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Status
"A"
x
Series
"0"
x
films with a digital version
161
films with a Kanopy version
12
short films
284
films available on demand
40
Section
RAI FILM FESTIVAL 2017
53
RAI FILM FESTIVAL 2017 Film Library
70
RAI FILM FESTIVAL 2019
81
RAI FILM FESTIVAL 2019 Film Library
55
RAI FILM FESTIVAL 2021
102
RAI FILM FESTIVAL 2023
94
Sales
290
not set
1
Status
films with no status
0
show deleted films
0
show none-public films
0
show public and none-public films
700
show public films
700
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Title initial
A
38
B
37
C
46
D
33
E
22
F
28
G
25
H
19
I
22
J
9
K
23
L
28
M
31
N
21
O
20
P
78
Q
2
R
24
S
66
T
52
U
13
V
13
W
39
Y
9
Z
2
Region
Australia
19
British-Irish Isles
14
Caribbean Islands
2
Central Africa
2
Central America
7
Central Asia and Far East
14
Central Europe
2
East Africa
11
Eastern Europe and Baltic States
1
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1
Latin America
2
London
1
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13
Micronesia
1
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17
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1
North America
14
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7
Scandinavia
2
South America
26
South Asia
46
South-East Asia
18
South-East Europe
10
Southern Africa
6
Various
1
West Africa
24
Western Europe
18
Western Mediterranean
9
not set
425
Country
Afghanistan
8
Angola
1
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1
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1
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19
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3
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4
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3
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1
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1
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2
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9
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1
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2
Cameroon
5
Canada
2
Chile
1
China
5
Colombia
4
Costa Rica
1
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1
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1
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1
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2
Ethiopia
3
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1
France
4
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1
Germany
2
Ghana
5
Greece
2
Greenland
1
Guyana
1
Hungary
1
India
36
Indonesia
10
Iran
2
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1
Israel
1
Italy
13
Ivory Coast
2
Jamaica
1
Japan
10
Jordan
1
Kenya
4
Madagascar
1
Mali
1
Mexico
7
Morocco
1
Myanmar
1
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2
Netherlands
1
Nigeria
8
Norway
1
Pakistan
3
Palestine
1
Papua New Guinea
10
Paraguay
1
Peru
2
Philippines
2
Portugal
1
Romania
2
Russia
1
Russian Federation
2
Samoa
2
Senegal
2
Solomon Islands
1
South Africa
3
Spain
2
Sudan
2
Sweden
1
Switzerland
2
Syria
3
Tanzania
1
The Netherlands
1
Tibet
1
Togo
2
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1
Uganda
4
United Kingdom
17
United States
11
Vanuatu
1
Various
1
Venezuela
3
Vietnam
1
Virtual Space
1
Yemen
2
not set
427
Keywords
Agriculture / Farming
2
Alternative culture
3
Animals
7
Animation
3
Archaeobotany / Ethnobotany
4
Archaeology
6
Archival material / Museum displays
9
