Film list

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Andrè Singer in conversation '
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Anthropology, Creative Practice and Ethnography '
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Anti-Racist Documentary Filmmaking Workshop '
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  Convened by Elena Guzman Miasarah Lai .
This workshop offers fundamental strategies for anti-racist documentary storytelling from concept to production. The need for anti-racist filmmaking has reverberated throughout the film industry with
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Beats of the Antonov 2014 68'
    Global Racialisations Directed by Hajooj Kuka .
Sudan has been in an almost constant state of civil war since it achieved independence in 1956, and it split into a pair of sovereign states in 2011. On the border between the two, Russian-made
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Beyond observation '
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Beyond observation: A history of authorship in ethnographic film. A discussion with Paul Henley. More than just introducing the best in new ethnographic films, the RAI FILM Festival also aims to take
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Broken Gods 2019 42'
    Werbner Award Directed by Dakxinkumar Bajrange (Chhara) Alice Tilche .
Set among the Rathava and Bhil Adivasi communities of western India, Broken Gods documents the social impact of Hindu religious evangelism among India’s Indigenous groups. As Indigenous people join
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Chasing Shadows 2019 70'
    Werbner Award Directed by Roger Canals .
This film is an intimate portrait of the Kyangyang prophetic movement in Guinea-Bissau. The members of the movement communicate with their ancestors, who transmit messages from the high God through
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Death of the One who Knows 2020 82'
    Werbner Award Directed by Dana Rappoport .
In the Toraja highlands of Sulawesi (Indonesia), Lumbaa is one of the last masters of ritual speech. After his forced conversion to Pentecostalism, he is compelled to stop all his ritual activity and
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Decolonising the Archive shorts #1 70'
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    Shorts .
Rethinking how collections are made and remembered
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Decolonising the Archive shorts #2 73'
Shorts Programme
    Shorts .
Rethinking how collections are made and remembered
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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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Engaging Media Worlds [NYU] '
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Filmmaking for Fieldwork '
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Fireball '
    Lifetime Achievement .
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Global Racialisations shorts 57'
Shorts Programme
    Shorts Convened by Mahdi Fleifel .
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Global racialisations - Q&A with directors '
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Half Elf 2020 64'
    Main Competition Directed by Jón Bjarki Magnússon .
A lighthouse keeper prepares his earthly funeral while trying to reconnect the elf within. Hulda and Trausti have shared a roof on Icelandic shores for over seventy years. Her love of books is
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The Healer and the Psychiatrist 2019 74'
    Werbner Award Directed by Mike Poltorak .
This film explores the tensions, contradictions, and resonances between traditional and psychiatric treatment in the South Pacific Island group of Vava’u. We meet two main characters: the
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I Am Belmaya 2020 80'
    Main Competition Directed by Sue Carpenter .
Belmaya is desperate for independence. Born a dalit in Nepal, orphaned aged 9, barely educated, and trapped in an abusive marriage with a baby daughter, Belmaya, 21, has given up hope of finding
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Imagine(ing) migration '
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Imagine(ing) migration. The aesthetics of borders and resistance [SOAS]. What is migration? Is this the “age of migration”? What is diaspora? What challenges do diasporic communities bring to
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In Search of Bidesia 2019 65'
    Music Docs Directed by Simit Bhagat .
In the Indian language of Bhojpuri the name ‘Bidesia’ refers to a person who has migrated to a foreign land. However, Bidesia is also the name of a genre of Bhojpuri folk music, which reflects
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In Search... 2018 90'
    Main Competition Directed by Beryl Magoko .
As a young girl growing up in a rural village in Kenya, Beryl thought that all women in the world have to be “circumcised” by going through Female Genital Mutilation/Cutting (FGM/C) at a young
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Keynote by Faye Ginsburg '
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Indigenous Media and Archival Imaginaries This talk considers archives created by Indigenous mediamakers who, over the last three decades, have produced an astonishing array of work -- from
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Keynote by Stephanie Spray '
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Stephanie Spray, Director, Center for Visual Anthropology at USC Dornsife, Los Angeles, USA.  She is a filmmaker, phonographer, and anthropologist whose work explores and exploits the poetics of
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Mahdi Fleifel Trilogy 103'
Shorts Programme
    Shorts .
Affects and Imaginaries of Racialisation
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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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Muir ar n-Athraichean (Our Fathers’ Sea) '
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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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Not in my Neighbourhood 2018 86'
    Global Racialisations Directed by Kurt Orderson .
