4th EMFF - November 22nd - 24th Nov 2012. Husum/Hüsem, North Frisia

Welcome to the 4th European Minority Film Festival

The North Frisian Organisation - Friisk Foriining - is in charge of the organisation of the 4th European Minority Film Festival 2012.

Further information coming soon.

Programme

About the Film Festival

The EMFF is a film festival on a European level for feature films in minority languages, which means those authochtonous small nations and minorities in particular without a so-called kin-state in the background. These are e.g. the Frisians in the Netherlands and Germany, the Sorbs in Germany, the Sami in Scandinavia, the Welsh, Scottish and Cornish in Great Britain, Sinti and Roma, Rhaetians in Switzerland, Basques and Catalans in Spain or Bretons in France.

Within the framework of the festival five chosen feature films, all with English or German subtitles and all from different regions, will be shown on three evenings. Among these films an independant Jury will vote the winner of the European Minority Film Award 2010.

The festival is aimed at the cineastic minded people from North Friesland and other regions in Europe where small nations are situated. The organisers are expecting numerous representatives of the minorities and small nations which are organized in the Federal Union of European Nationalities. As guests actors and directors of certain feature films will also be invited.

 

The European Minority Film Festival is realised by:

And it is supported by:

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Info about previous festivals:
2006 | 2008

About the organisers: Friisk Foriining

In 2003 the Friisk Foriining (Frisian Society) celebrated its 80th anniversary. Founded under the name of 'Friesisch-Schleswiger Verein' in the year 1923, the society has always considered the Frisian language and culture as independent and therefore on equal terms with the other languages and cul tural groups within the German-Danish border area. The society's main objective is to maintain and to develop the Frisian language and the Frisian identity.

The Friisk Foriining has about 600 members. The Friisk Foriining regards the Frisians as being a people in their own right and an ethnic-autoch-thonous minority within Germany, comparable to the Sorbs in Lusatia. The most important objective is to protect and to promote the Frisian language and culture.

In cooperation with the Frisian youth organization 'Rökefloose' (flock of ravens, www.roekefloose.de) the Foriining arranges events for young people and leisure activities, among other things. During these arrangements Frisian is spoken. In the area of school education, the Friisk Foriining cooperates with the Dansk Skoleforening (Danish School Association of the Danish minority in Southern Schleswig). The Skoleforening offers Frisian lessons in some of its schools and, furthermore, runs the only school in which classes are conducted in Frisian on an equal footing with Danish and German (www.risumskole.de). The Foriining also arranges tours to other language minorities in Europe and offers a so-called 'Friisk Harfsthuuchschölj' for individuals and families every year.

The Friisk Foriining works close together with the 'Ferian för en Nuardfresk Radio' (Frisian Radio Association, www.ffnr.de) in order to support Frisian media and film activities. The radio association and the 'Rökefloose' are both members of the Friisk Foriining.