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#deaftravel: Deaf Tourism in Bali 2021 110'

Disability Futures Directed by Erin Moriarty Jorn Rijckaert .

An ethnographic film that explores the experiences of deaf tourists who visited Bali in the summer of 2018. The tourists from Europe, the USA, and India joined tours guided by two deaf tour guides,

All Eyez on Me! 2021 30'

Shorts Directed by Robert Weijs .

Over a period of 15 years, the filmmaker visits the Loita Maasai in Kenya, becoming close friends with brothers Lenaai and Matinkoi. Lenaai, aware of how the outside world looks at the Maasai,

All God's Children 2022 67'

Werbner Award Directed by Robert Lemelson Chisako Yokoyama Adair .

Well over half a million children in Indonesia are on the autism spectrum and have varying difficulty with social interaction and communication. Idris is a nonverbal autistic boy living in rural Java

Andrè Singer in conversation '

Animation 2023 60'

Special Programmes
Animation .

Screening online 3-31 March, and at Watershed (Bristol, UK) 25 March, 17:00-18:00

Anshan Diaries 2022 27'

Student Directed by Xiuzhi Dong .

Director Charles Xiuzhi Dong uses real family life as its backdrop. Casting his grandpa he investigates and retraces his family saga spanning three decades of Chinese post-cultural revolution history.

Anthropology, Creative Practice and Ethnography '

Anti-Racist Documentary Filmmaking Workshop '

Talks
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

Arandu - Listen to the Weather 2023 '

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A curated programme streaming online 3-31 March 2023. Click here to buy an online festival pass. Live in Bristol 22-25 March 2023. At ICA (London), Sunday 19 March 2023, 18:15 The aim of ARANDU -

Ariella Aïsha Azoulay 2023 '

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As Aye, 2022 26'

Student Directed by Sam Kenyon .

As Aye, is a fragment of correspondence with author and storyteller, Jess Smith, and with the ‘absent presence’ of Scottish Travellers in the archive and the landscape. Drawing on the memory and

Bariz (Paris) Street Camp Days 2020 69'

Werbner Award Directed by Nicolas Jaoul .

Summer 2015. La Chapelle neighbourhood, Paris. Hundreds of exiled people from East Africa survive on the streets, chased violently by the police, yet seeking to defend their rights as asylum seekers.

Bearing 2021 29'

Shorts Directed by Rosie Reed Hillman .

The everyday frustrations, heartache and joy of early motherhood are revealed through intimate, observational vignettes, offering a frank and raw account of the filmmaker’s life as a new mum over

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

Belle River 2022 11'

Shorts Directed by Guillaume Fournier Samuel Matteau Yannick Nolin .

It is 2019. Spring flooding in Mississippi hits record highs. In Louisiana, the residents of Pierre-Part are preparing for the worst. Barring an unexpected turn of events, local authorities will soon

Beyond observation '

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

Bill Reid Remembers 2021 24'

Lifetime Achievement Award - Alanis Obomsawin Directed by Alanis Obomsawin .

Bill Reid Remembers is a beautiful tribute from Alanis Obomsawin to her friend’s remarkable life and rich legacy. Despite spending his early life away from his nation’s culture, renowned Haida

Bridging the Gap 2021 7'

Animation Directed by Nina Ross Meg Barrett .

Aged 18, Meg started hearing a voice. She tried ignoring it, didn’t tell a soul, yet the voice grew. More abusive, more delusional and often completely out of her control. Eventually, her paranoia

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

Cara Romero: Following the Light 2022 27'

Shorts Directed by Kaela Waldstein .

An enrolled citizen of the Chemehuevi Indian Tribe, Romero was raised between contrasting settings: the rural Chemehuevi reservation in Mojave Desert, CA and the urban sprawl of Houston, TX.

Carnival King of Europe. Release 2.0 2011 38'

Directed by Michele Trentini Giovanni Kezich .

