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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

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,

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

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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

Engaging Media Worlds [NYU] '

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Engaging/Empowering Image-Voices '

Conference
Convened by Raminder Kaur Mariagiulia Grassilli .

How can anthropologists and filmmakers engage with and empower marginalised individuals and communities? Since the 1950s, ethnographic filmmakers and theorists have advocated for participatory

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.

Ethnographic Film and Mental Health: Transformations and Impact '

Workshop
Convened by Mike Poltorak .

This interactive workshop explores the challenges and possibilities that emerge when visual anthropologists engage with ideas and experiences associated with mental health – and, in particular,

Ethnographic Film in the Marketplace '

Forum
Convened by André Singer .

This Forum will consider the distribution of films of an anthropological nature to broad general and international audiences as well as within the academic sphere. Chaired by André Singer, President

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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

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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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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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