The 2013|14 Topic of the Year ‘Zukunftsort: EUROPA’ at the
Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of Sciences and Humanities, in cooperation
with interfilm Berlin, the Deutsche Kinemathek, the Film and Television
University ‘Konrad Wolf’ (HFF) Potsdam and filmArche, calls on film-makers throughout Europe to participate by submitting films for the Forum EUROPE: UNLIMITED Competition.
Three prizes will be awarded: 1st Prize 2,500 € / 2nd Prize 1,000 € / 3rd Prize 500 €
The
short films submitted should find answers to the question: ‘Is there
such a thing as Europe and if so how many?’ All genres are permitted:
the short films can reveal points of view on Europe in narrative shorts,
animations, documentaries through to experimental film. The films
should be no more than three years old and no longer than ca. 15 minutes
in length. Closing date for submissions is 31 July 2014.
The
selected films will be presented in mid-November 2014 at the two-day
Forum EUROPE: UNLIMITED, at which topics of relevance to Europe will be
debated between academia and the public sphere. The highpoint of the
event is the award ceremony on 14 November 2014. On the online platform www.europe-unlimited.eu
some contributions can already be viewed and discussed in advance. The
submissions there are not necessarily part of the competition and may
not be more than three years old. More information and the competition
rules can be found here.
ABOUT EUROPE: UNLIMITED
Europe is
more than an institution, an economic and currency union. Europe is a
cultural and legal sphere with a definition that shifts depending on who
defines it and when, and who is presenting visions of the continent’s
future. Europe is thus always the place where Europe is being
re-designed – even in the current crises. The fact of Europe’s
heterogeneity is often obscured in public perceptions by a unitary
narrative of ‘Europe’. But is Europe a real, functioning place, or just a
group of places with shared outer borders? What holds Europe together
and what drives it apart – where do old solidarities end and new ones
form? How can people with very different ideas of life and different
cultural and social backgrounds successfully live together?
And how are we experiencing the current crises: as European - anti-European - global?
The
Forum EUROPE: UNLIMITED wants to encourage the discovery of new
narratives for Europe and to illuminate original wishes for the future.
Europe will be given complex expression in the Forum debates between
scholars and film-makers discussing around 20 selected films.THE COMPETITION
is
interested in individual points of view. It should not be about
academic analyses: rather, the submissions should reveal authentic
images of the current mood and describe large, small or just unusual
aspects of the diverse forms taken by Europe. We invite film-makers to
make their own contribution to fruitful dialogue at the interface
between art and academia, one that shakes off conventional thinking
about Europe and offers long-lasting inspiration for the future. Counter
monotony, and film for diversity!
EUROPE: UNLIMITED is made possible by the generous support of Stiftung Mercator.