Award-winning ethnographic caleidoscope featuring over 50 different masquerades of some 13 European countries. Thanks to some careful editing, the underlying structure of European winter masked

Western Europe South-East Europe Central Europe Festivals / Carnival Folklore

The Chalice. Of Sons and Daughters 2022 85'

Werbner Award Directed by Catalina Tesar Dana Bunescu .

In a traditional Transylvanian Roma community, boys alone inherit the family’s badge, the tahtais (chalices), silver cups that come from their ancestors. As a result, couples often resort to sex

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

Christmas at Moose Factory 1971 13'

Lifetime Achievement Award - Alanis Obomsawin Directed by Alanis Obomsawin .

This lyrical short documentary marked the directorial debut of legendary Abenaki director Alanis Obomsawin. Filmed at a residential school in northern Ontario, it is composed entirely of drawings by

Concrete Sea 2021 15'

Shorts Directed by Julia Naidin .

As an exercise of resistance, Sônia follows the process of destruction caused by the sea, which day by day, advances into the beach and approaches her home. She makes daily records of this process

Cornershop Beats 2022 8'

Shorts Directed by Bassam Al-Khaled Abdel Malek Al Ali Saja Awad .

In a family run grocery shop in Saida, Lebanon a father and son try to make their dreams come true.

Cruces 2020 23'

Student Directed by Carlos Tobon Franco .

An immersive expedition throughout the geographies and stories composing the Latin American journey to reach US soil. By weaving together oral histories and the landscape, the film is structured to

Shorts Directed by Nisreen Hazineh Anas Al Sheikh Shawki Al Hallak .

We have fallen and are trying to stand. We keep on going… The world keeps spinning and we spin along with it in search for our daily bread in the current economic situation. We have become like the

David MacDougall 2023 90'

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This conversation will take place on Monday 6 March 2023 10:00 - 11:30, UK time, online. It will be live streamed here. Click here to buy a Full Festival Pass for entry to all the festival’s

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

Decolonising the Archive shorts #1 70'

Shorts Programme
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Rethinking how collections are made and remembered

Decolonising the Archive shorts #2 73'

Shorts Programme
Shorts .

Rethinking how collections are made and remembered

Desterro Guarani 2011 38'

Arandu - Listen to the Weather Directed by Vincent Carelli Ernesto de Carvalho Patrícia Ferreira Ariel Duarte Ortega .

The Mbya-Guarani’s history of contact and expulsion from the land. As Ariel Ortega thinks about the history of contact of the Myba-Guarani, he tries to understand how his people got expelled from

Disability Futures 2023 '

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Don’t miss the plenary session with Anneleis Kusters and Erin Moriarty: Birth of a genre: Re-framing language in deaf ethnographic film

Duende 2022 27'

Student Directed by Lucia Barrenetxea Lopez .

Duende takes us through one of the most awaited festivals in Granada, Spain: Easter week. Duende is an intimate, unexpected tale of an encounter with the afterlife, a series of miracles that can only

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,

Engaging Media Worlds [NYU] '

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.

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

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

A Family Portrait 2022 5'

Student Directed by Shubham Sharma .

“After finding a family portrait on my phone one evening in Germany, I felt a longing for my hometown. I wanted to make a film about it. But how can you talk about your family portrait without

Filmmaking for Fieldwork '

Lifetime Achievement .

Forms of Care 2022 7'

Animation Directed by Charlotte Kühlbrandt Maayan L. Matz .

A stop-motion animation following the story of a mundane death, and the forms of care that accompany it. The script is taken verbatim from an interview conducted as part of an ethnographic research

From Ikpeng children to the world 2001 35'

Arandu - Listen to the Weather Directed by Kumaré Ikpeng Karané Ikpeng Natuyu Yuwipo Txicão .

A video letter from four Ikpeng children introducing their village, in response to the children of the Sierra Maestra in Cuba. With grace and lightness they show their families, their games, their

The Future of Work? 2022 21'

Student Directed by Yihao Yan .

Digital nomads are a highly mobile group of people who travel while working. Digital nomadism is considered a utopian life and a liberation from sedentary society, but it can also become a privilege.

Gambote 2022 24'

Shorts Directed by Sofia Bensadon .

