Film list

The 18-Year-Old Assembly Line 2016 30'
  Directed by Luojunnan Yin .
We happened to make friends with this group of factory workers in the "post-90s" generation while we were working on another projects. We were quite fascinated by many things that we
About Love on a Small Island 2018 26'
    Directed by Elaheh Habibi .
The film About Love on a Small Island is a participatory and reflexive ethnographic film exploring the meaning of love among a Sunni Muslim community in an Iranian village on Qeshm Island. Following
After the Silence 2018 28'
    Material Culture Directed by Natalie Cubides-Brady .
An affecting portrait of a small town on the Magdalena River in Colombia during Day of the Dead, exploring the spiritual impact of the forced disappearances that became endemic during the nation’s
All Eyez on Me! 2021 30'
    Shorts Directed by Robert Weijs .
Over a period of 15 years, the filmmaker visits the Loita Maasai in Kenya, becoming close friends with brothers Lenaai and Matinkoi. Lenaai, aware of how the outside world looks at the Maasai,
Amazonimations 2018 7'
    Shorts Directed by Camilla Morelli Sophie Marsh .
A compilation of three animated films written, voiced and illustrated by the Matses people of the Amazon rainforest, on the Peru-Brazil frontier. Made in collaboration with an indigenous artist, a
Anshan Diaries 2022 27'
    Student Directed by Xiuzhi Dong .
Director Charles Xiuzhi Dong uses real family life as its backdrop. Casting his grandpa he investigates and retraces his family saga spanning three decades of Chinese post-cultural revolution history.
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A curated programme streaming online 3-31 March 2023. Click here to buy an online festival pass. Live in Bristol 22-25 March 2023. At ICA (London), Sunday 19 March 2023, 18:15 The aim of ARANDU -
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The Art of Andrew Omoding 2016 9'
  Directed by Trevor H. J. Marchand .
Andrew Omoding is a Ugandan-British artist. Andrew enters into partnership with his materials, allowing their sensible properties to guide his exploratory gestures and fingerwork. In stitching and
As Aye, 2022 26'
    Student Directed by Sam Kenyon .
As Aye, is a fragment of correspondence with author and storyteller, Jess Smith, and with the ‘absent presence’ of Scottish Travellers in the archive and the landscape. Drawing on the memory and
BROKEN SKIN 2018 24'
    Directed by Lidija Burcak .
An emotionally charged poetic encounter between the filmmaker and other psoriasis sufferers, exploring skin as a metaphor of strength, belief, belonging and alienation.
Bearing 2021 29'
    Shorts Directed by Rosie Reed Hillman .
The everyday frustrations, heartache and joy of early motherhood are revealed through intimate, observational vignettes, offering a frank and raw account of the filmmaker’s life as a new mum over
Belle River 2022 11'
    Shorts Directed by Guillaume Fournier Samuel Matteau Yannick Nolin .
It is 2019. Spring flooding in Mississippi hits record highs. In Louisiana, the residents of Pierre-Part are preparing for the worst. Barring an unexpected turn of events, local authorities will soon
Between Jirina and Anna 2015 5'
  Directed by Tereza Stehlikova .
My grandmother Jirina explains the history of a traditional costume that her own mother made. As Jirina's great granddaughter Anna tries the dress on, assisted by her own mother and grandmother, the
Beyond Life - Cooling and Cleansing, in Kilimanjaro, Tanzania 2018 25'
    Directed by Frode Storaas Knut Chr. Myhre Myhre .
On the rural slopes of Mount Kilimanjaro, a young man takes his own life, leaving a wife and small children behind. On the third day after his burial, a ceremony is conducted to cool and cleanse the
Bill Reid Remembers 2021 24'
    Lifetime Achievement Award - Alanis Obomsawin Directed by Alanis Obomsawin .
Bill Reid Remembers is a beautiful tribute from Alanis Obomsawin to her friend’s remarkable life and rich legacy. Despite spending his early life away from his nation’s culture, renowned Haida
Bonfires 2017 6'
    Shorts Directed by Martin Bureau .
Huge bonfires are lit by Protestants in Northern Ireland on July 12 each year, as part of the celebrations of the 1690 Battle of the Boyne. They are made from wooden pallets, tires, and garbage. To
Bridging the Gap 2021 7'
    Animation Directed by Nina Ross Meg Barrett .