As cities around the world catapult themselves into ‘world-class city status’, we have to ask ourselves, “at what cost”? This film tells the intergenerational stories of spatial violence in
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Ojò Igbì (with Gũlā) 2020 60'
    Music Docs Directed by Daniele Ferreira João Carlos Couto .
The ritual cycle of the Waters of Oxalá is one of the most important ceremonies of candomblé in Brazil. After days of preparation, the sons and daughters of the saint gather to cultivate and relive
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The Olive Pickers 2020 51'
    Werbner Award Directed by Toni de Bromhead .
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One Day in the Life of Noah Piugattuk 2019 113'
    Main Competition Directed by Zacharias Kunuk .
In April 1961, John Kennedy is America’s new President, the Cold War heats up in Berlin and nuclear bombers are deployed from bases in arctic Canada. In Kapuivik, north Baffin Island, Noah
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Ophir 2020 97'
    Main Competition Directed by Alexandre Berman Olivier Pollet .
This is a collaborative story of the civil war and ongoing struggle for sovereignty in Bougainville Island in the face of an all-too-familiar pattern of colonial rule and corporate mining interests.
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Oyate 2019 72'
    Main Competition Directed by Dan Girmus .
This carefully observed film is composed of a series of moments, feelings, gestures, and events that took place on Pine Ridge Reservation in South Dakota during the summer of 2015. The narrative,
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P01: Rethinking fieldwork '
Conference
  Convened by Maruska Svasek .
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P02a: Crisis, creativity and ethics '
Conference
  Convened by Timothy Cooper Till J F Trojer .
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P02b: Crisis, creativity and ethics '
Conference
  Convened by Timothy Cooper Till J F Trojer .
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P04: Rethinking anthropological film distribution '
Conference
  Convened by Christos Varvantakis Sanderien Verstappen .
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P05a: The crisis of communication '
Conference
  Convened by Federica Manfredi Lucia Portis .
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P05b: The crisis of communication '
Conference
  Convened by Federica Manfredi Lucia Portis .
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P06a: Worker’s precarity: audio-visual representations of resistance '
Conference
  Convened by Lana Askari Paloma Yáñez Serrano Jose Luis Fajardo-Escoffie .
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P06b: Worker’s precarity: audio-visual representations of resistance '
Conference
  Convened by Lana Askari Paloma Serrano Jose Luis Fajardo-Escoffie .
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P07: Critical play: Smartphones as a mode of creative engagement with crisis '
Conference
  Convened by Sanderien Verstappen Mark Westmoreland .
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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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P09: Together for Mental Health '
Conference
  Convened by Erminia Colucci .
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P10: Housing loss and insecurity '
Conference
  Convened by Caterina Sartori .
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P11: Social movements, protest, social justice & creativity '
Conference
  Convened by José Sherwood .
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P12a: Immersive Ethnography '
Conference
  Convened by Rossella Schillaci Mark Westmoreland .
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P12b: Immersive Ethnography '
Conference
  Convened by Rossella Schillaci Mark Westmoreland .
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P13: Our pandemic lives: photographing the pandemic '
Conference
  Convened by Caroline Bennett .
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P14: Co-agitō ergo sum '
Conference
  Convened by César Enrique Giraldo Herrera .
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P15: Quality and equality in collaborative projects '
Conference
  Convened by Arjang Omrani Kris Rutten .
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P16a: Global Black Lives Matter '
Conference
  Convened by Raminder Kaur Mariagiulia Grassilli .
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P16b: Global Black Lives Matter '
Conference
  Convened by Raminder Kaur Mariagiulia Grassilli .
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P16c: Global Black Lives Matter '
Conference
  Convened by Raminder Kaur Mariagiulia Grassilli .
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P17: Workshop: Radical inclusivity and visual ethnography '
Conference
  Convened by Mike Poltorak .
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P18: Chronotopes during crisis '
Conference
  Convened by Alastair Lomas Charlotte Hoskins Andrea Bordoli .
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P19: The future of Visual Anthropology in the wake of Black Lives Matter '
Conference
  Convened by Judith Aston Shawn Sobers .
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P20: Big mouth '
Conference
  Convened by Nomi Dave Bremen Donovan .
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P21: Crisis through comics: a roundtable discussion on graphic anthropology '
Conference
  Convened by Letizia Bonanno José Sherwood .
