Film list

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MASTER FENG, TAOIST MONK IN CHINA TODAY 2018 72'
    Directed by Adeline HERROU .
This ethnographical film paints the portrait of a Taoist monk in central China. Forced to return to a lay life during the Cultural Revolution (1966-76), he was sent to work in the fields for 15th
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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
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MacDougall Masterclass - Turkana Conversations Revisited '
Masterclass
  Convened by Michael Stewart .
Marking 40 years since its original release as well as its more recent digital remastering, David MacDougall will present the classic trilogy he made with his wife Judith on the Turkana pastoralists
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Mahdi Fleifel Trilogy 103'
Shorts Programme
    Shorts .
Affects and Imaginaries of Racialisation
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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
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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
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Masterclass: Laurent Van Lancker 105'
Masterclass
  Convened by Chris Wright .
This year's RAI Film Festival Masterclass will be delivered by award-winning filmmaker Laurent Van Lancker, in conversation with Chris Wright. Van Lancker won the Basil Wright Prize at the RAI
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Midnight Ramblers 2017 57'
    Directed by Julian Ballester .
Night after night, Kye, Tobie, Paul, Kim and Tattoo wander through the streets and alleys of Montreal. They support each other, and they are all drug users. It is their only way of escaping a harsh
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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
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Milano Milanovaç (with Make a Silence) 2021 49'
    Music Docs Directed by Elisa Piria .
The film follows the life of Kristina, an extraordinary Serbian professional violinist. Music is everything in her family, any time is good for playing and everyone plays a musical instrument. But
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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.
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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
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The Modern Jungle 2016 72'
    RAI Basil Wright Directed by Charles Fairbanks .
The Modern Jungle is a portrait of globalization filtered through the fever dream of its main character – a Mexican shaman, don Juan – who falls under the spell of a pyramid-scheme-marketed
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Mossane (Safi Faye Special Focus) 1996 105'
    Special Interest Directed by Safi Faye .
The work of pioneering Senegalese filmmaker and ethnologist Safi Faye is the subject of our Special Focus at the 16th RAI Film Festival. Mossane is one of her greatest achievements, and we present
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Mother of Many Children 1977 57'
    Lifetime Achievement Award - Alanis Obomsawin Directed by Alanis Obomsawin .
In her first feature-length documentary Alanis Obomsawin honours the central place of women and mothers within Indigenous cultures. An album of Indigenous womanhood, the film portrays proud
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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
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Muir ar n-Athraichean (Our Fathers’ Sea) '
Talks
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Filmmaker Alastair Cole and anthropologist Magnus Course in conversation around the questions posed by their award-winning short film Muir ar n-Athreaichean (Our Fathers’ Sea). The film’s
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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
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P08a: Mask: the Face of Covid-19 '
Conference
  Convened by Felicia Hughes-Freeland Cathy Greenhalgh .
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P08b: Mask: the Face of Covid-19 '
Conference
  Convened by Felicia Hughes-Freeland Cathy Greenhalgh .
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P08c: Mask: the Face of Covid-19 '
Conference
  Convened by Felicia Hughes-Freeland Cathy Greenhalgh .
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‘Making of’ Anthropology on TV '
Workshop
  Convened by Evie Wright .
Filmmakers working with the BBC Natural History Unit will describe the practicalities of all the various stages of production – from the development of an idea with which to approach commissioners,