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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

Earning a Crust 2009 28'

Directed by Elisa Contreras .

Through their experiences, Uncle Isidro (a horse dealer) and Jeremo (a scrap collector) illustrate traditional gypsy occupations in the south of Spain, as well as the obstacles facing their

Western Mediterranean Travellers / Roma Labour

Easy Life 1996 30'

Directed by Amelia Hann .

This film is about a Breton woman and her family, their vision of life, and their clash with the French state which marked them as 'terrorists'.

Western Europe Political Activists Law and Legislation / Bureaucracy

Eat the Kimono 1989 60'

Directed by Kim Longinotto Claire Hunt .

A compelling biography of Hanayagi Genshu, a feminist and dancer who spent her lifetime defying the conservative traditions of Japanese society with her radical politics and unconventional

Central Asia and Far East Public Figure Gender Role and Identity Art / Artists / Artisans Dance / Theatre / Performance Alternative culture

Eco trip 1997 30'

Directed by Rachel Robertson .

A group of eco-activists travel around Britain attending festivals and other events aimed at raising awareness of ecological issues and of new, alternative ways of living. But sometimes relationships

British-Irish Isles Alternative culture Environment

Eid AI-Fitr 2015 70'

Directed by Xiangchen Liu .

Kirghiz people in western China celebrate the end of Ramadan with religious ceremonies, meals and other activities.

Elder sister 2017 96'

RAI Basil Wright Directed by Zheng Long .

From the 1970s, the "family planning" policies of the Chinese state limited its citizens to having one child. These policies are well-known. Lesser known are the smaller stories of how

Elder's Corner 2020 96'

Music Docs Directed by Siji Awoyinka .

From the colourful, celebratory sounds of Juju to the politicized urgency of Afrobeat, Nigerian musicians have spearheaded some of Africa's most prominent musical movements. For over a decade,

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Emails to My Little Sister 2018 35'

Directed by Solomon Mekonen .

An autoethnographic phenomenology of blackness in Berlin via Ethiopia. The film explores the historical and ongoing relationship between the so-called West and Africa. A brother who lives north of

Western Europe North and Northeast Africa Migration Race / Racism / Antiracism Colonialism / Postcolonialism Reflexivity

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Embera — the End of the Road 1971 52'

Directed by Brian Moser .

The way of life of the 10,000 Embera Indians who live in the Choco region of Colombia, South American, is threatened by the encroachments of Negro Libres (descendants of freed slaves) and by the

South America Land Rights Indigenous peoples / First Nations peoples

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

Encountering Eloyi 2008 56'

Directed by Richard Werbner .

Of all the faith-healing churches in Botswana, Eloyi is the most controversial. Sensational stories in newspapers and on television have made Eloyi notorious for so-called witch-busting and for

Southern Africa Health / Health care / Healing Ritual Religion / Belief / Faith Reproduction (biology)

Endgames 2008 32'

Directed by Ilinca Calugareanu .

The film follows a day in the life of Cluj-Napoca, a city in Transylvania, focusing on the way the lives of the three main characters - Valer, an 85 year old retired colonel, Daria, an 89 year old

South-East Europe Post-communism Elderly people Memory

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The Enemy: a Partisan Hymnbook 2015 80'

Directed by Federico Spinetti .

A gunshot echoes from 1944, leading Italian post-punk musician Massimo Zamboni to uncover his family’s past. Long after the break-up of C.S.I., the historic band that he co-founded, Zamboni calls

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Enet Yapai - an Ambonwari Girl 2008 25'

Directed by Daniela Vávrová .

Enet Yapai was six years old when Vavrova met her for the first time in 2005 in Ambonwari village, East Sepik Province, Papua New Guinea. Between November 2007 and April 2008 she followed Enet and

Melanesia Children / Young people Rural Everyday Life

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,

Ernesto, gracias 2022 71'

Main Competition Directed by Laura Ángel .

From her intimate gaze, Laura portrays her brother Ernesto and the dilemmas surrounding autism. Liliana, their mother, has carried the burden of a complex motherhood. Laura is afraid to repeat her mother’s story.

The Eskimos of Pond Inlet 1977 52'

Directed by Michael Grigsby .

For the Eskimos of Pond Inlet - a new village in North Baffin Island in which they have been settled by the Canadian Government – the life of the semi-nomadic hunter has given way to that of

North America Indigenous peoples / First Nations peoples Hunting / Gathering / Fishing Collective / Community identity Social Conflict

The Ethnographer 2012 86'

Directed by Ulises Rosell .

John Palmer arrived in a Wichí community, located in Argentina, thirty years ago as an anthropologist - today he has married a Wichí woman with whom he has five sons in the last 5 years, who babble

South America History of Anthropology Everyday Life Informant-researcher relationship

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Even Asteroids Are Not Alone 2018 17'

Directed by Jón Bjarki Magnússon .

Eve Online is a computer game in which players mine, trade and fight their way through computer-generated galaxies. Whilst computer game aficionados are often depicted as isolated, this game is

Internet

Even When I Fall 2017 95'

RAI Basil Wright Directed by Kate McLarnon Sky Neal .

Sheetal and Saraswoti met as teenagers in a Kathmandu refuge, both survivors of child trafficking to Indian circuses. They had been rescued and brought back across the border to Nepal- but what does

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Every Good Marriage Begins With Tears 2007 63'

Directed by Simon Chambers .

East London Muslim girl Shahanara is changing form pink hot pants into a sari to meet her husband at the airport. She has only met him once before, when she was married in a union arranged by her

London Family / Kinship Gender Role and Identity Marriage Intergenerational relations Social Norms

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Everything is Relatives - William Rivers (1864-1922) 1986 52'

Directed by André Singer .

Central Television’s major documentary series looks at the first anthropologists to stop ‘armchair theorising’ and go out to live among the peoples who so interested them. The six part series

Various History of Anthropology Public Figure

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

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An Extraordinary Wedding: Marriage and Modernity in Highlands, Papua New Guinea 2018 55'

Directed by Rosita Henry Daniela Vavrova .

An Extraordinary Wedding is a film about contemporary marital exchanges in the Western Highlands of Papua New Guinea. The film presents the complex relationships entangled in a web of bridewealth

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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

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