In 2012, ARTE dedicates one whole day to the variety of Black and White

"A Day in Black and White" will show how colourful "Black and white" can be.

ARTE wishes to demonstrate the multiplicity of black and white in a wide range of films. For "Black and white" is more than meretechnology. It is style and aesthetics. "Black and white"shapes our ideas of the past, the authentic and what has been documented. "Black and white" represents the opposites of light and dark, good and evil, poor and rich, and black and white. Sometimes we also see it as the dissolution of these opposites.

To mark the special theme day "Black and White is Colourful", the ARTE TV magazine Court-circuit/KurzSchluss presents a short film competition.

Students from any European film school, film faculty, art or design academy are invited to take part in the competition.

The submission must be formally black and white. Other than this, all content and genre-specific approaches are welcome in all their diversity. The films should be "speechless", in other words, abstain from spoken text and use only music and sound effects.

The submissions should be no longer than 10 minutes and must have been produced after 01/01/2009. The submitted films must not yet have been broadcast on TV in Germany or France.

You can still submit your films until 31/03/2012. To do so, upload your film on your ARTE Creative account and then on the "Short.Black.White.Film" Channel. For technical details regarding the upload please confer to the Submission Guidelines.

>> Read the Submission Guidelines