Aged 18, Meg started hearing a voice. She tried ignoring it, didn’t tell a soul, yet the voice grew. More abusive, more delusional and often completely out of her control. Eventually, her paranoia
Cara Romero: Following the Light 2022 27'
    Shorts Directed by Kaela Waldstein .
An enrolled citizen of the Chemehuevi Indian Tribe, Romero was raised between contrasting settings: the rural Chemehuevi reservation in Mojave Desert, CA and the urban sprawl of Houston, TX.
Chosen People 2016 18'
  Directed by Qihui Wu .
Responding to systematic racism and historical erasure, the African diapora has developed a multitude of tactics for mitigating oppressive ideological conditions. Among them, the Hebrew Israelite
Christmas at Moose Factory 1971 13'
    Lifetime Achievement Award - Alanis Obomsawin Directed by Alanis Obomsawin .
This lyrical short documentary marked the directorial debut of legendary Abenaki director Alanis Obomsawin. Filmed at a residential school in northern Ontario, it is composed entirely of drawings by
The Chronotopes of Palestine 2015 38'
  Directed by Dominika Blachnicka-Ciacek .
The Chronotopes of Palestine (38’) is a collection of five ethnographic short films, which explore different modes of remembering the homeland among three generations of exiled Polish and British
A Cobra 2016 19'
  Directed by Carlos Sautchuk .
What we call Amazonia is actually a diversity of environments, artifacts, actions and actors. These elements are in a constant relation of genesis, producing each other in particular places and
Concrete Sea 2021 15'
    Shorts Directed by Julia Naidin .
As an exercise of resistance, Sônia follows the process of destruction caused by the sea, which day by day, advances into the beach and approaches her home. She makes daily records of this process
Cornershop Beats 2022 8'
    Shorts Directed by Bassam Al-Khaled Abdel Malek Al Ali Saja Awad .
In a family run grocery shop in Saida, Lebanon a father and son try to make their dreams come true.
Cruces 2020 23'
    Student Directed by Carlos Tobon Franco .
An immersive expedition throughout the geographies and stories composing the Latin American journey to reach US soil. By weaving together oral histories and the landscape, the film is structured to
Cycles 2022 9'
    Shorts Directed by Nisreen Hazineh Anas Al Sheikh Shawki Al Hallak .
We have fallen and are trying to stand. We keep on going… The world keeps spinning and we spin along with it in search for our daily bread in the current economic situation. We have become like the
Desterro Guarani 2011 38'
    Arandu - Listen to the Weather Directed by Vincent Carelli Ernesto de Carvalho Patrícia Ferreira Ariel Duarte Ortega .
The Mbya-Guarani’s history of contact and expulsion from the land. As Ariel Ortega thinks about the history of contact of the Myba-Guarani, he tries to understand how his people got expelled from
The Devil and the Holy Water 2016 12'
  Directed by Diego Maria Malara .
For centuries, exorcism has been a daily practice in the Ethiopian Orthodox Church. But as Ethiopia has undergone extensive social change, exorcism has been revolutionized. New problems produce new
Disability Futures 2023 '
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Don’t miss the plenary session with Anneleis Kusters and Erin Moriarty: Birth of a genre: Re-framing language in deaf ethnographic film
Duende 2022 27'
    Student Directed by Lucia Barrenetxea Lopez .
Duende takes us through one of the most awaited festivals in Granada, Spain: Easter week. Duende is an intimate, unexpected tale of an encounter with the afterlife, a series of miracles that can only
Entretejido 2015 33'
  Directed by Patricia Alvarez .
Peruvian alpaca wool is a material of significance among Andean highland communities and their rich textile traditions. Within global fashion worlds, it is considered a luxurious material,
Eoha 2015 22'
    Intangible Culture Directed by Vladimir Perovic .
In a timeless rocky mountain landscape evoking the time of Creation, a shepherd communicates with his goats and sheep. Twenty or so different cries, screams, chirps, babbles, mumbles, whispers,
The Eye Begins in The Hand 2022 16'
    Shorts Directed by Yehuda Sharim .
El Ojo Comienza En La Mano is a tribute to campesino histories in rural California through the artwork of an artist largely absent from critical conversations on Chicanx art, Ruben A. Sanchez, as
A Family Portrait 2022 5'
    Student Directed by Shubham Sharma .