Archival materials / Museum displays
1
Art / Artists / Artisans
25
Children / Young people
30
Collective / Community identity
21
Colonialism / Postcolonialism
8
Dance / Theatre / Performance
20
Death
9
Development projects
13
Disasters
3
Education / Knowledge Transmission
14
Education / Knowledge transmission
8
Elderly people
6
Environment
10
Essay film
3
Ethnofiction
5
Everyday Life
12
Family / Kinship
21
Festivals / Carnival
8
Film / Photography / Mass media
21
Folklore
1
Food
1
Food / Water
2
Forensic
1
Gender Role and Identity
47
Gender Role and identity
1
Health / Health care / Healing
23
Health / Healthcare / Healing
1
Herding
6
History
6
History of Anthropology
10
Hunting / Gathering / Fishing
6
Indigenous Filmmaking
2
Indigenous peoples / First Nations peoples
33
Informant-researcher relationship
11
Infrastructure / Transport
10
Infrastructure\transport
1
Inter-religious relations
4
Intergenerational relations
7
Internet
2
LGBTQI*
6
Labour
20
Land Rights
9
Land rights
1
Law and Legislation / Bureaucracy
13
Life Story / Life History
7
Linguistics / Language
4
Love
7
Marriage
13
Material Culture
20
Memory
14
Migration
22
Music / Ethnomusicology
28
Myths / Fairy tales
2
Nomads and Nomadism
5
Participatory / Collaborative methods
6
Personal Narrative
5
Political Activists
13
Popular Culture
3
Possession
9
Post-communism
3
Prison
2
Public Figure
5
Race / Racism / Antiracism
7
Reflexivity
11
Refugees / Displaced populations
11
Religion / Belief / Faith
36
Reproduction (biology)
3
Research methods
1
Resettlement
4
Resistance
4
Ritual
35
Rural
14
Science / Technology
1
Sex / Sexuality
12
Shamans and Shamanism
4
Social Change
17
Social Conflict
10
Social Norms
3
Social Organisation
2
Social participation
2
Socioeconomic conditions
14
Sport
4
Squatter Settlements / Homelessness
6
Tourism / Travel / Pilgrimage
9
Trade
7
Travellers / Roma
1
Urban
12
War / Conflict / Reconciliation
10
not set
424
Directors
(Chhara), Dakxinkumar Bajrange
1
Aaltonen, Jouko
1
Abatemarco, Gina
1
Abraham, Shirley
1
Adair, Chisako Yokoyama
1
Afreen, Sara
1
Agatha, Diane
1
Ahmad Simon, Kamar
1
Ahmed, Akbar
1
Aiano, Eluned Zoe
1
Akafou, Joël
1
Akin, Dorcas
1
Al Akash, Ruba
1
Al Hafez, Maisa
1
Al-Khaled, Bassam
1
Al-Khatib, Abdallah
1
Ali, Abdel Malek Al
1
Alvarez, Juan Sebastián
1
Alvarez, Patricia
1
Anthropological Institute, Royal
1
Applewhaite, Che
1
Arcilla, Roel
1
Arcé, Adrian
1
Arif-Bashir, Abeera
1
Asadi Faezi, Daniel
1
Asch, Timothy
1
Assunção, Matthias Röhrig
1
Aston, Judith
1
Athias, Renato
2
Atieno, Lavine
1
Aubert, Baptiste
1
August, Ramona
1
Awad, Saja
1
Awino, Effie
1
Awoyinka, Siji
1
Aydin, Yunus Emre
1
Ayisi, Florence
1
Azoulay, Ariella Aïsha
1
BBC / Swan Films, RAI /
1
Badescu, Ramona
1
Bahule, Andre
1
Bahule, André
1
Baily, John
11
Bakar Sidibé, Abou
1
Balikci, Anna
2
Balikci, Asen
2
Balikci-Denjongpa, Anna
1
Ballester, Julian
1
Banks, Marcus
1
Barbash, Ilisa
1
Barber, Maddi
1
Barber, Rachel Schaetzel
1
Baril Gaudet, Sarah
1
Barone, Enrico
1
Barreiro, Georgina
1
Barrett, Meg
1
Basu, Helene
1
Basu, Prantik
1
Beier, Ulli
1
Bell, Hatty
1
Bell, Otto
1
Bennett, Jami L.
1
Bensadon, Sofia
1
Berman, Alexandre
1
Bhagat, Simit
1
Bhattachary, Nilanjan
1
Biella, Peter
1
Blachnicka-Ciacek, Dominika
1
Bloching, Max
1
Bona, Stefania
1
Bonfim, Vanuzia
1
Bonifacio, Valentina
2
Boonzajer-Flaes, Robert
2
Borecký, Pavel
1
Boswall, Karen
3
Boudreault-Fournier, Alexandrine
2
Boyce, Paul
1
Bradbury, Ray
1
Bragard, Magali
1
Brass, Anna
1
Braz, Caamini
1
Brewer, Teri
2
Brewer, Teri F.
