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Archaeology
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Material Culture
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Nomads and Nomadism
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Reflexivity
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Directors
Abatemarco, Gina
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Abraham, Shirley
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Agatha, Diane
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Bakar Sidibé, Abou
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Bell, Hatty
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Bell, Otto
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Biella, Peter
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Bona, Stefania
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Brossmann, Jakob
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Cao, Umberto
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Cooper, Timothy
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Dandriyal, Nirmal Chander
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Domenig, Aya
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Doren, Oinam
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Esteva, Jordi
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Feld, Steven
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Fernández Mouján, Alejandro
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Fossgard-Moser, Titus
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Frankenstein, Ellen
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Golovnev, Ivan
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Grieco, Anthony
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Grégoire, Charlotte
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Horat, Thomas
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Huguet, Benjamin
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Kamerling, Leonard
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Ke, Guo
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Kuentz, Gaspard
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Lloyd, Ravi Hart
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Lu, Wanwan
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Madheshiya, Amit
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Mai, Nick
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Mills-Affif, Edouard
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Mitman, Gregg
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Mura, Andrea
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Niglas, Liivo
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Perovic, Vladimir
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Petré, Robin
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Scalisi, Francesca
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Schillaci, Rossella
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Schiltz, Anne
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Siebert, Moritz
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Siegel, Sarita
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Smith, Sophia Hersi
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Sonderegger, Ramona
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Tender, Priit
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Tolange, Deepak
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Varejão, Cláudia
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Visser, Mara Lin
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Waage, Trond
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Wagner, Estephan
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Wildenauer, Nora
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Ama-san
2016
113
'
RAI Basil Wright
Directed by
Cláudia Varejão
.
A dive, the noon sunlight cuts through the water. The air in both lungs will have to be enough to rip the abalone from the rocks at the bottom of the Pacific Ocean. With no aid from air tanks or any
The Archipelago
2015
41
'
RAI Basil Wright
Directed by
Benjamin Huguet
.
The Faroe Islands: a remote group of islands, battered by the ever-changing weather patterns of the North Atlantic. For centuries, the Faroese have lived proudly off the natural resources that
Bath People
2015
60
'
Special Interest
Directed by
Stefania Bona
Francesca Scalisi
.
A small red-brick building carrying a big neon sign: "bagni". This is the last public baths in a city where everybody can take a shower in their own home. It is a microcosm of people's
The Bride of the Nile
2015
63
'
RAI Basil Wright
Directed by
Edouard Mills-Affif
.
A secluded village in the Nile Delta, a traditional Egyptian family. A drama of tragic proportions is being played out. Like millions of young girls throughout the world, Heba must marry a man that
Changa Revisited
2016
60
'
RAI Basil Wright
Directed by
Peter Biella
Leonard Kamerling
.
This is the story of Tanzania Maasai elder Toreto ole Koisenge and his passage through three decades of cultural and economic change. Seen from two points across a thirty year divide, the film uses
The Cinema Travellers
2016
96
'
RAI Basil Wright
Directed by
Shirley Abraham
Amit Madheshiya
.
An affectionate but melancholy ode to a vanishing phenomenon in rural India: the travelling cinema. The huge projector has been repaired countless times by its ingenious operator. The tent and screen
Damiana Kryygi
2015
94
'
RAI Basil Wright
Directed by
Alejandro Fernández Mouján
.
The year is 1896. In the Paraguayan forest, a three-year-old Aché girl survives the massacre of her family by white settlers. She is baptised 'Damiana' by her captors. At the age of 14, she is
The Day the Sun Fell
2015
78
'
Special Interest
Directed by
Aya Domenig
.
Swiss-Japanese filmmaker Aya Domenig, the granddaughter of a doctor on duty for the Red Cross during the 1945 atomic bombing of Hiroshima, approaches the experience of her deceased grandfather by
South-East Asia
History
Memory
Health / Health care / Healing
War / Conflict / Reconciliation
Dust
2016
44
'
Material Culture
Directed by
Deepak Tolange
.
Every winter, thousands of Nepalis and Indians migrate to various parts of Nepal to work in brick factories. Many of these labourers are children who drop out of school, engage in hard labour and
The Eagle Huntress
2016
87
'
Special Interest
Directed by
Otto Bell
.
Aishol-pan, a 13-year-old girl, trains to become the first female in 12 generations of her Kazakh family to become an eagle hunter and rises to the pinnacle of a tradition that has been handed down
Employment Office
2015
74
'
RAI Basil Wright
Directed by
Anne Schiltz
Charlotte Grégoire
.
