Film list

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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;
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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