“After finding a family portrait on my phone one evening in Germany, I felt a longing for my hometown. I wanted to make a film about it. But how can you talk about your family portrait without
The Family and the Animals 2015 15'
  Directed by Jacob Hesmondhalgh Marie-Josephine Hobson .
Sunrise to set. An ethnographic film, using no subtitles or narration to depict and illustrate the co-existence of a rural Zimbabwean family and their animals.
Father's Prescription 2017 11'
    Shorts Directed by Enke Huang .
A personal exploration of traditional Chinese medicine that considers the importance of its sensory qualities. Huang vividly recalls the extreme bitter taste and smell of the teas consumed by her
The Feel of History 2017 29'
    Directed by Lise Zurné .
Each year, on the 1st of March, a historical society called the Komunitas Djokjakarta 1945 re-enacts one of the last battles with the Dutch colonizers of 1949 in Yogyakarta, Indonesia. Following
Fire Mouth 2017 9'
    Shorts Directed by Luciano Pérez Fernández .
A film about a football match in Pernambuco, Northeastern Brazil, in which we see none of the action, or even a single player. We only catch glimpses of the fans as they bake, rather sluggishly,
The Five Breakfasts of Mr Podgoretsky 2016 21'
  Directed by Carl Rowlinson .
In the shadow of Brexit an expat is deported from a country that he has made his home over the last 50 years. This documentary asks what it means to make a country a home.
Floating Raft 2018 29'
    Directed by Zhang Chong .
Floating Raft takes an observational look at the life of a vibrant Chinese Buddhist monk Shi Yanyi and his Buddhist brothers, in Los Angeles. The Shaolin Temple is famous for its 1500-year Buddhist
The Forgotten Generation 2015 40'
  Directed by Deepa Dhanraj .
In the Forgotten Generation older people aged over 60 in urban Tamil Nadu, rural Rajasthan and tribal Maharashtra reveal the realities of their lives, relationships and work as well as their
Forms of Care 2022 7'
    Animation Directed by Charlotte Kühlbrandt Maayan L. Matz .
A stop-motion animation following the story of a mundane death, and the forms of care that accompany it. The script is taken verbatim from an interview conducted as part of an ethnographic research
From Ikpeng children to the world 2001 35'
    Arandu - Listen to the Weather Directed by Kumaré Ikpeng Karané Ikpeng Natuyu Yuwipo Txicão .
A video letter from four Ikpeng children introducing their village, in response to the children of the Sierra Maestra in Cuba. With grace and lightness they show their families, their games, their
The Future of Work? 2022 21'
    Student Directed by Yihao Yan .
Digital nomads are a highly mobile group of people who travel while working. Digital nomadism is considered a utopian life and a liberation from sedentary society, but it can also become a privilege.
Gambote 2022 24'
    Shorts Directed by Sofia Bensadon .
The clay mountains of the Chuquiago Valley are transformed into brick every day on the outskirts of La Paz City, Bolivia. Irineo and Rosa grind the clay, mould, dry, and burn the bricks every day, in
Got High With Only One Day Singing 2015 33'
  Directed by Meng Ziwei .
Huaer sing the oldest and most renowned folk songs in Gansu Province, China.
The Granary of Salcete 2017 37'
    Directed by Vince Costa .
Curtorim is located on the banks of the river Zuari, in Goa, India. The people of this village have over centuries built a bond with rice, so profoundly that it earned the village the title of
Guardians of the Night 2018 17'
    Shorts Directed by Alexandrine Boudreault-Fournier Eleonora Diamanti .
A survey of the happenings in Guantánamo, Cuba during nighttime. We see neighbourhood watchmen on lonely streets, bustling crowds of revellers in illuminated squares, families as they relax at home
Gyalmu's House 2016 18'
    RAI Basil Wright Directed by Asmita Shrish Gavin Carver .
In 2015 an earthquake shook the mountains of the Langtang Valley, Nepal, causing landslides and avalanches taking hundreds of lives from the small community. A year later Nima Gyalmu, a woman of
Honour to Senator Murray Sinclair 2021 29'
    Lifetime Achievement Award - Alanis Obomsawin Directed by Alanis Obomsawin .
As the Chair of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission, Senator Murray Sinclair was a key figure in raising global awareness of the atrocities of Canada’s residential school system. With
I (heart) Jack Lalanne: A Cartoon Memoir 2022 14'
    Animation Directed by LeAnn Erickson .
