Forecast – Mentorships for Audacious Minds

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January 7–February 10

Forecast 10: Open Call

Apply for a chance to work with one of the six mentors of Forecast's tenth anniversary edition edition. →

March 14–15

Forecast 9: Festival

The six mentee projects of Forecast 9 will be unveiled at the Festival in Berlin, alongside showcases by the mentors and activations by LINA fellows.

OPEN CALL 2025

The Call for Ideas Is Open ↗

The work-stay: Amsterdam

Hao Zhou and Tomer Heymann at IDFA

The work-stay: Reykjavik

Johanna Seelemann and Fiona Raby at Nordic House

The Work-Stay: Istanbul

Camil Navarro and Ute Wassermann at Salt Galata

Trà Nguyễn and Theo Eshetu in Rome

THE WORK-STAY: Rome

Trà Nguyễn and Theo Eshetu in Rome, Italy

THE WORK-STAY: Ishinomaki

Mei Liu and Lieko Shiga in Japan

THE WORK-STAY: Salvador, Bahia

Mehdi Dahkan and Alice Ripoll in Bahia, Brazil

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Mentorships for Audacious Minds

The Call for Ideas Is Open! We’re delighted to

The Call for Ideas Is Open!

We’re delighted to announce the six new mentors and open call for applications for the tenth anniversary edition of Forecast Mentorships.

Artistic practitioners and cultural producers working in all creative fields, anywhere in the world, are encouraged to apply to Forecast’s international mentorship program with projects that could benefit from the expertise of one of this edition’s mentors and their unique approach to material and knowledge production. The call is open to applicants of all ages and does not prescribe a theme. The only requirement is to submit projects that are relevant to the expertise of the mentor you wish to work with.

Send us your project ideas for the chance to work with one of the following mentors: fashion designer Hussein Chalayan (Cyprus/UK), vocalist and composer Elaine Mitchener (UK), performer and theater-maker Lulu Obermayer (Germany), artist and filmmaker Ruth Patir (Israel), video and installation artist James Richards (UK), and electronic musician Sote (Iran/USA).

The mentors in Forecast Mentorships’ 2025–26 edition use modes of defamiliarization in their work, expanding the tools and mediums they work with to generate new propositions. By conceptually and technically alienizing familiar creative possibilities, they each venture into uncharted realms in their own practice.

As Forecast marks its tenth anniversary edition, for the first time an alumna of the program will serve as a mentor: theater-maker and performer Lulu Obermayer, who participated in Forecast 5.

The deadline for applications is 11:59pm CET on Monday, February 10.

Find all the information about the Open Call for Forecast Mentorships Edition 10 at the link in bio.

In November 2024, the filmmaker Hao Zhou and his m

In November 2024, the filmmaker Hao Zhou and his mentor, documentarist Tomer Heymann, met in Amsterdam for a condensed work-stay, where they finetuned Zhou's film edit and networked during the IDFA film festival.

Hailing from southwest China, filmmaker Hao Zhou explores queer and feminist stories in peripheral spaces. In his latest and most personal documentary project 'Correct Me If I’m Wrong', Zhou turns the camera to his own family as its members confront his deviation from expectations as their sole male heir. To challenge their contempt, which he recognizes as concern motivated by care, Zhou indulges his family’s wish to rid him of everything they hate and fear.

In their mountainous town, his grandmother and other family members expose him to a series of mystical interventions to transform his body, mind, spirit, and fate. As this arduous pursuit exposes tensions and traumas amid all participants, will the family end up being the ones who are transformed?

Only 3 days to go before we announce the six mento

Only 3 days to go before we announce the six mentors in Forecast Mentorships‘ tenth edition, and the call for applications will open.
Watch this space!

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