1
Brečević, Geska Helena
1
Brečević, Robert
1
Bringa, Tone
1
Bringas, Sylvie
1
Bromhead, Toni de
1
Brossmann, Jakob
1
Brown, David
1
Brylla, Catalin
1
Bunescu, Dana
1
Burcak, Lidija
1
Bureau, Martin
1
Burstin, Costanza
1
Buthpitiya, Vindhya
3
Cabezas Pino, Angélica
3
Cai, Hua
2
Cameron, Al
1
Campus, Greca
1
Canals, Roger
1
Canguçu, Carolina
1
Cao, Umberto
1
Carelli, Vincent
1
Carlyle, Angus
1
Carpenter, Sue
1
Carrillo Sánchez, María Fernanda
1
Cartelli, Philip
2
Carvalho, Ernesto de
1
Carver, Gavin
1
Chabamier, Gabriel
1
Chabanier, Gabriel
1
Chambers, Simon
1
Chavah, Arjun
1
Chong, Zhang
1
Colson, Laurie
1
Colucci, Erminia
3
Cooper, Timothy
3
Costa, Vince
1
Couto, João Carlos
1
Cox, Rupert
1
Cremers, Dr. Lianne (A.L.)
1
Croall, Heather
1
Cubero, Carlo
1
Cubides-Brady, Natalie
1
Curtis, Edward S.
1
D'onofrio, Alexandra
1
Dabo, Ansomane
1
Dahr, Julia
1
Dam Bracia, Lillian
1
Dandriyal, Nirmal Chander
1
Dattatreyan, Ethiraj Gabriel
1
Davidson, John Paul
1
Davies, Sera
1
Day, Mike
1
De Groof, Matthias
2
Deger, Jennifer
1
Delgado San Ginés, David
1
Demiralay, Hakan
1
Dettmann, Christine
1
Devaraj, Rebecca
1
Deveson, Philippa
1
Dewey, Myron
1
Dhanraj, Deepa
1
Diamanti, Eleonora
1
Diamantis, Constantinos
1
Diaz, Juan Diego
1
Dienderen, An van
1
Diengdoh, Wanphrang
1
Dietrich, Martha-Cecilia
2
Domenig, Aya
1
Dong, Xiuzhi
1
Dontchev, Antonii
1
Doren, Oinam
1
Dost, Jainendra
1
Dreiss, Meredith
1
Drion, Georges
1
Dukmak, Abd Alrahman
1
Dumont, Dirk
1
Dunlop, Ian
1
Dunne, Bryony
1
Eaton, Michael
1
Edenshaw, Gwaai
1
Edkins, Teboho
1
Elias, Meni
1
Elixhauser, Sophie
1
Engelbrecht, Beate
1
Enjolras, Séverine
1
Entell, Peter
1
Erickson, LeAnn
1
Esteva, Jordi
3
FILM FESTIVAL, RAI
1
Fairbanks, Charles
1
Fales, Ludovica
1
Farooqui, Samreen
1
Farouky, Saeed Taji
1
Favero, Paolo
1
Faye, Safi
2
Fedda, Yasmin
1
Fedde, R.A.
