EFM Event Schedule 2025

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The full version of the EFM Event Schedule is displayed below if you are registered for the EFM with an (Online) Market Badge and logged into your account.
Events are constantly added and updated up until and during the market.

Please note:
The information on this page refers to the European Film Market 2025.
All VODs will be accessible with your login account until the end of May 2025.

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Archive Market

Access: Market Badge & Online Market Badge Organiser: EFM

Description

The Archive Market provides participants with expertise from archives, archive producers and researchers - a whole day to meet up with the top of the archive representatives and for speed datings with some of the best archive researchers and producers.

Tags: #Archives

Tue Feb 18 11:00 – 18:00 Café Connect at Documentation Centre for Displacement, Expulsion, Reconciliation

on-site only

Archive Speed Consultations

Access: On pre-registration Organiser: EFM Type: Consultation With: GRAP

Description

15-minute-consultations: GRAP (German Researchers and Archive Producers) are experienced with international clients and in finding the right archives for your project - worldwide. They are experts in rights clearance, workflows and budgets relating to archive and third party material.

Tags: #Archives

Tue Feb 18 11:00 – 13:00 Café Connect at Documentation Centre for Displacement, Expulsion, Reconciliation

on-site only

Café Talk - Learn from an Expert: How to Best Access Archives

With: Vanessa Christoffers-Trinks (she/her), Elizabeth Klinck (she/her) Access: Market Badge & Online Market Badge Organiser: EFM Type: Talk With: GRAP

Description

German Archive Producer Vanessa Christoffers-Trinks will give valuable insights into how best to access the German national and municipal archives and German public broadcasters. Moderator is Elizabeth Klinck an Archive Producer from Canada.

Tags: #Archives #Producers

Tue Feb 18 14:00 – 14:45 Café Connect at Documentation Centre for Displacement, Expulsion, Reconciliation

on-site only

Café Talk - Archive Yourself?!

With: Elisa Jochum (she/her), Jennifer Borrmann (she/her) Access: Market Badge & Online Market Badge Organiser: EFM Type: Talk With: Dt. Kinematik

Description

Film preservation is about the future of film. How is your data – and integrated third-party material – organised and stored? Let’s talk about what we as the archive can do in terms of researching & archiving, but also what you can do to archive yourself and prepare the safekeeping of your work.

Tags: #Archives

Tue Feb 18 14:45 – 15:30 Café Connect at Documentation Centre for Displacement, Expulsion, Reconciliation

on-site only

Archival Filmmaking: Dismantling the Construction of the Past

With: Timoteus Anggawan Kusno (he/him), Juanjo Pereira (he/him), Ivana Urízar (she/her), Elizabeth Klinck (she/her) Access: Market Badge & Online Market Badge Organiser: EFM Type: Talk

Description

The archive talk spotlights the creative process of archival filmmaking with a focus on dedication to the truth. How do filmmakers manage the challenges to keep balance of gate keeping and rewriting our collective memories by mixing archive material, fiction, AI and classical documentary filmmaking?

Tags: #Archives #Innovation #Documentary #Tech

Tue Feb 18 17:00 – 18:00 Event Hall at Documentation Centre for Displacement, Expulsion, Reconciliation

VOD available

Archive Market Apéro Co-Hosted by IMAGO

Access: Market Badge & Online Market Badge Organiser: EFM Type: Networking Event With: Imago

Description

EFM and IMAGO – a Berlin-based global leader in visual content and one of the world’s largest photo agencies – invite you to celebrate the Archive Market! Join us for a drink, expand your network, exchange ideas, and kick-start potential partnerships.

Tags: #DocSalon #Archives

Tue Feb 18 18:30 – 19:30 Café Connect at Documentation Centre for Displacement, Expulsion, Reconciliation

on-site only