Short Abstract

Call for Films (CFF) for the Film Programme of EASA 2026. The main theme is "Anthropology: Possibilities in a Polarised World".

Long Abstract

We are pleased to announce the Call for Films (CFF) for the Film Programme of EASA 2026 whose main theme is Anthropology: Possibilities in a Polarised World. The conference invites anthropologists, filmmakers, and visual researchers to reflect on how visual anthropology can respond to, challenge, or reimagine the polarising forces shaping our contemporary world.

We live in a moment marked by intensifying divisions. Political leaders and corporate interests continue to fracture communities, break apart solidarities, and impose authoritarian alignments. These trends, strengthening a world of stark oppositions, eroding possibilities for coexistence and mutual understanding. In contrast, anthropology has long worked to uncover entangled realities and foster relations grounded in equality, participation, and collaboration.

In this spirit, the EASA 2026 Film Programme welcomes ethnographic films of the length up to 90 minutes (although we recommend the submission of short films), which engage critically, ethically, and reflexively with the theme of the conference. We are particularly interested in films that experiment with form while contributing meaningfully to discussions around anthropological knowledge-making in and through the moving image.

We invite submissions that interrogate, disrupt, or reimagine anthropology's role in a polarised world. How can visual methods open up new spaces of dialogue, resistance, or care? What cinematic strategies might help us reveal or rebuild forms of interconnectedness? How do questions of representation, authorship, and collaboration shape the politics and ethics of ethnographic filmmaking today?

We encourage filmmakers to reflect, either implicitly or explicitly, on the aesthetic, ethical, methodological, and theoretical choices that guide their work. We are especially interested in films that consider the cinematic process itself (including filming, editing, and dissemination) as part of a broader anthropological inquiry or intervention.

This Film Programme has 25 pending film proposals.
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