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The first edition of StrangerFestival is behind us. During 3-5 July StrangerFestival brought together more than 1.000 Dutch visitors, hundreds of young people from and more than hundred international media professionals and cultural operators from over 30 countries. More than 1.000 videos from 49 countries were entered into the competition.

We wish to thank all the participants, partners and funders. The results of the festival will be on the website soon. In the meantime you can watch and enjoy the winning videos and the finalists on this website.

The StrangerFestival is one of the flagship projects of the European Year of Intercultural Dialogue and supported strongly by the European Commission.

The main corporate sponsor of StrangerFestival is Boeing. MTV Netherlands is the project's preferred media partner in the Netherlands.

StrangerFestival is an initiative of the the European Cultural Foundation (ECF). We also wish to thank the Europafonds of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs (NL), the Helsingin Sanomat Foundation (FI), VandenEnde Foundation (NL), the Bundeszentrale für politische Bildung (D), Wij Amsterdammers (NL), the Fritt Ord Foundation (N), City of Amsterdam (NL), the Evens Foundation (B) and JVC.

The ECF is subsidised by BankGiroLoterij, De Lotto and De Nationale Instant Loterij through the Prins Bernhard Cultuur Fonds, which have been asked to grant subsidies and set up cultural collaboration programmes.