The filmmaker, a lesbian, feminist baby boomer, shares her coming out story with the help of exercise guru Jack LaLanne. Combining animation with the written memoir, I (heart) Jack LaLanne pushes the
I Am the World 2022 9'
    Shorts Directed by Che Applewhaite .
A speculative documentary that explores how an archive of networked moving images, featuring famed ballroom hosts Selvin “MC Debra” Mizrahi and Kelly Gorgeous Gucci, enables worldly ways of seeing.
I am Sheriff 2017 28'
    Directed by Teboho Edkins .
“I am Sheriff” follows a young man as he travels the mountain kingdom of Lesotho showing his film in remote villages, schools and communities. Sheriff was born with a girl’s body, but as the
I've already become an image 2008 32'
    Arandu - Listen to the Weather Directed by Zezinho Yube .
A group of Hunikui men tell of the five ages that mark their most recent past: from ‘the time of the Indian lodge’, to first contact with the Nawá, the non-Indian people who came looking for
In the Devil's Garden 2018 25'
    Directed by Pavel Borecký .
The film situates the viewer within the makeshift space of an animal market in Algeria. Drifting between feeding and waiting, one attunes to the bodies of goats and camels, the oldest companions of
The Intelligent Hand 2015 21'
  Directed by Trevor H. J. Marchand .
The Intelligent Hand introduces us to a first-year cohort of British fine woodwork trainees at the Building Crafts College in Stratford, East London. Through the narratives of the course tutor and
The Intersection 2021 30'
    Shorts Directed by Daniel Quintanilla Jessamine Irwin .
Cecile reconnects with the French of her childhood, thanks to recently-arrived Franco-African immigrants, like Trésor, seeking asylum in Cecile’s hometown of Lewiston, Maine. Cecile’s Franco
Janitzio its fishing, its pinatas 2015 31'
  Directed by Jose Figueroa Paola Rodriguez David Figueroa Omar Foglio .
Since the 80s around 250 Purepecha families settled in Rosarito, Baja California, Mexico. They traveled more than 2,500 miles from Janitzio island, where they were fishermen and weavers of nets,
The Jiama Paper of Bai With My Heart 2016 21'
  Directed by He Zi Jian Li .
Traditional Jiama imprinted paper production in the Bai cultural region, southwest China, presented through the experiences of one particular family.
King On, Brasil! 2018 15'
    Special Interest Directed by Luiza Folegatti .
King On, Brasil! is a short documentary featuring six Brazilian Drag Kings and their use of social media to share their work, knowledge and performances which in turn strengthen their community. The
Kisêdjê Manifesto 2012 11'
    Arandu - Listen to the Weather Directed by Kamikia P.T. Kisedje .
Kisêdjê women’s manifesto against deforestation and river pollution. Filmmaker Kamikia Kisêdjê and the Kisêdjê Cinema Collective decided to send a message from their people to the United
Kokota: The Islet of Hope 2015 29'
  Directed by Craig Norris .
Mbarouk Mussa Omar is from an East African Island called Pemba. Nearly ten years ago he visited a tiny neighbouring islet called Kokota and was shocked by what he saw. Kokota was teetering towards
La Tumba Mambi 2022 28'
    Ethnomusicology Directed by Alexandrine Boudreault-Fournier DJ Jigüe .
As a result of the Haitian Revolution (1791-1804), many French settlers travelled to Eastern Cuba with their slaves to escape the revolt. The Tumba Francesa Societies, known as a brotherhood and a
Last Round of Jaldi Five 2017 26'
  Directed by Ellen Lapper .
2017 marked seventy years since the decolonisation and Partition of India, sparking one of the largest mass migrations in history. One particular community uprooted by this event were the
Legacies 2018 34'
    Student Directed by Clair Maleney .
The pioneering approach of Jubilee School in West Philadelphia seeks to empower its students (mainly black, and from low-income households), via a curriculum which highlights the arts, social
Let Him Fly 2021 29'
    Ethnomusicology Directed by Ethiraj Gabriel Dattatreyan .
Let Him Fly draws on footage shot over eight years to lyrically document the rise and exponential growth of the Delhi hip hop scene. The film spotlights some of the most influential artists on the
Limpiadores 2015 39'
  Directed by Fernando Mitjáns .