1
Feld, Steven
1
Fernández Mouján, Alejandro
1
Fernández, Luciano Pérez
1
Ferrarese, Adriana
1
Ferrarini, Lorenzo
1
Ferreira, Daniele
1
Ferreira, Patricia
1
Ferreira, Patrícia
1
Ferrini, Alessandra
1
Figueroa, David
1
Figueroa, Jose
1
Fijn, Natasha
1
Filak, Manca
1
Film Festival, RAI
1
Fleifel, Mahdi
1
Flores, Carlos
2
Foglio, Omar
1
Folegatti, Luiza
1
Folly, Anne Laure
1
Fossgard-Moser, Titus
1
Fournier, Guillaume
1
Fox, Jason
1
Fox, Josh
1
Franco, Carlos Tobon
1
Francois, Alexandre
1
Frankenstein, Ellen
1
Fruzzetti, Lina
2
Fumanti, Mattia
2
Gama, Antonia
1
Garland, Christy
1
Gazidis, Dorothea
1
Geißler, Wenzel
1
Giles, Sue
1
Gill, Harjant
1
Girmus, Dan
1
Glass, Aaron
1
Goddinho, Leandro
3
Golovnev, Ivan
1
Gomes, Márcio
1
Grabowska, Malwa
1
Graham, Trevor
2
Grassilli, Mariagiulia
1
Greenhalgh, Cathy
1
Grieco, Anthony
1
Grimshaw, Anna
2
Grootheest, Sjoerd van
1
Grossenbacher, Ulrich
1
Grossman, Alan
1
Grossman, Alyssa
1
Gruber, Martin
2
Grunvald, Vitor
1
Grégoire, Charlotte
1
Gubner, Jennie
1
Guetsa, Alzira
1
Gul, Seemab
1
Gulati, Shilpi
1
Gumnit, Ruth
1
Gunderson, Frank
1
Gupta, Meghna
1
Guzman, Elena
1
Guzzetti, Alfred
1
Gómez Ruíz, Sebastián
1
HERROU, Adeline
1
Habibi, Elaheh
1
Haddad, Abeer Zeibak
1
Haensch, Valerie
1
Hahonou, Eric Komlavi
1
Haig-Brown, Helen
1
Hajee, Amin
1
Hallak, Shawki Al
1
Hantson, Louise
1
Harper, Peggy
2
Hassanwalia, Shabani
1
Hawkins, Richard
1
Hawkins, Russel
1
Hazineh, Nisreen
1
Heald, Suzette
1
Hellwig, Jean
1
Henley, Paul
7
Hennies, Jan-Holger
1
Henry, Rosita
1
Hesmondhalgh, Jacob
1
Heusch, Luc de
1
Hick, Alexander
1
Hikiji, Rose Satiko
1
Hillman, Rosie Reed
1
Hinckley, Priscilla
1
Hobson, Marie-Josephine
1
Hollerup Christensen, Louise
1
Holtedahl, Lisbet
2
Hopkins, Ben
1
Horat, Thomas
1
Horn, Roger
1
Horton, Robin
1
Hoskins, Charlotte
1
Huang, Enke
1
Huffschmid, Anne
1
Hughes-Freeland, Felicia
2
Huguet, Benjamin
1
Hunt, Claire
1
Hunt, Clare
1
Hushing, Richa
1
Husmann, Rolf
3
Huyer, Bruno
1
Hörmann, André
1
Høgel, Arine Kirstein
1
Igwe, Onyeka
1
Ikpeng, Kamatxi
1
Ikpeng, Karané
1
Ikpeng, Kumaré
1
Indjai, Braima
1
Inman, Joseph
1
Irwin, Jessamine
1
Iteanu, Andre
1
Jan Gollob, Tino Glimmann
1
Jaoul, Nicolas
2
Jaquerod, Muriel
1
Jayasankar, KP
2
Jeppesen, Kira de Hemmer
1
Jerstad, Jon
1
Jigüe, DJ
1
Jirmanus, Mary
1
Johnson, Dul
1
Johnston, Ned
1
Jourdain, Olivier
1
Journet, Martine
2
Kamerling, Leonard
1
Kapon, Eytan
1
Karimi, Keywan
1
Kashyap, Kumar
1
Katz, Maude
1
Kauli, Jackie
1
Kaur, Raminder
2
Kawanami, Hiroko
1
Kawase, Itsushi
1
Kaymak, Vedide
1
Ke, Guo
1
Kenyon, Sam
1
Kerlogue, Fiona
1
Kezich, Giovanni
1
Khaitan, Abhyuday
1
Khan, Arshad
1
Khan, Samar Minallah
1
Kharel, Dipesh
3
Kildea, Gary
3
Kim, Zuniel
1
Kisedje, Kamikia P.T.
