The Taiwan International Ethnographic Film Festival (Taiwan) is accepting films until April 10, 2025.

About the festival:
TIEFF is the longest running ethnographic film festival in Asia. For nearly 25 years, we have showcased outstanding ethnographic films from Taiwan and around the world, introducing the Taiwanese public to a wide variety of anthropological topics while highlighting the contributions of film as a medium. By moving ethnography off of the page and onto the screen, the festival seeks both to attract new audiences to the discipline of anthropology as well as to push the boundaries of ethnography. In addition to the main festival in Taipei, TIEFF also sponsors a touring festival in which we bring a portion of the selected films to communities and campuses across Taiwan.

The theme for the 2025 TIEFF, “Fables of De/Industrialization” invites us to explore the material and mythic qualities of de/industrialization. Through ethnographic films that focus on the fabulous—and often uncanny—experiences of infrastructures, ruin and ruination, and displacement, we hope to trace what Rob Nixon has called the “slow violence” of socio-economic transformation.

Eligibility:
– The festival is an ethnographic film festival, as such, all films should display an “ethnographic sensibility”.
– All films submitted must have been completed between January 1, 2023 and January 1, 2024.
– Fiction films, experimental art films, biographies, sports documentaries, and films about musicians must be accompanied by a statement regarding their suitability for the festival.
– Films on any topic will be considered, but special consideration will be given to films that match the festival theme.
– Entries in any language other than either English or Chinese should be subtitled in one of those two languages.
– The festival is open to films/videos made in all formats.
– Films must be submitted via FilmFreeway.
– Submission Fee: FREE
– Deadline: April 10, 2025
– Notification Date: August 11, 2025

We recommend filmmakers to read the full Rules and Regulations here: https://filmfreeway.com/TIEFF (This is also the submission link)

We remind readers that the 13th Taiwan International Ethnographic Film Festival will take place from October 16 – 20, 2025 in Taipei, Taiwan.

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