Migrating is seldom an easy solution. It is rather a journey that begins with a journey. After more than eight years of campaigning, the immigrant cleaners outsourced at the School of Oriental and
The Lindisfarne Causeway 2022 20'
    Student Directed by Sammy-Lena Stasse .
The Lindisfarne Causeway is a road that disappears into the sea twice a day. The filmmaker uses boredom and daydreaming as a method to get to know this place. A poetic world of tarmac silence,
Living Here 2017 16'
    Shorts Directed by Sarah Baril Gaudet .
In Aupaluk, Northern Quebec, a small cluster of primary coloured buildings cluster amidst the blinding white tundra. We are introduced to the tiny town (population 200, mainly Inuit) by a thoughtful
Maboan - notes on the construction of a dam 2015 25'
  Directed by Ana Luísa Luz Joana Sousa Zaino Zauad Ansomane Dabo Braima Indjai .
The colonial military offensive and consequent population exile during the Independence Struggle in Guinea-Bissau (1963-1974) led to the destruction of many mangrove rice fields. In every corner of
Making It as Embroiderers 2022 10'
    Student Directed by Rachel Schaetzel Barber .
In the Tsotsil and Tseltal communities in Chiapas, Mexico, weaving and embroidering has traditionally been women’s work, practised in the home and made to be used by the family. As global demand
Making a Living in the Dry Season 2016 35'
  Directed by Ines Ponte .
Set in the highlands village of Katuwo, the film is an intimate portrait of the day-to-day life of a family living in an agro-pastoralist farm in Namibe, Angola. Through my request to my host
Migrants of ther Dunes 2017 28'
    Directed by Erica Pomerance .
The dramatic sanding-over of arable land caused by climate change now threatens the very survival of many ancestral Dogon communities along the magestic Bandiagara Cliffs in Mali. The Dogon people
A Miscellany of Families 2015 36'
  Directed by Eluned Zoe Aiano .
This multi-layered documentary explores the way we navigate the stories that are presented to us during childhood and how we choose to pass them on through ideological influences and shifting values.
Mobail Goroka 2018 17'
    Shorts Directed by Jackie Kauli .
Glossy advertisements for telecommunications company Digicel abound in Goroka, a town in Papua New Guinea’s eastern highlands. This film takes a close look at the footsoldiers of this multinational
Mount Currie Summer Camp 1975 5'
    Lifetime Achievement Award - Alanis Obomsawin Directed by Alanis Obomsawin .
In a series of playful portraits, Stl’atl’imx (Líl̓wat) children and young people go about their daily duties at the community’s summer camp outside Mount Currie, B.C. Infused with a sense of
NEW RISE, OLD EBB 2018 28'
    Directed by Carlo Cubero Enrico Barone Kristiina Pilvet .
In 2016 from May to September, on the island of Piirissaare, a series of fires destroyed several houses and the prayer house, causing insecurities and disagreements in the community.
NHENHA 2018 26'
    Student Directed by Andre Bahule Karen Boswall .
“We work the land and we dance. That’s what we know how to do” explains Maria in this portrait of the lives of three generations of women in southern Mozambique. The dance they dance is the
Negotiating Amnesia 2015 30'
  Directed by Alessandra Ferrini .
Negotiating Amnesia takes as its starting point two collections of photographs found within the Alinari's photographic Archive in Florence (Italy): a series of black and white images of the Ethiopian
Never Hold Your Breath 2016 34'
  Directed by Gil Orr Urtreger .
Utila is a tiny island in the Western Caribbean, part of the Republic of Honduras. It is a mixed community established in the 1800s by Caymans, outlaws and former slaves. We arrive as travelers and
Niishii | Night Worlds 2017 22'
    Student Directed by Saranya Nayak .
What happens to a town after sunset? What happens to life and light? Niishii is an evocative tour through the night time hours in the town of Dubrajpur (West Bengal, India). Here, amidst inky
Nobody Dies Here 2016 23'
  Directed by Simon Panay .
Perma gold mine, Benin. Some dream to find something, others realized there was nothing to be found. Some dig relentlessly hoping to become rich, others died in the process. And a few of them say that here, nobody dies.
Nyumba Nthobu 2016 15'
  Directed by Nick Lunch .