The clay mountains of the Chuquiago Valley are transformed into brick every day on the outskirts of La Paz City, Bolivia. Irineo and Rosa grind the clay, mould, dry, and burn the bricks every day, in

Global Racialisations shorts 57'

Shorts Programme
Shorts Convened by Mahdi Fleifel .

Global racialisations - Q&A with directors '

Gule Wamkulu: The Great Dance 1991 37'

Directed by Charles Namondwe .

Performed by the Chewa secret societies, Gule Wamkulu is a form of masked dance which takes place at male initiation ceremonies, funerals, and other major celebrations. Acting as a medium between the

Southern Africa Dance / Theatre / Performance Ritual

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

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

Honour to Senator Murray Sinclair 2021 29'

Lifetime Achievement Award - Alanis Obomsawin Directed by Alanis Obomsawin .

As the Chair of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission, Senator Murray Sinclair was a key figure in raising global awareness of the atrocities of Canada’s residential school system. With

How to Save a Dead Friend 2022 103'

Main Competition Directed by Marusya Syroechkovskaya .

Muzzled by the increasingly autocratic regime of the “Depression Federation”, 16-year-old Marusya decides to join her generations’ suicide statistics by year’s end. Then she meets Kimi and a

I (heart) Jack Lalanne: A Cartoon Memoir 2022 14'

Animation Directed by LeAnn Erickson .

The filmmaker, a lesbian, feminist baby boomer, shares her coming out story with the help of exercise guru Jack LaLanne. Combining animation with the written memoir, I (heart) Jack LaLanne pushes the

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

I Am the World 2022 9'

Shorts Directed by Che Applewhaite .

A speculative documentary that explores how an archive of networked moving images, featuring famed ballroom hosts Selvin “MC Debra” Mizrahi and Kelly Gorgeous Gucci, enables worldly ways of seeing.

I've already become an image 2008 32'

Arandu - Listen to the Weather Directed by Zezinho Yube .

A group of Hunikui men tell of the five ages that mark their most recent past: from ‘the time of the Indian lodge’, to first contact with the Nawá, the non-Indian people who came looking for

Ian Gleadell: A Falkland Farmer 1987 34'

Directed by Bob Edwards Alastair Kenneil .

The 1982 war between Britain and Argentina brought the Falkland or Malwinas Islands into the news headlines. This film is less spectacular: It shows the way of life of one inhabitant of this

South America Animals Agriculture / Farming

Imagine(ing) migration '

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

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

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

The Intersection 2021 30'

Shorts Directed by Daniel Quintanilla Jessamine Irwin .

Cecile reconnects with the French of her childhood, thanks to recently-arrived Franco-African immigrants, like Trésor, seeking asylum in Cecile’s hometown of Lewiston, Maine. Cecile’s Franco

Kanehsatake: 270 Years of Resistance 1993 119'

Lifetime Achievement Award - Alanis Obomsawin Directed by Alanis Obomsawin .

In July 1990, a dispute over a proposed golf course to be built on Kanien’kéhaka (Mohawk) lands in Oka, Quebec, set the stage for a historic confrontation that would grab international headlines

Kat Cizek 2023 90'

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This conversation is taking place online on Friday 10 March 2023 17:00 - 18:30, UK time, online. This event will be live streamed on https://www.facebook.com/raifilmfest Why co-create – and why

Keynote by Faye Ginsburg '

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

Keynote by Stephanie Spray '

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

Khayyam in Bushehr 2021 56'

Ethnomusicology Directed by Yasin Mohammadi .

Khayyam in Bushehr highlights the life story of those who show their passion and joy for life by chanting Omar Khayyam’s poems with music and dance.

Kisêdjê Manifesto 2012 11'

Arandu - Listen to the Weather Directed by Kamikia P.T. Kisedje .

Kisêdjê women’s manifesto against deforestation and river pollution. Filmmaker Kamikia Kisêdjê and the Kisêdjê Cinema Collective decided to send a message from their people to the United

La Nave 2021 52'

Main Competition Directed by Carlos Maria Romero .

