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Ayouni
2020
75
'
Directed by
Yasmin Fedda
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Bassel was a successful open source developer and hacker in Damascus. Paolo was a well-known priest based in Mar Musa monastery. Both men were active in the 2011 Syrian revolution, and witnesses to
Middle and Near East
War / Conflict / Reconciliation
Memory
Political Activists
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
The Body Won't Close
2020
74
'
Main Competition
Directed by
Mattijs van de Port
.
Our bodies are semi-permeable. All over the world, stories are being told about heroes who magically “close” their bodies, so as to become invincible. This film follows one such story, as it is
South America
Essay film
Gender Role and Identity
Folklore
Reflexivity
Broken Gods
2019
42
'
Werbner Award
Directed by
Dakxinkumar Bajrange (Chhara)
Alice Tilche
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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
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
A Colombian Family
2020
80
'
Main Competition
Directed by
Tanja Wol Sørensen
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A powerful mother-daughter drama is at the centre of this film. Rooted in disagreement—both personal and political—the film follows the consequences of a war that leaves them with an impossible
South America
War / Conflict / Reconciliation
Family / Kinship
Gender Role and Identity
Intergenerational relations
Memory
Migration
Personal Narrative
Political Activists
Refugees / Displaced populations
Social Conflict
Death of the One who Knows
2020
82
'
Werbner Award
Directed by
Dana Rappoport
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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
Elder's Corner
2020
96
'
Music Docs
Directed by
Siji Awoyinka
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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,
Fireball
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Lifetime Achievement
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Half Elf
2020
64
'
Main Competition
Directed by
Jón Bjarki Magnússon
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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
The Healer and the Psychiatrist
2019
74
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Werbner Award
Directed by
Mike Poltorak
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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
I Am Belmaya
2020
80
'
Main Competition
Directed by
Sue Carpenter
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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
In Search of Bidesia
2019
65
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Music Docs
Directed by
Simit Bhagat
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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
In Search...
2018
90
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Main Competition
Directed by
Beryl Magoko
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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
A Kali Temple Inside Out
2018
83
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Werbner Award
Directed by
Dipesh Kharel
Frode Storaas
.
Religious boundaries in India are not necessarily as sharp and antagonistic as news media lead us to believe. This film portrays everyday life inside and around a Kali temple in the city of Kanpur,
South Asia
Religion / Belief / Faith
Collective / Community identity
Milano Milanovaç (with Make a Silence)
2021
49
'
Music Docs
Directed by
Elisa Piria
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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
A New Era
2019
71
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Werbner Award
Directed by
Boris Svartzman
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In 2008, local authorities evicted 2,000 villagers from Guanzhou, a river island in Southern China, to make way for new urban planning projects. In spite of the demolition of their houses and police
Central Asia and Far East
Urban
Development projects
Infrastructure\transport
Land rights
Resettlement
Not in my Neighbourhood
2018
86
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Global Racialisations
Directed by
Kurt Orderson
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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
Ojò Igbì (with Gũlā)
2020
60
'
Music Docs
Directed by
Daniele Ferreira
João Carlos Couto
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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
The Olive Pickers
2020
51
'
Werbner Award
Directed by
Toni de Bromhead
.
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
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.
Oyate
2019
72
'
Main Competition
Directed by
Dan Girmus
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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,
Palimpsest of the Africa Museum
2019
69
'
Directed by
Matthias De Groof
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In 2013, the Royal Museum for Central Africa in Brussels (Belgium) closed for renovation. It is not only the building and the museum cabinets that are in need of renewal: the spirit of the museum has
Western Europe
Archival material / Museum displays
Colonialism / Postcolonialism
Race / Racism / Antiracism
Education / Knowledge Transmission
History of Anthropology
Palimpsest of the Africa Museum
2019
69
'
Decolonising the Archive
Directed by
Matthias De Groof
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In 2013, the Royal Museum for Central Africa in Brussels (Belgium) closed for renovation. It is not only the building and the museum cabinets that are in need of renewal: the spirit of the museum has
Western Europe
Archival materials / Museum displays
Archaeology
Education / Knowledge transmission
History of Anthropology
Colonialism / Postcolonialism
Race / Racism / Antiracism
Persistence
2019
54
'
Main Competition
Directed by
Anne Huffschmid
Jan-Holger Hennies
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Human bodies don’t simply disappear. They were kidnapped, buried, broken into pieces. But they are also searched for, recovered and if forensic experts achieve the unlikely, reconstructed as
Central America
Forensic
Memory
Stories from Cabo Corrientes
2020
77
'
Main Competition
Directed by
Jordi Esteva
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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
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
Suspension
2019
73
'
Werbner Award
Directed by
Simón Uribe
.
This film documents the building of a modern road through the imposing geography of southern Colombia. It brilliantly captures some of the absurdities and contradictions of a construction project
South America
Development projects
Infrastructure / Transport
Material Culture
Rural
TOTE_Grandfather
2019
80
'
Main Competition
Directed by
María Sojob
.
This film portrays an unexpected encounter between an old Tzotzil man, who is going blind, and his granddaughter, who does not remember her childhood well. The granddaughter, having grown up in the
Central America
Indigenous Filmmaking
Gender Role and Identity
Family / Kinship
Indigenous peoples / First Nations peoples
Elderly people
Love
Intergenerational relations
Linguistics / Language
Memory
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
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
The Water Goddess and the Computer
1988
58
'
Lifetime Achievement
Directed by
J. Stephen Lansing
Andre Singer
.
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