1
Klaue, Léa
1
Knapp, Gina
1
Knorpp, Barbara
1
Kofti, Dimitra
1
Kongshao, Zhuang
1
Kordonets, Lesia
1
Koto, Erik
1
Kremer, Flavia
2
Kroes, Lily Mae
1
Kuen, Laura
1
Kuentz, Gaspard
1
Kuka, Hajooj
1
Kumar, Shikha
1
Kunuk, Zacharias
1
Kurutuac, Judith
1
Kuzhur, Renjith
1
Kühlbrandt, Charlotte
1
LIU, Guangli
1
LaPin, Deirdre
1
Lacerda, Rodrigo
1
Lai, Miasarah
1
Lakhera, Srishti
1
Lambert, Roseline
1
Lancker, Laurent Van
1
Landseer, Kimona
1
Lane, Bruce Pacho
1
Langer, Vanessa
1
Lansing, J. Stephen
1
Lansing, Steven
1
Lapper, Ellen
1
Lau, Lasse
1
Lawrence, Andy
1
Le Dauphin, Axelle
1
Leach, Jerry
1
Lemelson, Robert
1
Lepcha, Dawa
1
Lepcha, Dawa T
1
Levie, Francoise
1
Lewis, Ariane
1
Li, He Zi Jian
1
Li, Wenfei
1
Lindner, Tobias
1
Liu, Xiangchen
1
Lloyd, Ravi Hart
1
Loizos, Peter
3
Long, Zheng
1
Longinotto, Kim
17
Lopez, Lucia Barrenetxea
1
Loïzos, Peter
1
Lu, Wanwan
1
Luethi, Damaris
1
Lunch, Nick
1
Lutkehaus, Nancy
1
Luz, Ana Luísa
1
Lydall, Jean
1
MAKEPEACE, ANNE
1
Ma, Chi-hang
1
MacClancy, Jeremy
1
MacDougall, David
22
MacDougall, Judith
13
Madheshiya, Amit
1
Mafundikwa, Karen Marks
1
Magnússon, Jón Bjarki
2
Magoko, Beryl
1
Mai, Nick
2
Maingard, Jacqueline
1
Malara, Diego Maria
1
Maleney, Clair
1
Mansu, Marcia
1
Marchand, Trevor H. J.
2
Marinho de Sousa, Liliana
1
Marrero-Guillamon, Isaac
1
Marrero-Guillamón, Isaac
1
Marsh, Sophie
1
Matteau, Samuel
1
Matz, Maayan L.
1
Maulana, Rizky
1
Maxakali, Isael
1
Maxakali, Sueli
1
Mbakam, Rosine
1
McCrum, Rachel
1
McKenzie, Kim
1
McLarnon, Kate
1
McManus, Luke
1
McNamara, Robert
1
Mendel, Paulo
1
Mervin, Sabrina
1
Mestroni, Simone
1
Metz, Janus
1
Meyknecht, Steef
1
Mills-Affif, Edouard
1
Milner, George
1
Minh-ha, Trinh T.
1
Mir-Hosseini, Ziba
1
Mirabella, Rita
1
Mitjáns, Fernando
1
Mitman, Gregg
1
Moffat, Zemirah
1
Mohammadi, Yasin
1
Mollona, Massimiliano
1
Monahan, Trent
1
Monteiro, Anjali
2
Moore, Allen
1
Mora, Alba
1
Mora, Yves
1
Morelli, Camilla
3
Moriarty, Erin
1
Moura Fagundes, Guilherme
1
Mukhopadhayay, Kanchan
1
Munro, Neil G.
