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**Crossings: Stories of Migration** (June-September 2017) is an ICA-led
UK-wide film and events programme supported by the BFI using National
Lottery funding, in partnership with the Goethe-Institut and the School
of Film & Television, Falmouth University.

We live in an age of migration. Driven by political and military
conflicts, the pressures and possibilities of increasingly globalised
economies, climate change and the desire for a better life, more people
than ever move and live across borders. These are diverse trajectories;
each journey has its own story and each story its own
journey, traversing different landscapes and carrying with it its own
past.

Through a programme of screenings and events, *Crossings* explores the
stories of modern-day migration and reflects on cinema's potential to
interrogate the damaging ways in which migration is often framed.
Including a variety of documentary and fiction features, the programme
engages with transnational crossings from the last five decades through
different forms of aesthetically innovative storytelling.

As part of the *Crossings* project, the ICA intends to curate scholarly
and creative responses to the issues raised by the season, which will be
hosted on their dedicated website <https://www.crossings2017.co.uk/>

The website is intended to function as an ongoing repository for a range
of essays, short films, film essays, reviews, and scholarly endeavour
which will live on past the screening season itself.

[Please note: *Crossings* will run throughout the summer, and as such,
we are as interested in responses to the screenings as we are in
pre-existing or 'anticipatory' work; therefore, a further call for
submissions will be made in early Autumn.]{.underline}

We welcome any proposals, and wish to take a flexible and imaginative
approach to format and length, but academic and creative work from
undergraduate and postgraduate students and ECRs are particularly
welcome.

Topics may include, but are not limited to:

- Transnational communication
- Migration and diasporic community
- Borders and transgressions
- The physical and metaphorical journey of migration
- Migration, power and agency
- The political contexts of migration
- Repression and 'Othering'
- The reproduction or breaching of stereotypes around migration

Please send a brief (500-1000 word) abstract with short bio to
[laura.canning@falmouth.ac.uk](mailto:laura.canning@falmouth.ac.uk){target="_blank"}
including the term "Crossings" in your subject heading.   Deadline for
initial submissions: Friday August 4^th^ 2017.

*Crossings* brings together leading commentators, critics and
contributors from across various cultural and political contexts to
create a rigorous yet diverse platform for discussion to explore
migration from both global and local perspectives. Engaging with ethical
and political questions raised by representing these narratives on
screen, the season aims to open space for dialogue at a time when this
is more urgent than ever. For further details on the schedule of films
and venues, please see
[https://www.crossings2017.co.uk/](https://www.crossings2017.co.uk/){target="_blank"}


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 Crossings: Stories of Migration
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(June-September 2017) is an ICA-led UK-wide film and events programme supported by the BFI using National Lottery funding, in partnership with the Goethe-Institut and the School of Film &amp; Television, Falmouth University. We live in an age of migration.

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Call for Papers, Film Essays, Short Films: “Crossings: Stories of Migration”. Deadline: Aug 4, 2017.