We are opening the online submission for the DEF 2023 festival. The event will be held in March 2023 and will take place at the Slovenian Cinematheque.
Submissions are possible until November 1, 2022, please read also our regulations. The registration form can be found here. You are welcome!
We need to notify you of a minor program change. Due to the absence of the author, the conversation with Lisbet Holtedahl will be replaced by a conversation about her work with individual film excerpts, led by dr. Sarah Lunaček, Department of Ethnology and Cultural Anthropology, Faculty of Arts, and Manca Filak, Institute of Slovene Ethnography, ZRC SAZU.
Thank you for your understanding.
The international film festival Days of Ethnographic Film 2022 is thematically dedicated to visual anthropologist Lisbet Holtedahl, a professor emerita at the Norwegian University of Tromsø. Since the 1960s, she has researched women’s everyday lives and ever-changing societies in Cameroon, Niger and in Norway. She is an internationally recognised author of ethnographic and documentary films. Continue reading
Media reports about festival, authors and films.
We are pleased to announce that the program of the festival DEF 2021 is ready! Due to the Covid-19 pandemic, all films will be screened between March 3rd and 6th virtually on the platform vimeo.com/showcase/def2021. Along the films there will also be recorded discussions with the authors. The information on the selected films is available on this link.
The films will be available for free, however viewers will need to apply for the festival will have to register. Once you applies, we will send you a password the day before the festival officially opens.
You are welcome to apply!
Our decision on how we will proceed with the festival will be known in the second part of January 2021. If we are not postponing the event in March, we will also simultaneously inform all candidates, which films are selected by our selection committee.
And thank to all authors, distributors, and producers for submitting your films.
We are extending our online conference Aspects of Visual Ethnography in Slovenia until 22nd of November.
We also published online discussion (in Slovene) .
Today we are opening the online festival DEF 2020. The event was postponed in March 2020 due to known reasons, and we later decided to organize it online. All contributions will be freely available during the event at https://vimeo.com/showcase/def2020, that is between between 9th and 15th of November.
Festival program includes 12 video items (films or visual supplements) and 12 videos on the Vimeo platform. Additional information is available in our catalog.
The postponed event will take place between 9th and 15th November on the Vimeo online platform. Just before the start, detailed information for registration or access will be published in our web page. The catalog was already published since spring and can be found at this link.