This film was made by a group of women from the Mara region, North Tanzania, who practise an old tradition called Nyumba Nthobu, by which childless (or lonely) women known as ‘Mamas’ can legally
OTHER FIRE 2017 21'
    Directed by Guilherme Moura Fagundes .
A sensorial record of affinity and enmity relationships with fire in the conservation of the Cerrado biome. In the company is locals, hired to act as brigadiers and, more recently, as management
Our spirits keep coming 2021 15'
    Shorts Directed by Ariel Ortega Bruno Huyer .
In Tekoa Ko’ẽju, Pará Yxapy, a Mbya Guarani indigenous woman is dedicated to the first moments of care towards her child, who lies in her womb, and, along with her relatives, ponders about the
Out Swing 2021 26'
    Shorts Directed by Samar Minallah Khan .
On the outskirts of Islamabad, a committed coach teaches a team of unlikely players, their families, and a community, how playing cricket can change lives.
Parizad 2021 24'
    Shorts Directed by Mehdi Imani Shahmiri .
Keshvar is a lonely, old woman crafting an ancient, unknown woven textile, telling a strange story of a fairy and a shepherd who came to their village one day.
Positive Women: Heartache, Hope & Living with HIV 2017 30'
    Directed by Rebecca Devaraj .
In 2016, filmmaker Bex Devaraj and anthropologist Anne Lotter were given unique access to one of the biggest slums in Kampala, Uganda, where every day is a struggle for survival. In this intimate
Positive Youtubers – A Machinima Documentary 2017 15'
    Special Interest Directed by Leandro Goddinho .
An experimental documentary made with footage material recorded from the computer desktop screen, about four Brazilians who have created Youtube Channels to talk openly about their HIV status. They
Poundmaker’s Lodge 1987 29'
    Lifetime Achievement Award - Alanis Obomsawin Directed by Alanis Obomsawin .
Just north of the City of Edmonton lies Poundmaker’s Lodge, an addiction and mental-health facility specialising in treatment for Indigenous people. Founded in 1973 and still operational today, the
President's Award - Trinh T. Minh-ha 2023 '
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She will receive the award in person on Thursday 23 March, at the screening of What About China? at Arnolfini (Bristol). On that occasion Trinh T. Minh-ha will be in conversation with May Adadol Ingawanij.
Promenade 2016 31'
    RAI Basil Wright Directed by Philip Cartelli .
Recorded during two years but organized around a single day, “Promenade” observes a series of movements and interactions on a renovated section of the Marseille waterfront. During the day a cast
Pulse 2015 26'
    Student Directed by Robin Petré .
This poetic, highly sensorial film takes place on one of Europe’s largest deer farms, which is home to 1,500 red deer and their caretakers. The animals are essentially still wild. They were first
A Radio of One’s Own 2016 34'
  Directed by Shweta Radhakrishnan .
In the heart of the hills, in Rudraprayag, Uttarakhand, a frequency crackled and came to life on the 21st of September, 2013. Community radio, Mandakini ki Aawaz is Rudraprayag District’s first and
The Realm of Forgotten Existence 2015 28'
  Directed by Piotr Piasta .
While the images in the film reveal a landscape that often seems unchanged, the narrative reveals fragments of forgotten stories and traditions, skills and working lives no longer of value in
River Nomads 2016 40'
    RAI Basil Wright Directed by Eric Komlavi Hahonou .
http://www.rivernomads.dk/river-nomads-english/ password: ddc River Nomads addresses the complex relationship between migration, mobility and citizenship. This first part of a forthcoming trilogy
Sakhisona 2017 27'
    Intangible Culture Directed by Prantik Basu .
Near Mogulmari in West Bengal lies a mound known locally as Sakhisona. Stories about it are interwoven with myth and still sung by local musicians. A dig nearby recently uncovered the remains of a
Singing "Bird": Carrying on the Kumeyaay Tradition 2018 30'
    Directed by Teri Brewer .
The Kumeyaay, an indigenous people of Southern California and Northern Mexico still perform more than a dozen ancient song cycles kept alive through a process of apprenticeship and study which can
So'o: Life and death of a cow in Puerto Casado 2016 24'
  Directed by Valentina Bonifacio .
In the golden age of Puerto Casado, in Paraguay, at least eight cows were slaughtered every day to feed its population of 6,000 people. Eating "asado" (roasted meat) is still at the core of
Specialised Technique 2018 6'
    Directed by Onyeka Igwe .
