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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Dr Michael Sap­pol: „Queer Anatomies. Aes­thet­ics & per­verse desire in the anatom­i­cal image; Or, The Epis­te­mol­o­gy of the Anatom­i­cal Closet”

IMHAR Salon_Guest: Dr Michael Sap­pol: „Queer Anatomies”
17.Okt. 2025
16:00–17:30 h/4–5:30 p.m. CET

Mod­er­a­tion: PD Dr. Katha­ri­na Sabernig

in Eng­lish

Sex­u­al body-parts and same-sex desire were unmen­tion­ables in 18th- and 19th-cen­tu­ry Europe, debarred from polite con­ver­sa­tion and print­ed dis­course. Yet one sci­en­tif­ic discipline—anatomy—had license to rep­re­sent the inti­mate details of the human body—rectum and gen­i­talia includ­ed. The images of anato­my could be sober­ly tech­ni­cal, but just as often mon­strous, flir­ta­tious, the­atri­cal, beau­ti­ful. And sen­su­al. Anatom­i­cal fig­ures gave off heat, pro­vid­ed plea­sure and legit­i­ma­tion to the men who pro­duced and gazed upon, and col­lect­ed, rare books and art. For those men, Anato­my had a priv­i­leged sta­tus as a foun­da­tion­al sub­ject in art and med­ical ped­a­gogy, and in the ency­clo­pe­dic cur­ricu­lum of Enlight­en­ment dis­course. Philo­soph­i­cal, med­ical and aes­thet­ic com­pe­tence, all depend­ed on a secure knowl­edge of anatomy.
Yet our his­tor­i­cal actors didn’t open­ly declare their erot­ic inter­ests. If, as Eve Kosof­sky Sedg­wick argued, “closeted-ness…is a per­for­mance initiated…by the speech act of a silence,” then we need to peer into their tex­tu­al and rep­re­sen­ta­tion­al spaces, and decode their images and actions. Focus­ing on cel­e­brat­ed atlases and works that danced on the bor­der­line of respectabil­i­ty, Mike Sap­pol uses queer the­o­ry, close read­ing, and the com­par­a­tive method to recov­er the lost world of Enlight­en­ment and post-Enlight­en­ment queer anatomy.

Michael Sap­pol is a his­to­ri­an of the visu­al cul­ture of med­i­cine and sci­ence, and Vis­it­ing Researcher in the His­to­ry of Sci­ence & Ideas at Upp­sala Uni­ver­si­ty. He is the author of Queer Anatomies (2024), Body Mod­ern (2017), and A Traf­fic of Dead Bod­ies (2002). He is cur­rent­ly work­ing on a his­to­ry of pho­to­graph­ic anato­my and an explo­ration of the cul­tur­al pol­i­tics sur­round­ing anatom­i­cal objects and collections.

For reg­is­tra­tion mail to: anmelden@imhar.net.

IMHAR Insti­tute for Med­ical & Health Human­i­ties and Artis­tic Research
An-Insti­tut der HKS, Ottersberg
Große Straße 107
28870 Ottersberg
Deutschland

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Call_for_papers poster

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