About the festival

Regard Bleu is an ethnographic film festival that is held biennially at the Ethnographic Museum at the University of Zurich. Since its first edition in 2001, Regard Bleu is exclusively dedicated to students’ productions. Over the years, the festival has grown into an interdisciplinary platform for ethnographic and socially relevant film from a broad range of fields and institutions. As such the festival is not only screening films but aims at furthering a critical engagement with and fruitful discussions about current trends in anthropological filmmaking and beyond. Not limited to any specific academic discourse or thematic restriction Regard Bleu is an open space for projects from a wide range of fields that embrace contemporary culture and society through audio-visual media productions. For further information please visit our website regardbleu.ch.

Since 2016 Regard Bleu is conceptualized and organized by students of the ISEK (Department of Social Anthropology and Cultural Studies) over the course of a seminar.

Thank you for an amazing 16th edition!

A heartfelt thank you to everyone who helped make the 16th edition of the Regard Bleu Ethnographic Film Festival such a memorable experience — to the students of the organisation team, all the filmmakers, audiences, volunteers, and partners, we couldn’t have done it without you!

Regard Bleu is now hibernating until the next team of students brings it back to life. Stay tuned for the next edition!

If you have any questions about the festival in the meantime, feel free to reach out to elabed@vmz.uzh.ch.