William Sellers and the Colonial Film Unit developed a framework for colonial cinema, this included slow edits, no camera tricks and minimal camera movement. Hundreds of films were created in
The Storehouses of the World 2018 27'
    Directed by Timothy Cooper Abeera Arif-Bashir .
In the Pakistani city of Lahore an audiocassette recorded decades ago deep among the crowd at a ritual mourning procession continues to circulate in the neighbourhood in which it was first made.
Sunday 2018 25'
    Special Interest Directed by Paulo Mendel Vitor Grunvald .
A colourful and noisy encounter with Família Stronger, a LGBTQIA+ collective in the neighbourhood of Jardim Nazaré, on São Paulo’s periphery. Across a split screen, Sunday portrays a single day
Ten by Ten 2021 29'
    Student Directed by Jami L. Bennett .
There is no denying the evocative power of food to remind us of who we are and where we come from. After living in Asia for over fifteen years, Jessica was longing for the burgers and barbecue of her
These Objects, Those Memories 2015 29'
  Directed by Roger Horn .
"These Objects, Those Memories" is a split-screen film focused on material culture, specifically, that of three long-term Zimbabwean female migrants currently residing in Cape Town, South
Time to Look at Girls: Migrants in Bangladesh and Ethiopia 2015 31'
  Directed by Marco Speroni .
More migrants move within their own country or region than migrate to Northern countries. Bangladesh and Ethiopia have been experiencing increasingly high rates of migration of adolescent girls to
To Work is to Grow 2015 32'
  Directed by Léa Klaue .
Gerald, Ruben, Neysa and their friends are children and adolescents who work as wheelbarrow pusher at a market and as prayer boys in a cemetery in the region of Cochabamba in Bolivia. With their own
Toang 2022 37'
    Student Directed by Rizky Maulana .
Toang is an intimate portrait of a rice paddy farmer and his family in Indramayu (Indonesia), who were in a precarious situation due to the cycle of indebtment and environmental degradation that the
Tobacco memories 2020 30'
    Student Directed by Manca Filak .
The villages in southwest Bulgaria have long been known for the cultivation and production of tobacco. Muslim Pomaks, still engaged in this work, are facing a decline due to the low purchase price of
Tracing Roots: A Weaver's Journey 2015 26'
    Material Culture Directed by Ellen Frankenstein .
This film follows master Haida weaver Delores Churchill on a journey to replicate the spruce root hat found with Kwäday Dän Ts’ìnchi, also known as the Long Ago Person Found. The remains of the
The Train Driver 2021 6'
    Animation Directed by Christian Wittmoser Zuniel Kim .
Trigger warning: suicide and related trauma In the five-minute animated documentary film The Train Driver, an anonymous train driver recounts his experience with suicide on the rails. Six times he
True Body 2016 5'
  Directed by Louise Hollerup Christensen Shannon Turner Maja Rosenlund Byriel .
What do you do to your body hair, and what does your body hair do to you? True Body is a performative documentary that draws the viewer into a debate about gender norms and cultural body practices.
Undercover in Underwear 2016 19'
    Student Directed by Diane Agatha .
The Internet provides an infinite place of freedom where self, mind and body are dislocated. We are able to reinvent and present ourselves the way we want. It is in this world that Circle, my alter
Unearthed 2021 16'
    Shorts Directed by Colin Rosemont .
The film examines the intersections of history, spirituality, colonialism, and contemporary archaeology through the experiences of archaeologists and Native Californians brought together by an excavation.
A Village with a View 2022 20'
    Shorts Directed by Joseph Inman .
In wartime Britain, a Lord permitted unused land on Cornwall’s Rame Peninsula to be built on. Tiny chalets appeared, each as individual as its owner, and the community of Freathy came to life. In
Violão-Canção: Brazilian Soul 2016 30'
  Directed by Chico Saraiva Rose Satiko Hikiji .
Following his artistic path, Chico Saraiva meets up with 7 master musicians who share their experiences: João Bosco, Sérgio Assad, Paulo César Pinheiro, Paulo Bellinati, Marco Pereira, Luiz Tatit
Walker's 2018 11'
    Student Directed by Kyle Myers-Haugh .