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P22: Rhythm, sight and sound: work in times of uncertainty '
Conference
  Convened by Sandro Simon Valerie Haensch Ian M. Cook .
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P23a: Disappearing world reloaded '
Conference
  Convened by Blake P Kendall Pavel Borecký .
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P23b: Disappearing world reloaded '
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  Convened by Blake P Kendall Pavel Borecký .
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P23c: Disappearing world reloaded '
Conference
  Convened by Blake P Kendall Pavel Borecký .
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P24: Encountering reality as crisis '
Conference
  Convened by Toma Peiu Luiza Parvu .
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P25: Between academic theory-building and social engagement '
Conference
  Convened by Henrike Neuhaus Yanina Carpentieri .
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P26a: Empirical art '
Conference
  Convened by Andy Lawrence Martha-Cecilia Dietrich Angélica Cabezas Pino .
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P26b: Empirical art '
Conference
  Convened by Andy Lawrence Martha-Cecilia Dietrich Angélica Cabezas Pino .
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P26c: Empirical art '
Conference
  Convened by Andy Lawrence Martha-Cecilia Dietrich Angélica Cabezas Pino .
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P26d: Empirical art '
Conference
  Convened by Andy Lawrence Martha-Cecilia Dietrich Angélica Cabezas Pino .
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P27a: Colonial Film Archives '
Conference
  Convened by Jacqueline Maingard Emma Sandon .
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P27b: Colonial Film Archives '
Conference
  Convened by Jacqueline Maingard Emma Sandon .
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P27c: Colonial Film Archives '
Conference
  Convened by Jacqueline Maingard Emma Sandon .
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Researching marriage, filming Family Time '
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Shorts 01 - Creative lives 100'
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    Shorts .
The power of art to make worlds come into being
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Shorts 02 - Women, empowerment and religion 69'
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    Shorts .
Ritual encounters with divinity
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Shorts 03 - Pleasure 76'
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Ground-breaking shorts exploring the world of sex and pleasure [NSFW! Contains adult content]
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Shorts 04 - Migration at the crossroads/1 62'
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    Shorts .
Questioning the representation of migrant experience
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Shorts 05 - Migration at the crossroads/2 71'
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    Shorts .
Questioning the representation of migrant experience
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Shorts 06 - Animals | Humans | Ritual 97'
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Close encounters with bees, cockrels, fish
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Shorts 07 - Sparks! 76'
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    Shorts .
Experimental short form pushing the boundaries of ethnographic film
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Shorts 08 - Livelihoods 90'
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Portraits of people working in rural settings
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Shorts 09 - Indigenous knowledge 110'
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Teaching the next generation
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Shorts 10 - Environmental crisis 69'
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    Shorts .
People coping with the consequeces of climate change, pollution and waste
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Stories from Cabo Corrientes 2020 77'
    Main Competition Directed by Jordi Esteva .
The documentary immerses us in the fantastic and magical stories of the inhabitants of Cabo Corrientes, Chocò District (Colombia) where a community of Afro-Colombians, descended from slaves of
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Survivors 2018 84'
    Main Competition Directed by WeOwnTV .
With unflinching intimacy this film chronicles the remarkable stories of four Sierra Leoneans during the Ebola epidemic in what is regarded as the most acute public health crisis of the modern era
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The Two Lives of Li Ermao 2019 87'
    Main Competition Directed by Jia Yuchuan .
Filmed over 17 years across Southern China, this remarkable film is an intimate and heart-wrenching portrait of Li Ermao, a transgender migrant worker, who performs in clubs looking for love and
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VHS Diaries 2020 72'
    Decolonising the Archive Directed by Niyaz Saghari .
The filmmaker revisits the diaries she kept during the years when video was banned in Iran. Using her personal VHS archive of films as a point of reference, the film explores a very personal film
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The Visual Scholarship Initiative '
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This session discusses the work of the Visual Scholarship Initiative (VSI), which was started in 2006 by a small group of graduate students at Emory University. It quickly established itself on the
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The Water Goddess and the Computer 1988 58'
    Lifetime Achievement Directed by J. Stephen Lansing Andre Singer .
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Who says the lepchas are vanishing (Bang the Drum) 2019 42'
    Music Docs Directed by Abhyuday Khaitan .
A tribute to Sonam Tshering Lepcha, cultural leader and creator of songs, literature, dances and a museum of the Lepcha people of north-west Bengal and Sikkim (India). His life has been devoted to