Jean Rouch International Festival

Datum
02. Okto­ber – 16. Novem­ber 2025 

Call for Films

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