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2025 Festival Festival

2025 Festival Call for Entries

The 2025 festival will be held in Paris on November 21st and 22nd, 2025.

Films with 2023, 2024 or 2025 copyright may apply.

Duration: more than 50 minutes
Subject matter: contemporary Japanese society
Languages: French, Japanese with French or English subtitles, English.

→ To compete please send an email to festival@fenetres-japon.fr including (1) a brief introduction of the filmmaker, (2) a summary of the film –which will appear on the festival site if the film is preselected –as well as (3) a link to an online copy of your film. Instead of a link you may also upload your film directly on the festival’s Seafile account using this link: https://seafile.communs.net/u/d/e1c58b9956154d00812d/.

Dates
– June 1st, 2025: deadline for reception of films
– Beginning of September: the selection committee preselects four films
– End of September: announcement of the preselected films which will be screened during the festival
– November 21st & 22nd: Festival

Organisation

Dimitri Ianni & Nicolas Pinet

Contact

festival@fenetres-japon.fr

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2023 Festival Festival

2023 Festival Call for Entries

The 2023 festival will be held in Paris on November 17th and 18th, 2023.

Films with 2021, 2022 or 2023 copyright may apply.

Duration: more than 50 minutes
Subject matter: contemporary Japanese society
Languages: French, Japanese with French or English subtitles, English.

→ To compete please send an email to festival@fenetres-japon.fr including (1) a brief introduction of the filmmaker, (2) a summary of the film –which will appear on the festival site if the film is preselected –as well as (3) a link to an online copy of your film. Instead of a link you may also upload your film directly on the festival’s Seafile account using this link: https://seafile.communs.net/u/d/e1c58b9956154d00812d/.

Dates
– June 1st, 2023: deadline for reception of films
– Beginning of September: the selection committee preselects four films
– End of September: announcement of the preselected films which will be screened during the festival
– November 17th & 18th: Festival

Organisation

Dimitri Ianni & Nicolas Pinet

Contact

festival@fenetres-japon.fr

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Documentary Film & Social Sciences

The documentary film festival “Fenêtres sur le Japon” (Windows on Japan) was born to explore further the many connections and intersections between the social sciences –particularly those using ethnography– and documentary films. Both are based on viewing the social world starting from fieldwork, that is from a more or less long period of proximity to the persons or places portrayed in these texts or films. Some social science researchers such as Jean Rouch or Eliane de Latour occasionally use cameras to express their observations through another medium. Some film-makers, like Mori Tatsuya, also extend their documentaries by means of books. This festival is meant to be a contribution to a continued dialogue between these two worlds with a place –Japan– as a starting point.