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Film list
#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
Animation
2023
60
'
Special Programmes
Animation
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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
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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.
Arandu - Listen to the Weather
2023
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Special Programmes
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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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Special Programmes
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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
Belle River
2022
11
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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
Bill Reid Remembers
2021
24
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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
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.
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
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
Cycles
2022
9
'
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
'
Special Programmes
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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
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
'
Special Programmes
.
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
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.
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
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
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 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
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
'
Special Programmes
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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
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
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
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
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
Nkabom: A little medicine A little prayer
2021
79
'
Werbner Award
Directed by
Erminia Colucci
.
A mother is caring for her son at a healing shrine on the edge of a village in the central belt of Ghana. In another village, a father has taken his son to several Christian and traditional healers
West Africa
Health / Health care / Healing
Religion / Belief / Faith
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
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
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
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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
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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.
Parizad
2021
24
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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
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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
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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,
Rebel Objects
2020
70
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Main Competition
Directed by
Carolina Arias Ortiz
.
Anthropologist and filmmaker Carolina Arias Ortiz returns to Costa Rica to visit her estranged father. When he is diagnosed with pancreatic cancer, death suddenly draws close. During this time she
Latin America
Archaeology
Death
Personal Narrative
Sarah Pink
2023
90
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Special Programmes
.
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
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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
Sing My Sister
2022
85
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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
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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
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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
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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
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
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
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.
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
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 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
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 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