Colombian artist and first-time filmmaker Carlos Maria Romero (aka Atabey Mamasita), translates the meaning and spirit of Carnaval de Barranquilla during a year in which gatherings were forbidden.

La Tumba Mambi 2022 28'

Ethnomusicology Directed by Alexandrine Boudreault-Fournier DJ Jigüe .

As a result of the Haitian Revolution (1791-1804), many French settlers travelled to Eastern Cuba with their slaves to escape the revolt. The Tumba Francesa Societies, known as a brotherhood and a

Let Him Fly 2021 29'

Ethnomusicology Directed by Ethiraj Gabriel Dattatreyan .

Let Him Fly draws on footage shot over eight years to lyrically document the rise and exponential growth of the Delhi hip hop scene. The film spotlights some of the most influential artists on the

The Lindisfarne Causeway 2022 20'

Student Directed by Sammy-Lena Stasse .

The Lindisfarne Causeway is a road that disappears into the sea twice a day. The filmmaker uses boredom and daydreaming as a method to get to know this place. A poetic world of tarmac silence,

Little Palestine, Diary of a Siege 2021 89'

Main Competition Directed by Abdallah Al-Khatib .

During the Syrian civil war, Yarmouk, a district of Damascus where thousands of Palestinians are refugees, was the site of fierce fighting. Little Palestine, Diary of a Siege is a filmed diary that

Mahdi Fleifel Trilogy 103'

Shorts Programme
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Affects and Imaginaries of Racialisation

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

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

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

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

Muir ar n-Athraichean (Our Fathers’ Sea) '

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

Nhanderu Bicycles 2011 48'

Arandu - Listen to the Weather Directed by Ariel Duarte Ortega Patricia Ferreira .

An immersion in the everyday spirituality of the Mbya-Guarani of Koenju village, in São Miguel das Missões in Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil. This film is part of Arandu: Listen to the Weather, a

North Circular 2022 85'

Ethnomusicology Directed by Luke McManus .

Travelling the length of Dublin’s fabled North Circular Road, this documentary musical evokes narratives from the history of the city and nation, from colonialism, to mental health, to the struggle

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

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

The Olive Pickers 2020 51'

Werbner Award Directed by Toni de Bromhead .

Once Upon a Village 2021 60'

Main Competition Directed by Srishti Lakhera .

Semla is a ghost village in the Himalayan foothills. The fifty families that once lived there have migrated to the city, leaving behind seven people. With this migration, livelihood connected to the

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.

The Order of Things 2022 72'

Werbner Award Directed by Ramona Badescu Jeff Silva .

At the ripe age of 90 years old, Alexandru gardens, jokes, and continues to repair watches in the workshop opened by his father in 1909 in southern Romania. But what is invisible to everyone, and

Our People Will Be Healed 2017 97'

Lifetime Achievement Award - Alanis Obomsawin Directed by Alanis Obomsawin .

The landmark 50th film for Alanis Obomsawin reveals how a Cree community in Manitoba has turned to education as part of their efforts of community healing cultural revival. The Helen Betty Osborne

Our spirits keep coming 2021 15'

Shorts Directed by Ariel Ortega Bruno Huyer .

In Tekoa Ko’ẽju, Pará Yxapy, a Mbya Guarani indigenous woman is dedicated to the first moments of care towards her child, who lies in her womb, and, along with her relatives, ponders about the

Out Swing 2021 26'

Shorts Directed by Samar Minallah Khan .

On the outskirts of Islamabad, a committed coach teaches a team of unlikely players, their families, and a community, how playing cricket can change lives.

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,

P01: Rethinking fieldwork '

Conference
Convened by Maruska Svasek .

P02a: Crisis, creativity and ethics '

Conference
Convened by Timothy Cooper Till J F Trojer .

P02b: Crisis, creativity and ethics '

Conference
Convened by Timothy Cooper Till J F Trojer .

P03: Existential crisis, exceptional fields '

P04: Rethinking anthropological film distribution '

Conference
Convened by Christos Varvantakis Sanderien Verstappen .