1
Mura, Andrea
1
Muratsu, Ran
1
Murray, Christopher
1
Myers-Haugh, Kyle
1
Myhre, Knut Chr. Myhre
1
Møhl, Perle
1
Naidin, Julia
1
Nayak, Saranya
1
Nayar, Anjali
1
Nayyar, Rajat
1
Ndinya, June
1
Ndisi-Herrmann, Philippa
1
Ndjom, Joseph Dégramon
1
Neal, Sky
1
Newman, David
1
Nguyen, M. Trinh
1
Nielsen, Christian Suhr
1
Niglas, Liivo
2
Njoki, Ruth
1
Nolin, Yannick
1
Norris, Craig
1
Norton, Barley
1
Nougarol, Gérard
2
Nørgaard Munk, Emil
1
Obomsawin, Alanis
10
Oliveras de Ita, Daniel
1
Opipari, Carmen
1
Orderson, Kurt
1
Orr Urtreger, Gil
1
Ortega, Ariel
1
Ortega, Ariel Duarte
2
Ortiz, Carolina Arias
1
Otto, Ton
2
Owen, Chris
2
Owles, Ed
3
O’Brien, Áine
1
P. A. Cooper, Timothy
2
Pakaslahti, Antti
1
Pakleppa, Richard
1
Panay, Simon
1
Panizza, Tiziana
1
Papenbrook, Jana
1
Parietti, Caroline
1
Peiu, Toma
2
Pereira, Nilton
1
Perovic, Vladimir
1
Pestarino, Julieta
1
Petré, Robin
1
Piasta, Piotr
1
Picard, David
1
Piccini, Angela
2
Pilvet, Kristiina
1
Piria, Elisa
1
Piyãko, Wewito
1
Plambech, Sine
1
Plessis, Nancy du
1
Plouffe, Simon
1
Pollack, Claire
1
Pollet, Olivier
1
Poltorak, Mike
3
Pomerance, Erica
1
Ponson, Cyprien
1
Ponte, Ines
1
Powell, Harry
1
Prince, Raymond
1
Prince, Ruth
1
Prins, Janine
3
Prothero, Sarah
1
Quintanilla, Daniel
1
Radhakrishnan, Shweta
1
Rappoport, Dana
1
Rashid, Azra
1
Rees, Lowri
1
Rijckaert, Jorn
1
Robert Morales, Matteo
1
Robinson, Paul
1
Rodriguez, Paola
1
Romero, Carlos Maria
1
Romero, Roberto
1
Rosell, Ulises
1
Rosemont, Colin
1
Rosenlund Byriel, Maja
1
Ross, Nina
1
Rowlinson, Carl
1
Roy, Rahul
3
Roy, Sumira
1
Saghari, Niyaz
1
Saito, Asami
1
Saltalippi, Matteo
1
Saltman, Carlyn
2
Sandall, Roger
1
Sanmartí, Anna
1
Sarabi, Abtin
1
Saraiva Pereira, Eduardo
1
Saraiva, Chico
1
Sariyildiz, Özlem
1
Sarmiento, Alvaro
1
Sarmiento, Diego
1
Sartori, Caterina
2
Satija, Dhruv
1
Sautchuk, Carlos
1
Scalisi, Francesca
1
Schillaci, Rosella
1
Schillaci, Rossella
2
Schiltz, Anne
1
Schlenker, Juana
1
Seaman, Gary
2
Seidel, Frank
1
Seitz, Anni
1
Sen, Priya
1
Shahmiri, Mehdi Imani
1
Shakerifar, Elhum
1
Shalygin, Cliff Orloff and Olga
1
Sharim, Yehuda
1
Sharma, Aparna
2
Sharma, Shubham
1
Sheikh, Anas Al
1
Shivhare, Ravi
1
Shrish, Asmita
1
Shuffield, Robin
1
Siebert, Moritz
1
Siegel, Sarita
1
Silva, Jeff
1
Simon, Andrea
1
Sincich, Francesco
1
Singer, Andre
1
Singer, André
3
Singh, Anshu
1
Sjøberg, Johannes
1
Smith, Sophia Hersi
1
Snigirev, Yury
1
Sojob, María
1
Solakiewicz, Zuzanna
1
Solomons, Natasha
1
Sonderegger, Ramona
1
Sorensen, Richard
1
Sousa, Joana
1
Sowa, Remigiusz (aka Remi)
1
Speed, Frank
7
