NORIENT FESTIVAL Bern (Switzerland)
THE WORLD THROUGH SOUND AND IMAGE
The NORIENT FESTIVAL explores the contemporary world through music and sound. We are looking for films that portray musicians, music, sound, and noise as seismographs of our time, and speak to the possibilities and challenges of the now. We screen documentaries mainly, but are open to feature films, short movies, video art, and experimental formats. Our goal is to nominate films that are getting close to people and phenomena. Films screened at the NORIENT FESTIVAL have won important awards or were nominated at major international A festivals, some have been produced very DIY and low budget. We are especially interested in films by filmmakers from outside of Europe and the U.S.
The NORIENT FESTIVAL is run by the team of Norient and the Norient Space «The Now In Sound» (www.norient.com). Norient was founded 2002. It is a platform/magazine/network for the sound of the world: for contemporary music, quality journalism, cutting-edge research, and multimedia projects.
The NORIENT FESTIVAL opens a window to contemporary music and media cultures - the now in sound. Located in Bern, Switzerland, the festivals brings together artists, thinkers, and filmmakers from all over the world with a truly dedicated audience. We tell new stories from today's world from multiple perspectives with captivating film and concert events and find new ways of discussing relevant issues of our time with audiovisual performances, DJ sets, and experimental formats. The collective exchange of a global community is and remains a core concern of the festival.
We take pride in our film program and make a big effort to find strong films. We spend a lot of time viewing all the entries, and we finally official nominate a handful of very strong films. The official nomination is our award. For the moment we decided not to introduce an audience award.
We do not offer prizes, but we invite some of the filmmakers to our festival, or we offer screening fees.
We further publish background articles about the nominated films on the well visited NORIENT SPACE «The Now In Sound».