P05a: The crisis of communication '

Conference
Convened by Federica Manfredi Lucia Portis .

P05b: The crisis of communication '

Conference
Convened by Federica Manfredi Lucia Portis .

P06a: Worker’s precarity: audio-visual representations of resistance '

Conference
Convened by Lana Askari Paloma Yáñez Serrano Jose Luis Fajardo-Escoffie .

P06b: Worker’s precarity: audio-visual representations of resistance '

Conference
Convened by Lana Askari Paloma Serrano Jose Luis Fajardo-Escoffie .

P07: Critical play: Smartphones as a mode of creative engagement with crisis '

Conference
Convened by Sanderien Verstappen Mark Westmoreland .

P08a: Mask: the Face of Covid-19 '

Conference
Convened by Felicia Hughes-Freeland Cathy Greenhalgh .

P08b: Mask: the Face of Covid-19 '

Conference
Convened by Felicia Hughes-Freeland Cathy Greenhalgh .

P08c: Mask: the Face of Covid-19 '

Conference
Convened by Felicia Hughes-Freeland Cathy Greenhalgh .

P09: Together for Mental Health '

Conference
Convened by Erminia Colucci .

P10: Housing loss and insecurity '

Conference
Convened by Caterina Sartori .

P11: Social movements, protest, social justice & creativity '

Conference
Convened by José Sherwood .

P12a: Immersive Ethnography '

Conference
Convened by Rossella Schillaci Mark Westmoreland .

P12b: Immersive Ethnography '

Conference
Convened by Rossella Schillaci Mark Westmoreland .

P13: Our pandemic lives: photographing the pandemic '

Conference
Convened by Caroline Bennett .

P14: Co-agitō ergo sum '

Conference
Convened by César Enrique Giraldo Herrera .

P15: Quality and equality in collaborative projects '

Conference
Convened by Arjang Omrani Kris Rutten .

P16a: Global Black Lives Matter '

Conference
Convened by Raminder Kaur Mariagiulia Grassilli .

P16b: Global Black Lives Matter '

Conference
Convened by Raminder Kaur Mariagiulia Grassilli .

P16c: Global Black Lives Matter '

Conference
Convened by Raminder Kaur Mariagiulia Grassilli .

P17: Workshop: Radical inclusivity and visual ethnography '

Conference
Convened by Mike Poltorak .

P18: Chronotopes during crisis '

Conference
Convened by Alastair Lomas Charlotte Hoskins Andrea Bordoli .

P19: The future of Visual Anthropology in the wake of Black Lives Matter '

Conference
Convened by Judith Aston Shawn Sobers .

P20: Big mouth '

Conference
Convened by Nomi Dave Bremen Donovan .

P21: Crisis through comics: a roundtable discussion on graphic anthropology '

Conference
Convened by Letizia Bonanno José Sherwood .

P22: Rhythm, sight and sound: work in times of uncertainty '

Conference
Convened by Sandro Simon Valerie Haensch Ian M. Cook .

P23a: Disappearing world reloaded '

Conference
Convened by Blake P Kendall Pavel Borecký .

P23b: Disappearing world reloaded '

Conference
Convened by Blake P Kendall Pavel Borecký .

P23c: Disappearing world reloaded '

Conference
Convened by Blake P Kendall Pavel Borecký .

P24: Encountering reality as crisis '

Conference
Convened by Toma Peiu Luiza Parvu .

P25: Between academic theory-building and social engagement '

Conference
Convened by Henrike Neuhaus Yanina Carpentieri .

P26a: Empirical art '

Conference
Convened by Andy Lawrence Martha-Cecilia Dietrich Angélica Cabezas Pino .

P26b: Empirical art '

Conference
Convened by Andy Lawrence Martha-Cecilia Dietrich Angélica Cabezas Pino .

P26c: Empirical art '

Conference
Convened by Andy Lawrence Martha-Cecilia Dietrich Angélica Cabezas Pino .

P26d: Empirical art '

Conference
Convened by Andy Lawrence Martha-Cecilia Dietrich Angélica Cabezas Pino .