An office interior, a row of desks, people facing each other. This is where unemployed people come to meet with their advisers. What is at stake are their benefit payments. Here everyone has to abide
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,
Extended Family
2016
31
'
Student
Directed by
Ramona Sonderegger
.
This films offers an intimate insight into the lives of two same-sex families who found a way to create themselves within a legal grey area in Switzerland. Swiss law bans adoption and access to
Western Europe
LGBTQI*
Family / Kinship
Sex / Sexuality
Law and Legislation / Bureaucracy
The Face Behind the Mask
2015
54
'
Intangible Culture
Directed by
Nirmal Chander Dandriyal
.
Weaving between past and present, performances and daily routine, this film focuses on the life and struggle of Shashadhar Acharya, a member of the fifth generation of a family of traditional Chhau
Fighting for Nothing to Happen
2015
48
'
Student
Directed by
Nora Wildenauer
.
After the volcanic eruption of Mount Rokatenda, the people of the island of Pulau Palue in east Indonesia are to be relocated. But are the planned relocation and the "new" life at the
South-East Asia
Law and Legislation / Bureaucracy
Refugees / Displaced populations
Development projects
Disasters
Ghetto PSA
2016
15
'
Special Interest
Directed by
Rossella Schillaci
.
Jacob arrived in Italy alone from French Guinea when he was 11 years old. Today he is 27, and hip hop music is his whole world: it is his way to express dreams, hopes and frustrations, and to not
Western Europe
Music / Ethnomusicology
Migration
Education / Knowledge Transmission
Ignacio's Legacy
2016
52
'
Special Interest
Directed by
Titus Fossgard-Moser
.
Between 1960 and 1992, the acclaimed documentary filmmaker Brian Moser made four films concerning indigenous peoples of northwest Amazonia: "Piraparana" (1960), "War of the Gods"
South America
Film / Photography / Mass media
Social Change
Reflexivity
Indigenous peoples / First Nations peoples
J. C. Abbey, Ghana's Puppeteer
2016
55
'
Intangible Culture
Directed by
Steven Feld
.
This film presents an exceptional fifty-year artistic career, from Accra’s streets to Ghana’s villages to international TV. In fifteen delightful puppet shows, Mr. Abbey chronicles Ghana's music
Journey to the Maggot Feeder
2015
68
'
RAI Basil Wright
Directed by
Liivo Niglas
Priit Tender
.
This film tries to solve the mystery of a bizarre Arctic fairy tale. Priit Tender, an Estonian animator, makes a film about an old Chukchi legend – The Maggot Feeder. The unconventional narrative
The King of the Cockroaches
2016
70
'
Student
Directed by
Timothy Cooper
.
The degraded surfaces of mass-copied films - the glitches, scanlines, errors, and coding artifacts - rather than the filmmaker’s imprint, reveal the material culture and social life of film
Kivalina
2016
64
'
RAI Basil Wright
Directed by
Gina Abatemarco
.
More than a hundred miles above the Arctic Circle, an Inupiaq Eskimo community is living on an island that is fast disappearing into the ocean. With no resources to move and only a precarious sea
Lampedusa in Winter
2015
93
'
RAI Basil Wright
Directed by
Jakob Brossmann
.
The Italian "refugee island" of Lampedusa is in the firm grip of winter's tristesse. The tourists have left, the remaining refugees fight to be taken to the mainland. As a fire destroys the
The Land Beneath Our Feet
2016
60
'
RAI Basil Wright
Directed by
Sarita Siegel
Gregg Mitman
.
The Land Beneath Our Feet weaves together rare archival footage from a 1926 Harvard expedition to Liberia with the journey of a young Liberian man, uprooted by war, seeking to understand how the past
Land of Udehe
2015
26
'
Student
Directed by
Ivan Golovnev
.
This film takes us into the world of Udehe – indigenous people of the Far East of Russia. According to the census of 2010, their population dropped to 1,490 souls…
Central Asia and Far East
Indigenous peoples / First Nations peoples
Social Change
Living with Boko Haram
2016
37
'
Special Interest
Directed by
Trond Waage
.
January 2015. Boko Haram's violent insurgency is approaching Mogdé, on the Nigerian/Cameroonian border, where Antoniette lives. Just outside Oslo, Norway, lives her son Vakote, worried and afraid
West Africa
Scandinavia
Religion / Belief / Faith
Social Conflict
War / Conflict / Reconciliation
Migration
The Log Rafters of Lake Aegeri
2016
29
'
Material Culture
Directed by
Thomas Horat
.
