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This fifth edition invites artists to reflect and create at the intersection of body, landscape, and cinematic gesture.
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A Documentary Summer Camp-Lab Rooted in Nature. The deadline to apply is fast approaching: July 18.
DOC-CAMP 2025: Tactile Terrains, an immersive summer retreat and creative laboratory for emerging documentary filmmakers and media artists from the Western Balkans. The event will take place September 3–7, 2025, at the Pecka Visitor Center, a renowned eco-hub nestled in the pristine natural environment of Bosnia and Herzegovina. With the support of the Audio-Visual Center of the Republic of Srpska.
This fifth edition invites artists to reflect and create at the intersection of body, landscape, and cinematic gesture. Tactile Terrains proposes a gathering where the body and the territory are not metaphors but living matter. Cinema Paralleles invite filmmakers, artists, and scriptwriters to walk, sense, and create through a direct connection with the landscape and with each other. In a time of hyper-abstract connectivity, we return to the ground. To the tactile. To the primal gestures of inhabiting, observing, recording, and intervening. We are drawn to cinema made with the skin.
Cinema Parallels + Documentary Summer Camp is more than a residency: it’s a creative retreat where mountains, rivers, and fresh air frame the process of reconnecting with one’s project, with others, and with nature itself. The deadline to apply for DOC-CAMP 2025: Tactile Terrains is fast approaching, July 18 is your last chance to join one of the most inspiring creative retreats in the region.
What Participants Receive:
Selected participants will benefit from a fully covered experience, including:
- 4 nights accommodation at the Pecka Visitor Center
- All meals included
- Mentorship sessions with international and local filmmakers, producers, and scholars
- Workshops and hands-on labs in documentary development
- Co-writing support and project dossier guidance
- Pitch deck and financing strategy development
- Access to EU funding insights and industry networking
Note: Participants are responsible for their own transportation to Banja Luka.
Eligibility and How to Apply:
- Open to emerging filmmakers and artists from: Bosnia and Herzegovina, Serbia, North Macedonia, Albania, Croatia, Slovenia, Kosovo·, and Montenegro.
- Projects must be first or second feature-length documentaries or media art works in development.
- Required materials: synopsis, director’s statement, treatment, budget draft,
- and bios.
- No submission fee.
- APPLY: https://cinemaparallels.com/doc-camp-submissions
- Form:
https://docs.google.com/forms/d/13-M0ZsqRjK7GdLDnbPcrCphp9ZJjk-vwvqlgn74v3E0/edit
OPEN CALL: INTERNATIONAL SHORT FILM SELECTION
Cinema Parallels 2025 seeks compelling international short films (fiction, documentary, animation, experimental).
Eligibility & Submission Guidelines:
- Films must have premiered between January 2024 and May 2025.
- Maximum running time: 29 minutes.
- Appy by FilmFreeway
APPLY: https://filmfreeway.com/CinemaParallels for detailed submission forms and further information.