Fellowship Programme 2025/26

Within a nine-month seminar programme, these 20 selected SİNEMApluralfellows will engage with and critically explore the foundations of film education and mediation practices.

SİNEMAplural builds on the practice of SİNEMA TRANSTOPIA and aims to broaden the perspectives of film mediation in Germany, foster new access points and viewpoints, and develop innovative, diversity-oriented, and power-critical approaches. The program is designed to activate and apply underrepresented and overlooked knowledge and to collaboratively develop and test forward-thinking strategies for film mediation and curatorial practice in real-world projects.

Each fellow will design and implement an individual project during the course of the program, supported by an allocated project budget.

Dates – Fellowship Cohort 2025/26

20 June 2025 – Selection interviews for shortlisted fellows
11 July 2025 – Public programme launch
12 July 2025 – Introduction (internal: fellows and project team)

19–21 September 2025 – MODULE 1
Decentering Film History/Histories

17–19 October 2025 – MODULE 2
Racism and Film: Between Harmful and Empowering Images

21–23 November 2025 – MODULE 3
Watching Film: Understanding and Experiencing

12–14 December 2025 – MODULE 4
Listening to Film: Sound, Music, Language, Translation

23–25 January 2026 – MODULE 5
Cinema as a Social Space: Film Culture, Institution, Resistance

27 February–1 March 2026 – MODULE 6
Right to Heritage – Right to the City: Memory Culture, Postcolonial Heritage in Berlin

10 July 2026 – SİNEMAplural Certificate Award Ceremony

Schedule:
Friday: 15:00–18:00 + evening programme
Saturday: 10:00–18:00
Sunday: 10:00–17:00

 

The fellowship is free of charge. Participation in all dates is mandatory.
The language of the programme is German.