Aegeri, in a remote part of Switzerland, is one of the few lakes in Central Europe where professional log rafters can still be found. This film is based on the gentle observation of the work of a
Western Europe
Material Culture
Labour
Rural
My Name is Eeooow
2016
52
'
Intangible Culture
Directed by
Oinam Doren
.
Imagine a village where you sing every time you call someone's name. In the village of Kongthong, everybody has a song tune as a name - the 'Jingrwai Iawbei'. The name comes from a mother as an
Nodas. Launeddas at the time of crisis.
2015
29
'
Intangible Culture
Directed by
Umberto Cao
Andrea Mura
.
Dating back 3000 years to the Nuragic civilisation on Sardinia, 'launeddas' are wind instruments that testify to contacts from across the Mediterranean. Although they nearly vanished in the 1960s, in
Western Mediterranean
Music / Ethnomusicology
Festivals / Carnival
Intergenerational relations
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
Shepherds in the Cave
2016
87
'
Material Culture
Directed by
Anthony Grieco
.
An international team of art restorers, archaeologists and volunteers begin work on the restoration of religious frescoes inside a network of ancient caves. Faced with local bureaucratic challenges
Western Mediterranean
Archaeology
Herding
Art / Artists / Artisans
Law and Legislation / Bureaucracy
Socotra, the Island of Djinns
2016
64
'
RAI Basil Wright
Directed by
Jordi Esteva
.
The film is the story of a journey across the island of Socotra in the Indian Ocean, off the coast of Yemen. Socotra is isolated during the monsoon season, when it is impossible to land on it. This
Middle and Near East
Myths / Fairy tales
Nomads and Nomadism
Tourism / Travel / Pilgrimage
Trade
Those Who Jump
2016
80
'
Special Interest
Directed by
Estephan Wagner
Moritz Siebert
Abou Bakar Sidibé
.
In northern Morocco, lies the Spanish enclave of Melilla: Europe on African Land. On the mountain above, live over a thousand hopeful African migrants, watching the border fence. Abou from Mali is
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
Travel
2016
63
'
Special Interest
Directed by
Nick Mai
.
(This version of the film is edited using a single screen. For the split screen version see 'Travel - double screen version'). Joy left Nigeria to help her family after her father’s death. She
Western Europe
Sex / Sexuality
Labour
Migration
Ethnofiction
Informant-researcher relationship
Reflexivity
Treasured Moments
2016
33
'
Student
Directed by
Ravi Hart Lloyd
.
This is the personal story of a boy who grew up mixed in every aspect of his life, his parents, where he was from, his race. The black kid who thought that he was white. The white kid who thought
Caribbean Islands
North America
Family / Kinship
Race / Racism / Antiracism
Collective / Community identity
Film / Photography / Mass media
Twenty Two
2016
95
'
RAI Basil Wright
Directed by
Guo Ke
.
The film focuses on Chinese ‘comfort women’ during World War II. At the time of filming, only 22 of the 200,000 Chinese victims forced into sexual slavery remained alive. Quietly humanistic, this
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
Unity: Dress-scapes of Accra
2016
37
'
Directed by
Mara Lin Visser
.
This is a film about African fashion in the capital of Ghana. African printed fabrics seem to making a comeback in the fashion system of Accra. While following Allan, a fashion designer and his wife
West Africa
Trade
Material Culture
Art / Artists / Artisans
Uzu
2015
27
'
Directed by
Gaspard Kuentz
.
Held every October in the city of Matsuyama, the Dogo Autumn Festival is one of the most violent religious festivals celebrated in Japan. Eight teams of men carrying massive portable wood shrines
Central Asia and Far East
Ritual
Gender Role and Identity
The Way We Live Now
2016
32
'
Student
Directed by
Sophia Hersi Smith
.
'The Way We Live Now' is an intimate portrait of the daily routines and rituals of the Hadza; modern-day hunter-gatherers living in the acacia-baobab woodlands surrounding Lake Eyasi in North-Central
East Africa
Hunting / Gathering / Fishing
Everyday Life
Youth Group
2015
28
'
Student
Directed by
Wanwan Lu
.
Set in the predominantly Asian “ethnoburbs” of Los Angeles County, this film follows a vibrant Buddhist youth group in a Chinese-American temple. Youth group members, most raised by immigrant
North America
Collective / Community identity
Religion / Belief / Faith
Intergenerational relations
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