P27a: Colonial Film Archives '

Conference
Convened by Jacqueline Maingard Emma Sandon .

P27b: Colonial Film Archives '

Conference
Convened by Jacqueline Maingard Emma Sandon .

P27c: Colonial Film Archives '

Conference
Convened by Jacqueline Maingard Emma Sandon .

Parizad 2021 24'

Shorts Directed by Mehdi Imani Shahmiri .

Keshvar is a lonely, old woman crafting an ancient, unknown woven textile, telling a strange story of a fairy and a shepherd who came to their village one day.

Poundmaker’s Lodge 1987 29'

Lifetime Achievement Award - Alanis Obomsawin Directed by Alanis Obomsawin .

Just north of the City of Edmonton lies Poundmaker’s Lodge, an addiction and mental-health facility specialising in treatment for Indigenous people. Founded in 1973 and still operational today, the

President's Award - Trinh T. Minh-ha 2023 '

Special Programmes
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She will receive the award in person on Thursday 23 March, at the screening of What About China? at Arnolfini (Bristol). On that occasion Trinh T. Minh-ha will be in conversation with May Adadol Ingawanij.

Prism 2021 78'

Werbner Award Directed by Rosine Mbakam Eléonore Yaméogo An van Dienderen .

Belgian filmmaker An van. Dienderen invited Brussels-based Rosine Mbakam from Cameroon, and Paris-based Eléonore Yameogo from Burkina Faso to make a film in which their different skin colour serves

The Prison Promise 2022 55'

Main Competition Directed by Joseph Dégramon Ndjom .

While still prisoners, director Joseph Dégramon Ndjom’s uncle, Detyr and his companion, Adèle, made a promise to each other: to start a new life together once they were free. Today, they live in

Pushing Boundaries 2021 102'

Disability Futures Directed by Lesia Kordonets .

Athletes from the Ukrainian Paralympic National Team have lost their training base in Crimea due to the Russian annexation in 2014. They try to adapt to the new historic conditions in their private,

Reclaiming the Forest 1987 39'

Directed by Paul Henley Georges Drion .

National governments, itinerant gold-miners, and indigenous inhabitants compete for control of an area of the South American rainforest. The film shows the potential conflict between the interests

South America Land Rights Indigenous peoples / First Nations peoples Social Change Social Conflict

Researching marriage, filming Family Time '

Sarah Pink 2023 90'

Special Programmes
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This talk will be live streamed online on Tuesday 7 March 2023 10:00 - 11:30, UK time. There is a mounting ethical onus on anthropological filmmakers to go further in their engagements with futures;

Shomõtsi 2001 42'

Arandu - Listen to the Weather Directed by Wewito Piyãko .

Chronicle of the daily life of Shomõtsi, an engaging and gregarious Ashenika man living in a village at the border between Brazil and Peru. Our guide in the film is Shomõtsi’s nephew Valdete, a

Shorts 01 - Creative lives 100'

Shorts Programme
Shorts .

The power of art to make worlds come into being

Shorts 02 - Women, empowerment and religion 69'

Shorts Programme
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Ritual encounters with divinity

Shorts 03 - Pleasure 76'

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Ground-breaking shorts exploring the world of sex and pleasure [NSFW! Contains adult content]

Shorts 04 - Migration at the crossroads/1 62'

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Questioning the representation of migrant experience

Shorts 05 - Migration at the crossroads/2 71'

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Questioning the representation of migrant experience

Shorts 06 - Animals | Humans | Ritual 97'

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Close encounters with bees, cockrels, fish

Shorts 07 - Sparks! 76'

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Experimental short form pushing the boundaries of ethnographic film

Shorts 08 - Livelihoods 90'

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Portraits of people working in rural settings

Shorts 09 - Indigenous knowledge 110'

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Teaching the next generation

Shorts 10 - Environmental crisis 69'

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People coping with the consequeces of climate change, pollution and waste

Sing My Sister 2022 85'

Ethnomusicology Directed by Karen Boswall Alzira Guetsa André Bahule .

