The fifth edition of the conference is dedicated to voice, power and responsibility in documentary film and contemporary audiovisual culture.

This year's edition of the conference will be titled Whose Story Is It? and will focus on questions of voice, power, representation, and responsibility in documentary film as well as in broader contemporary audiovisual culture.

We are interested in who has the opportunity to tell their own story, who tells it on behalf of others, under what conditions, and with what consequences. The conference aims to open a space for a new language where creative freedom intersects with the rights, dignity, and vulnerability of the people whose experiences become part of a film. We ask how audiovisual creation can remain free, powerful, and socially relevant, while not taking power over the story of a person whose life, trauma, voice, or image it uses.

We will ask what it means to work with the real life of another person: what kind of relationship this creates and what responsibility the creators thereby assume. Important topics will include recognizability, dignity, impact, relationship, aftercare, shared responsibility, as well as the right not to be reduced to an image, a piece of evidence, a victim, or a symbol.

Below you will find the Call for Papers, which details the theme of this year's conference and the opportunities for participating with your research, professional work, or pedagogical practice.