Student Project
The Cine-Volos Quartier, ed. 2025
As part of the second edition of The Neighborhood of Cine Volos Festival (4–9 November 2025), students from the Department of Communication & Internet Studies (CUT) and the Ethnographic Research Lab played a central role in designing, documenting, and animating some of the festival’s community-based activities. The students produced an interactive map based on the residents’ stories, under the supervision of Ianthi Papadema, and an ethnographic film, under the supervision of Yorgos Servetas.
Students organized one of the “Discussing at the Kafeneion” sessions, where they facilitated dialogues between residents, students, and artists. The session was named“Small Places, Large Issues.”
Through documentary filmmaking, students produce visual works documenting neighborhood life, while last year’s film was featured in the open-air screenings at Cine Volos Park.
Throughout the semester, students engaged in hands-on ethnographic practice: observing interactions, collecting stories, and experimenting with multimodal forms of representation. Their work reflects the ethos of multimodal ethnography — research as collaboration, documentation as encounter, and film as a form of community dialogue.
The Cine-Volos student-led project was supported by the Learning Development Network of the Cyprus University of Technology
