be held from May 7 to 14, 2026.

Our pur­pose is to reflect the vital­i­ty of social sci­ences research and to give an insight into the diver­si­ty, cre­ativ­i­ty, and orig­i­nal­i­ty of cin­e­mat­ic gen­res and narratives.

Sub­mis­sions are open until Novem­ber 16, 2025

for doc­u­men­tary films com­plet­ed after Novem­ber 17, 2024 (dead­line for the pre­vi­ous call for films).

The entry fee is €10 per film until Octo­ber, 19th then €15 from Octo­ber, 20th.

Please sub­mit your films as soon as possible:
https://filmfreeway.com/JeanRouchInternationalFilmFestival

All mem­bers of the pro­gram­ming com­mit­tee are look­ing for­ward to dis­cov­er­ing your films!

For any infor­ma­tion request, please con­tact: submissionsjeanrouchfestival@gmail.com
The last edi­tion of the fes­ti­val on video

For the first time, thanks to the amaz­ing work of Léa Bernard, Célimène Mar­rac­ci, Inga Pet­rosyan, Lisa Rame­court, Noame Toumi­at et Osman Yıl­maz, stu­dents at EHESS, we inter­viewed the film­mak­ers who attend­ed the fes­ti­val in 2025!

Farah Kassem, Ruth Beck­er­mann, Emmanuel Gri­maud, Mat­ti­js van de Port, Cate­ri­na Pasquali­no, Pas­cal Cesaro, Anu­pa­ma Srini­vasan et Anir­ban Dut­ta… They explain how their film was made and give their vision of doc­u­men­tary cinema.

Watch it now on YouTube and on our new Canal U channel!

A project coor­di­nat­ed by:

Béné­dicte Bar­il­lé, Tilou Mar­tin, Gaia Mar­i­ana Rangel Pena­gos, Michel Tabet, Alex­ia Van­hée, Nina Wöhrel

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Eben Kirk­sey: „Virus­es Make Us Think”

Fri­day, Octo­ber 3, 2025, 12:00 – 1:30 pm (Pacif­ic Time)

Crea­tures through­out the ani­mal kingdom—from mice, to insects, to humans—use viral par­ti­cles in their brains to trans­mit infor­ma­tion among nerve cells. Viral infec­tions are inte­gral in long-term mem­o­ry for­ma­tion. Over half of the human genome is viral in ori­gin, and biol­o­gists are just start­ing to under­stand how ancient infec­tions have shaped the human con­di­tion. Before the role of virus­es in mem­o­ry for­ma­tion was under­stood, Don­na Har­away mar­veled at a “coor­di­nat­ed sym­pho­ny” of human cells and microbes which work togeth­er to “make the con­scious me pos­si­ble.” Build­ing on Haraway’s provoca­tive claim “we have nev­er been human,” I sug­gest: “we have always been viral.” This talk will con­sid­er a num­ber of inter­re­lat­ed ques­tions: Can virus­es think? Are they even alive? Is human con­scious­ness a hybrid mul­ti­species coproduction?

Eben Kirk­sey is Pro­fes­sor of Anthro­pol­o­gy at the Uni­ver­si­ty of Oxford where he teach­es Med­ical Anthro­pol­o­gy and Human Ecol­o­gy. He earned his PhD at the Uni­ver­si­ty of Cal­i­for­nia, San­ta Cruz, and helped found one of the world’s first Envi­ron­men­tal Human­i­ties pro­grams at UNSW Syd­ney in Aus­tralia. Eben is per­haps best known for his work in mul­ti­species ethnog­ra­phy. Duke Uni­ver­si­ty Press pub­lished his first two books–Freedom in Entan­gled Worlds (2012) and Emer­gent Ecolo­gies (2015)–as well as two edit­ed col­lec­tions The Mul­ti­species Salon (2014) and The Promise of Mul­ti­species Jus­tice (2022). St. Martin’s Press pub­lished The Mutant Project (2020), a book that fol­lows some of the world’s first genet­i­cal­ly mod­i­fied people.

More details and links to Eben’s pub­li­ca­tions are on-line: https://eben-kirksey.space/

TO PRE-REGISTER FOR THIS EVENT, SEND AN EMAIL TO:

Sacff10325@gmail.com

You will receive your Zoom invi­ta­tion short­ly thereafter.
If you can­not find your invi­ta­tion, please check your spam/junk folders.

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