Prof. Dr. Annuska DerksCo-Director of the ISEK (Department of Social Anthropology and Cultural Studies), University of Zurich Saada ElabedFestival Director, PhD Candidate, Director Regard Bleu 2020-2025, University of Zurich Amir Mommartz & Ella PoniatowskiFestival Coordinators, Regard Bleu 2025 Team, University of Zurich

Moderated by Lena Oberholzer & Meret Namaï Weiss We invite you to enter the world of ethnographic films and stories. In this session you can gain a glimpse of the multiple spaces opening during this festival. By joining us on a journey through the diversity of places and voices, visually and emotionally, it may be […]

Keynote by Barbara PietàLocation: Lecture HallPart of Workshop I What does an anthropology of care look like? What types of images – and more specifically, what ways of looking at care relations – has this scholarship generated? And how has (or how can) visual anthropology further transform these ways of seeing? If, as we argue, […]

Facilitated by Barbara Pietà & Paolo FaveroCo-organized with Olivia Killias & Saada ElabedLocation: Seminar Room How do we see, document, and respectfully represent acts of care that tend to be made invisible, despite their central role in the maintenance of healthy social relations, and indeed of society at large? This workshop proposes to explore the […]

Moderated by Selma Schenkel & Eva Frutig Bridging Spaces explores the fluidity of identity, memory, and belonging across cultures and generations. Through three different films, we navigate personal and collective histories, witnessing journeys of return, remembrance, and reconciliation. Each story acts as a bridge, linking past and present, silence and expression, roots and movement, self […]

Guided by Frederik GüntenspergerLocation: outside/inside the museum, starts at the main entrance to the Botanical Garden Come on, we live in 2025 and public buildings are accessible! Make up your own mind. Frederik will provide wheelchairs for participants to access the Ethnographic Museum, a building of the University of Zurich, so you can understand what […]

The screening will be followed by a discussion with special guests Wucha Wulan Dari & Yuefei You Moderated by Annisa Hartoto Focus: Indonesia What happens in the in-between? There are border spaces, for example between past and present, memories and the forgotten, the seen and the unseen. The Liminal Spaces session explores transitional spaces in […]

Moderated by Miri Rizvi & Hannah Eileen Grobet What happens when home, people and landscapes are no longer within reach? Through personal and courageous examinations of loss, these films explore what it means to navigate spaces that have changed or vanished – whether through forced movement, colonialism, war or environmental disasters. Can one re-enter them […]

Moderated by Amir Mommartz & Ella Poniatowski The screening and Q&As will be followed by a discussion with the curators and willing participants from the audience. With Saturday’s final session we aim to leave a mark on the viewers’ senses. Whether it be in a society, mind, or body, embracing a space often necessitates adjustment. […]

A Hands-On Workshop on Space in Filmmaking and Multimodal Production Facilitated by Tobi AkindeCo-organized with Saada ElabedLocation: Seminar Room This workshop examines the role of space as both a subject and collaborator in filmmaking and multimodal works. Central to the workshop is the exploration of ‘liminal spaces’: those in-between realms where the familiar meets the […]

Moderated by Milena Fischer & Fabiana Merz Enriquez These three films tend to physical, emotional and social spaces, where healing, support and connection occur, hence, to spaces of care. They explore the many ways care is embodied, practiced, and experienced within different environments throughout everyday life, and how we create and navigate these spaces. Babini […]

Moderated by Maria Hansen & Meret Namaï Weiss Finally, we will delve into non-spaces: places that do not yet exist, that remain unseen or need to be created. These films explore different aspects of non-spaces: personal and social boundaries, identity and (in)visibility. They tell of resistance, self-empowerment and the struggle for visibility. Afterwards, the closing […]

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 […]