Since 2016, the HaFI has been organizing a yearly three-month residency program focusing on research-based practices in contemporary art, including moving image/cinema, curatorial work, and knowledge production with different partners such as the central Goethe-Institut based in Munich (2016-2020/21), IASPIS–The International Artists Studio Program in Stockholm (2021/22), the Berlin Senate’s “Ad Hoc Fellowship Program” in cooperation with Artists at Risk (2022), and the Farocki Forum in Zurich (2023).

Since 2023 the residency program is carried out with our partner Kultur Ensemble Palermo (Goethe-Institut Palermo und Institut français Palermo), joined by Arsenal Filminstitut in 2026. The residency is open to film directors and artists, as well as film curators, critics and researchers, who are based in Sicily. An open call takes place at the beginning of every year.