Compass: Film International would like to announce a 'call for ideas' for this year's Compass 
International Film Festival, to be held in November 2007, Bristol UK. The organisation was 
established in 2006 with the aim of providing greater access to under-represented areas of 
international visual culture for a wider audience and to encourage a vibrant and lively debate 
around film through exhibition and festival events.

The first Compass festival - The Compass of Horror - was launched in October in Bristol, UK. With 
the support of our Swedish counterparts, Film International, who act as the main intellectual 
resource for the Compass festivals, the event proved a great success (further information about 
the 2006 event can be found at www.compass-film.co.uk, and photographs of the festival on 
www.filmint.nu). 

The structural concept for the festival revolves around the 'compass' idea. Each year, we will 
provide a themed programme of events, using the cultural angle of the compass points to provoke 
international enquiry into varying cinematic genres. Just as 2006 focused on the genre of horror, 
presenting films and speakers from Nigeria, Canada, England and Japan as the cultural regions on 
the compass axis, we aim for 2007's festival – 'The Compass of Resistance' – to represent films 
from four regions of the world that in various ways provoke and challenge 'the establishment'. 
Compass hopes that the festival this year will offer a diverse range of international cinema that 
reacts against the status quo; whether that be political, sexual, racial, avant-garde or opposition 
to film conventions themselves.

We welcome all ideas concerning international films, filmmakers and debates that may fit within 
this theme of 'cinema against the grain'. Please send your ideas for festival contributions either 
directly to the Compass organisers Sam King and Tara Sachdeva at [log in to unmask] or to 
the team at Film International. Final programming decisions will take place in late spring.

We look forward to hearing your suggestions,
Best Wishes

The team of Compass: Film International