Communities of women across Mozambique use song, dance and stories to present a female perspective of three gendered ideological moments in their country’s history. Three co-authored musical

The Sky Wept for Forty Days 2022 62'

Werbner Award Directed by Sabrina Mervin .

The Sky Wept for Forty Days is an immersion in a Shi’a pilgrimage, which once a year attracts millions of faithful to Karbala, in Iraq. Their journey, on foot, lasts at least three days. They reach

Slow Return 2021 80'

Main Competition Directed by Philip Cartelli .

A river flows out to sea through a network of wetlands, salt marshes, and petrochemical plants. A melting glacier, its surface covered in protective cloth, still attracts tourists. Slow Return

The Soil 2022 71'

Ethnomusicology Directed by Zuzanna Solakiewicz .

A contemporary village and its unconventional dwellers of different ages have one thing in common; their strong attachment to folk culture. In this film, music is as important as images, accompanying

Stories about Mlimani Park Orchestra 2022 110'

Ethnomusicology Directed by Frank Gunderson .

Tanzanian rhumba band, Mlimani Park Orchestra (aka Sikinde), performs in the music genre musiki wa dansi (literally, “music for dancing”), a variation of the Cuban-based rumba idiom that has been

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

Strengh of Women Pataxó of the Mother Village 2019 58'

Arandu - Listen to the Weather Directed by Caamini Braz Vanuzia Bonfim .

Pataxó women speak up. This film is part of Arandu: Listen to the Weather, a festival sidebar celebrating 35 years of Indigenous filmmaking from Brazil: key films and filmmakers working from the

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

Swirling in the dreams 2022 78'

Main Competition Directed by Hung En Su .

In spite of the spread of Christianity and introduction of modern medicine, Taiwan’s indigenous peoples have always had a need for their traditional beliefs. For the people in these tribes, when

Ten by Ten 2021 29'

Student Directed by Jami L. Bennett .

There is no denying the evocative power of food to remind us of who we are and where we come from. After living in Asia for over fifteen years, Jessica was longing for the burgers and barbecue of her

This Land Is Our Land! 2020 70'

Arandu - Listen to the Weather Directed by Isael Maxakali Sueli Maxakali Carolina Canguçu Roberto Romero .

“In the old day, whites did not exist on our lands, and we lived hunting with our yãmưyxop spirits. But the whites came, felled the woods, dried the rivers and chased the animals away. Today, our

A Thousand Fires 2021 90'

Main Competition Directed by Saeed Taji Farouky .

Parents Htwe Tin and Thein Shwe work hard to give their children a better future, their lives governed by a web of karma and astrology. All their hopes are pinned on their youngest son – Zin Ko

Toang 2022 37'

Student Directed by Rizky Maulana .

Toang is an intimate portrait of a rice paddy farmer and his family in Indramayu (Indonesia), who were in a precarious situation due to the cycle of indebtment and environmental degradation that the

Tobacco memories 2020 30'

Student Directed by Manca Filak .

The villages in southwest Bulgaria have long been known for the cultivation and production of tobacco. Muslim Pomaks, still engaged in this work, are facing a decline due to the low purchase price of

The Train Driver 2021 6'

Animation Directed by Christian Wittmoser Zuniel Kim .

Trigger warning: suicide and related trauma In the five-minute animated documentary film The Train Driver, an anonymous train driver recounts his experience with suicide on the rails. Six times he

A Two Day Fair 2009 60'

Directed by Anjali Monteiro KP Jayasankar .

Nothing in the world will last – it is but a two day fair” sings Mura Lala, drawing inspiration from the Sufi traditions of Sant Kabir and Abdul Lateef Bhitai. He is accompanied on the double

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

Two Poets and a River 2021 76'

Ethnomusicology Directed by Richard K. Wolf .

Using the Oxus river as a topos, this film explores themes of love and loss through the lives and musical poetry of the two most prominent and innovative Wakhi musicians in Central and South Asia:

Unearthed 2021 16'

Shorts Directed by Colin Rosemont .

The film examines the intersections of history, spirituality, colonialism, and contemporary archaeology through the experiences of archaeologists and Native Californians brought together by an excavation.

