Campus Magazin Filmakademie Baden-Württemberg 22/23

ICLA 2.0
THE INTERNATIONAL CLASS AT THE FILMAKA-
DEMIE IS A UNIQUE INTERDISCIPLINARY PRO-
GRAM WHICH HAS BEEN DESIGNED TO HOST
GUEST STUDENTS FROM ALL OF FABW’S PART-
NER INSTITUTIONS FOR THE DURATION OF ONE
SEMESTER. THROUGH THE UNIQUE MIX OF EACH
YEAR’S GROUP, IT HAS BECOME AN INCUBA-
TOR FOR FILM PROJECTS THAT ARE CROSSING
BOUNDARIES, AND FOR PERSONAL CONNEC-
TIONS WHICH ARE REACHING FAR BEYOND THE
DURATION OF THE SEMESTER ON CAMPUS. ICLA
2.0 IS ENTIRELY TAUGHT IN ENGLISH.
On Monday, April 4th, 23 international guest students
picked up their studies at the Filmakademie. They were
the first ones to attend the new edition of the International
Class – ICLA 2.0 – which ran until mid-August.
The course had undergone a thorough redesign since its
last edition under Covid-19 conditions in the Winter of
2020/2021. This last ICLA had consisted of 16 participants.
The class of 2022 shifted to the Spring term and
it grew in size, to 23 students from thirteen countries,
eleven of them non-European. Most of the participants
receive a Baden-Wuerttemberg STIPENDIUM, as well as
grants from the Federal Foreign Office, or funding from
various Goethe Institutes, and others.
Two of the ICLA students had fled from the war in Ukraine,
and one had to leave Russia in the face of the reigning
repressions there. Once more, the financial support
of the Baden-Wuerttemberg STIPENDIUM secured that
these three displaced students could be included in the
program on short notice.
The interdisciplinary curriculum of ICLA 2.0, which has
been curated by Valentina Boye, herself an alumna of
documentary directing at the Filmakademie, gives top
priority to networking and to content development. Encounters
with the academy’s regular students, and joint
project work are running through the curriculum like
a thread.
Participants have come up with ideas for films early on
in the semester and kept honing their projects throughout
the term. They have made alliances among the IC-
LA 2.0 and beyond, among the school’s regular students.
We hope that this development will help them to jointly
keep developing their ideas further. The International
Office at the Filmakademie is prepared to assist in
the process and to support co-productions between film
schools, widening the scope of stories to be told to a global
level, and widening the international dimension of
student exchange towards more global career perspectives
for all involved.
Guido Lukoschek, Head of International Office
At the Certificate Ceremony 2022
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