Speroni, Marco
1
Sperscheinder, Werner
1
Sperschneider, Werner
1
Spinetti, Federico
1
Spione, James
1
Stasse, Sammy-Lena
1
Stehlikova, Tereza
1
Stewart, Michael
1
Stock, Emiko
1
Storaas, Frode
2
Strasse, Cornelia
1
Straube, Anna
1
Strecker, Kaira
1
Sturtevant, Chuck
1
Su, Hung En
1
Su, Yan Chun
1
Suhr, Christian
1
Svartzman, Boris
1
Syroechkovskaya, Marusya
1
Sørensen, Tanja Wol
1
Tanlaka, Kilian Lamtur
1
Tari, János
2
Taylor, Jaime
1
Taylor, Jamie
1
Taylor, Lucien
1
Teeter, Wendy
1
Tender, Priit
2
Tesar, Catalina
1
Tibet, Eda Elif
1
Tilche, Alice
1
Timbert, Sylvie
1
Time, Justin
1
Toda, Hikaru
1
Tolange, Deepak
1
Torresan, Angela
2
Torson, Jennifer
1
Tserewahú, Divino
1
Tsering Lepcha, Dawa
1
Tuchtenhagen, Ruth
1
Tumino, Giuseppe
1
Turner, Shannon
1
Txicão, Natuyu Yuwipo
1
Uribe, Simón
1
Vail, Pegi
1
Vakhrushev, Aleksei
1
Varejão, Cláudia
1
Vavrova, Daniela
1
Villafaña Chaparro, Amado
1
Visser, Mara Lin
1
Vohra, Paromita
1
Vávrová, Daniela
1
Waage, Trond
1
Wagner, Estephan
1
Waldstein, Kaela
1
WeOwnTV,
1
Weijs, Robert
1
Wendl, Tobias
1
Werbner, Richard
2
Werner, Louis
1
Wessels, Joshka
1
Wester, Hasse
1
Wester, Knutte
1
Westmoreland, Mark
1
Whitby-Coles, Charlotte
1
Wickwire, Maren
1
Wildenauer, Nora
1
Wilkinson, Marko Ray
1
Williams, Jano
3
Wittersheim, Eric
1
Wittmoser, Christian
1
Wolf, Richard K.
1
Wright, Chris
1
Wright, Evie
1
Wu, Qiao
1
Wu, Qihui
1
Wunungmurra, Paul
1
Wyatt, Olivia
1
Yaméogo, Eléonore
1
Yan, Yihao
1
Yildirim, S. Buse
1
Yin, Luojunnan
1
Yorke, Michael
1
Yube, Zezinho
1
Yuchuan, Jia
1
Zaki, Iris
1
Zauad, Zaino
1
Zhang, MengHua
1
Zirion, Antonio
2
Zirión, Antonio
1
Ziwei, Meng
1
Zurné, Lise
1
de Bromhead, Toni
3
not set
77
van Lanker, Laurent
1
van de Port, Mattijs
5
Ángel, Laura
1
Östör, Ákos
2
Șalaru, Maria
1
𝗟𝗹𝗮𝗰𝗲𝗿, Ana
1
Series
not set
700
x
Country of production
Algeria
1
Angola
1
Argentina
6
Australia
39
Austria
1
Bangladesh
1
Belgium
15
Bolivia
1
Brazil
25
Bulgaria
1
Burkina Faso
1
Cambodia
1
Cameroon
2
Canada
26
Chile
3
China
16
Colombia
8
Costa Rica
2
Cuba
2
Czech Republic
1
Côte d'Ivoire
1
Denmark
11
Egypt
1
Estonia
5
Ethiopia
1
Finland
3
France
28
Germany
30
Ghana
1
Guinea-Bissau
2
Hong Kong
1
Hungary
3
Iceland
2
India
42
Indonesia
3
Iran
5
Ireland
2
Islamic Republic of
2
Israel
2
Italy
21
Jamaica
1
Japan
7
Jordan
1
Kenya
4
Kosovo
1
Lebanon
4
Mali
1
Mexico
9
Mongolia
2
Montenegro
1
Mozambique
2
Nepal
4
Netherlands
15
Niger
1
Nigeria
9
Norway
10
Pakistan
4
Papua New Guinea
3
Paraguay
1
Peru
4
Philippines
1
Poland
3
Portugal
5
Romania
3
Russia
1
Senegal
4
Serbia
1
