Closing Panel: Festival Practice as Reflective Space

Discussion with the Festival Coordination Team Regard Bleu 2025

Moderated by Nimal Bourloud, Arctic Voices & ciné liminal, University Bern

Together, we have journeyed from entering to closing (the) spaces. However, these spaces we have encountered over three inspirational days of exploring and discussing ethnographic film and its contents never truly close – they remain open. We invite you to join us at our closing event: a panel discussion featuring the student festival coordination team. As a team, we strive to make our process of organizing an ethnographic film festival transparent and to engage in critical discussions. We aim to present festival practice as a reflective space for everyone and, thus, to contribute to decolonisation processes as well.