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

A Village with a View 2022 20'

Shorts Directed by Joseph Inman .

In wartime Britain, a Lord permitted unused land on Cornwall’s Rame Peninsula to be built on. Tiny chalets appeared, each as individual as its owner, and the community of Freathy came to life. In

The Visual Scholarship Initiative '

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

Voices of Kula 2021 87'

Werbner Award Directed by Gina Knapp .

Voices of Kula tells a story of empowerment, of local responses to cultural and economic changes, and of the strive to revitalise cultural heritage. A group of elders from Milne Bay, Papua New Guinea

Waban-Aki: People from Where the Sun Rises 2006 104'

Lifetime Achievement Award - Alanis Obomsawin Directed by Alanis Obomsawin .

The filmmaker returns to the village where she was raised to craft a lyrical account of her own people. After decades of tirelessly recording others’ stories, she focuses this film on her own home

Walking is Medicine 2018 5'

Lifetime Achievement Award - Alanis Obomsawin Directed by Alanis Obomsawin .

This is the story of the Nishiyuu walkers, six young Cree men who decided to trek 1600km from Whapmagoostui, Quebec, to Ottawa, in the spirit of their ancestors, whose traditions were to travel long

The Water Goddess and the Computer 1988 58'

Lifetime Achievement Directed by J. Stephen Lansing Andre Singer .

The Water Holds Me / The Water Binds Us 2021 2'

Animation Directed by Lily Mae Kroes .

Based on the stories of women who dip, dive and swim in rivers, lakes and seas, this animated film evokes many different experiences in one swim, from the anticipation of getting in cold water to the

A Wedding 2021 15'

Shorts Directed by Emiko Stock .

At a Cham Muslim wedding in rural Cambodia, an ethnographer doubles as a wedding videographer, capturing a day-long event in constant movement. Through unstable camera movements never completely

What about China? 2022 135'

President's Award - Trinh T. Minh-ha Directed by Trinh T. Minh-ha .

Influential filmmaker, writer, composer Trinh T. Minh-ha’s latest film takes the notion of harmony in China as a site of creative manifestation. Highly valued as a virtue and a guiding criterion in

When the Sea Sends Forth a Forest 2020 21'

Shorts Directed by Guangli LIU .

The story revolves around the memory of a Chinese survivor of the Khmer Rouge. This tragedy, which took the lives of two million people, continues to reshape our present. This forgotten moment of

Where Things go 2022 75'

Werbner Award Directed by Baptiste Aubert .

In the small Belgian town of Verviers in the mid-60s, most of the textile factories that had contributed to the town’s prosperity closed down. On witnessing the end of an epoch, the town council

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

Yarang Mamin 2019 21'

Arandu - Listen to the Weather Directed by Kamatxi Ikpeng .

Indigenous filmmaker Kamatxi Ikpeng documents the story of a group of Ikpeng women who formed a movement to collect forest seeds and restore the banks of the Xingu River. The Yarang Women’s

You can't show my face 2021 20'

Shorts Directed by Knutte Wester .

The sound of the streets of Tehran are transformed into forbidden beats, people sing and young women and men rhyme their inner feelings. They tell us about a society that rejects them, streets

The initiation of the young Xavante 1999 56'

Arandu - Listen to the Weather Directed by Divino Tserewahú .

Documentary about the initiation of young Xavante men, held during the training workshops of the Video in the Villages project. At the invitation of director Divino Tserewahú, from the village

The season 2020 63'

Directed by Anna Grimshaw .

This is part 4 of a 7-part series. Lobsters slowly migrate north, moving into the Machias Bay from warmer, southern waters. George works quickly to finish setting his full quota of traps.

Hunting/Gathering/Fishing Trade

The world like a jewel in the hand: unlearning imperial plunder ii 2022 58'

Focus on: Ariella Aïsha Azoulay Directed by Ariella Aïsha Azoulay .

This film travels over open books, looted objects and postcards to look for the imperial foundations of the world in which we live. Within this wide landscape the film focuses on the destruction of