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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Online lec­ture titled “Nuclear repa­ra­tions 80 years lat­er: The Trin­i­ty Down­winders receive mod­est com­pen­sa­tion” by Tina Cor­do­va, New Mex­i­can Down­winder and grass­roots activist. Tina is the co-founder of the Tularosa Basin Down­winders Con­sor­tium (TBDC) whose mis­sion is to bring atten­tion to and jus­tice for the neg­a­tive health effects suf­fered by the unknow­ing, inno­cent vic­tims of the Trin­i­ty Test (the first det­o­na­tion of a nuclear weapon). 

More Info: https://www.reparationsresearch.eu/lectures/downwinders.

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Call out for papers at the Uni­ver­si­ty of Leeds Cen­tre for Dis­abil­i­ty Stud­ies Con­fer­ence in April 2026: „Nav­i­gat­ing the Chang­ing Land­scape of Disability/Studies”

The call for papers is avail­able here: https://disability-studies.leeds.ac.uk/conference/call-for-papers/ which has links through to the sub­mis­sion system.

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