In this portrait of a historic black barbershop in Wilmington, North Carolina, we witness the everyday rituals that bind the men in this community together. Tight close ups illuminate intimate
Walking is Medicine 2018 5'
    Lifetime Achievement Award - Alanis Obomsawin Directed by Alanis Obomsawin .
This is the story of the Nishiyuu walkers, six young Cree men who decided to trek 1600km from Whapmagoostui, Quebec, to Ottawa, in the spirit of their ancestors, whose traditions were to travel long
Warehouse 2018 8'
    Directed by Lillian Dam Bracia S. Buse Yildirim Constantinos Diamantis Malwa Grabowska .
Warehouse is a meditative ethnographic short film. Warehouse is a place where sound moves the objects. It is an intimate encounter in the cosmos of objects, sounds and textures where carpenter
The Water Holds Me / The Water Binds Us 2021 2'
    Animation Directed by Lily Mae Kroes .
Based on the stories of women who dip, dive and swim in rivers, lakes and seas, this animated film evokes many different experiences in one swim, from the anticipation of getting in cold water to the
We Belong to the Earth 2015 30'
  Directed by Ramona August .
The establishment of the first intentional communities stretches back over two millennia ago, with notable examples such as the ancient Greek commune based on vegetarianism and equality of the sexes
A Wedding 2021 15'
    Shorts Directed by Emiko Stock .
At a Cham Muslim wedding in rural Cambodia, an ethnographer doubles as a wedding videographer, capturing a day-long event in constant movement. Through unstable camera movements never completely
What your eyes can’t see 2018 8'
    Shorts Directed by Julieta Pestarino .
An essay-documentary that explores the processes of archival research, and the limits of the kind of knowledge it can provide. Pestarino pursues photographer and traveller André Roosevelt into the
When the Sea Sends Forth a Forest 2020 21'
    Shorts Directed by Guangli LIU .
The story revolves around the memory of a Chinese survivor of the Khmer Rouge. This tragedy, which took the lives of two million people, continues to reshape our present. This forgotten moment of
Women in Sink 2015 36'
  Directed by Iris Zaki .
At “Fifi’s”, a hair salon owned by a Christian Arab in Haifa, Iris Zaki installs a minimalist film set over the sink, where she converses with the clients she’s shampooing. She thus paints an
Yarang Mamin 2019 21'
    Arandu - Listen to the Weather Directed by Kamatxi Ikpeng .
Indigenous filmmaker Kamatxi Ikpeng documents the story of a group of Ikpeng women who formed a movement to collect forest seeds and restore the banks of the Xingu River. The Yarang Women’s
You can't show my face 2021 20'
    Shorts Directed by Knutte Wester .
The sound of the streets of Tehran are transformed into forbidden beats, people sing and young women and men rhyme their inner feelings. They tell us about a society that rejects them, streets
Yours Truly 2018 15'
    Directed by Maddi Barber Charlotte Hoskins Christopher Murray .
Yours Truly follows the trail of taxidermic pieces collected by The Manchester Museum during the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Archival letters between the museums directors, explorers, and
Zahida 2018 28'
    Special Interest Directed by Seemab Gul .
Zahida is a unique woman in Pakistan: she is the nation's only female taxi driver. This sensitive film provides fascinating insight into the personal and professional trials faced by this strong
on-sea 2016 20'
    Student Directed by Hatty Bell .
on-sea is a portrait film about the small community that lives on the Bush Estate at Eccles-on-sea, Norfolk. It is a film about landscape, and how people interact with it through day-to-day minutiae
A very Dai Girl 2018 27'
    Student Directed by MengHua Zhang .
This film quietly observes her daily life of Xiao Yue, a bright 22-year-old young woman from Yunnan province in the South of China. We see Xiao Yue cook, care for her grandmother, sew, and farm - but
The world is round so that nobody can hide in the corners – Part I: Refuge 2017 10'
    Student Directed by Leandro Goddinho .
The first instalment in a series of shorts that explore LGBTQ+ experiences across the globe, envisioning a queer diasporic community. In Refuge, we hear the moving account of a young man forced to
The world is round so that nobody can hide in the corners – Part II: The Kiss 2017 5'
    Student Directed by Leandro Goddinho .
The second instalment in a series of shorts that explore LGBTQ+ experiences across the globe, envisioning a queer diasporic community. The Kiss stages an act of public sensuality at the Gay Holocaust