Screening of the SPOTLIGHT Films at Opolskie Lamy Film Festival
Please join us at the Opolskie Lamy Film Festival, where SPOTLIGHT will present 4 short documentary films created during the 5th edition of the SPOTLIGHT Summer School in Bolzano/Bozen. Created by students from different academic backgrounds, their projects explore the everyday life, identities, memories and transformations of a city shaped by multiple languages and perspectives. Through different forms of visual storytelling, the films invite us to look at Bolzano from new a
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Spotlight on Bolzano: Screening of the Students’ Films
On September 19, we gathered in Bolzano for the screening of the films created during this year’s SPOTLIGHT Summer School, exploring the theme “Bolzano. History: Nostalgia or Utopia?” Students from different academic backgrounds and from across Europe and beyond explored the city through film, offering their own perspectives on its histories, memories, everyday life and possible futures. The screening was a wonderful opportunity to discover Bolzano through new eyes. It also m
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Spotlight on Bolzano-Bozen
We are delighted to invite applications for the 5th edition of the SPOTLIGHT Summer School , that will take place in Bolzano–Bozen , Italy, from 13 to 20 September 2026 . We invite MA and PhD students to explore documentary filmmaking as a research method and a mode of knowledge production. The 2026 edition turns to Bolzano-Bozen, a city of layered histories and contested temporalities. Through audiovisual methods, participants will investigate how memory, identity, and bel
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Spotlight on Bucharest and Its (more than)human Inhabitants
The Spotlight team has returned to Bucharest with a fresh, more-than-human perspective. With invaluable support from our partners — such as the Centre for Governance and Culture in Europe at the University of St. Gallen (GCE-HSG), New Europe College (NEC), and UNATC — we organised the 4th edition of the Spotlight Summer School, which took place from September 21 to 28. During this week-long program, 12 PhD and MA students from across Europe and beyond immersed themselves in t
Oct 14, 20252 min read
Spotlight on Bucharest, 2nd edition
Film screening at UNATC on September 27, 2025 Spotlight has returned to Bucharest, Romania. Last week, another edition of the Spotlight...
Oct 1, 20251 min read
Spotlight on Bucharest
We are excited to invite applications for the fourth edition of the "Spotlight Summer School on Documentary Filmmaking in Social...
Apr 3, 20251 min read
Spotlight on Bucharest, Romania
The 3rd Spotlight Summer School took place from September 8 to 15 in Bucharest, Romania. It was organised in collaboration with two new...
Dec 20, 20242 min read