Sierra Leone
1
Slovenia
2
South Africa
3
Spain
7
Sudan
1
Sweden
5
Switzerland
15
Taiwan
1
Tanzania
3
Thailand
1
Turkey
2
USA
1
Uganda
1
United Kingdom
142
United States
69
not set
139
Year of production
not set
118
1931
1
1952
1
1963
2
1964
1
1966
1
1969
1
1970
2
1971
1
1972
2
1973
1
1974
3
1975
2
1976
1
1977
2
1978
2
1979
2
1980
4
1981
1
1982
1
1983
5
1984
4
1985
2
1986
4
1987
4
1988
8
1989
7
1990
3
1991
3
1992
1
1993
5
1994
2
1995
1
1996
4
1997
6
1998
4
1999
4
2000
6
2001
11
2002
5
2003
5
2004
3
2005
9
2006
9
2007
10
2008
11
2009
9
2010
7
2011
8
2012
13
2013
11
2014
11
2015
57
2016
69
2017
56
2018
61
2019
19
2020
20
2021
31
2022
35
2023
8
Film Festival Year
not set
215
0
1
2009
1
2013
1
2015
10
2017
138
2019
138
2021
102
2023
94
Event type
Conference
61
Forum
3
Gala event
7
Masterclass
3
Seminar
2
Shorts Programme
14
Special Programmes
8
Talks
13
Workshop
14
not set
575
Festival Prize Category
not set
187
Animation
6
Arandu - Listen to the Weather
10
Decolonising the Archive
2
Disability Futures
2
Ethnomusicology
8
Focus on: Ariella Aïsha Azoulay
1
Global Racialisations
2
Intangible Culture
11
Lifetime Achievement
2
Lifetime Achievement Award - Alanis Obomsawin
10
Main Competition
23
Material Culture
8
Music Docs
5
President's Award - Trinh T. Minh-ha
1
RAI Basil Wright
32
Shorts
42
Special Interest
20
Student
41
Werbner Award
17
not set
270
Review Status
Accepted
145
Film library
129
not set
426
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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,
18 Feet
2015
77
'
Directed by
Renjith Kuzhur
.
Karinthalakoottam is an indigenous band that propagates the music of soul to connect people with a sense of historic resolution. 18 feet symbolizes the holy distance dalits, the downtrodden, were to
The 18-Year-Old Assembly Line
2016
30
'
Directed by
Luojunnan Yin
.
We happened to make friends with this group of factory workers in the "post-90s" generation while we were working on another projects. We were quite fascinated by many things that we
37 Uses for a Dead Sheep
2006
85
'
Directed by
Ben Hopkins
.
The Pamir Kirghiz are a tribe of some 2,000 people from the Pamir region of Central Asia. For the last 27 years they have lived in exile in Eastern Turkey. In 2005 an Anglo-Turkish film crew arrives
Middle and Near East
Film / Photography / Mass media
Animals
Migration
ABU
2017
80
'
RAI Basil Wright
Directed by
Arshad Khan
.
Arshad always knew he was different. Soon after emigrating from Pakistan to Canada with his family, Arshad realized he was gay. With Abu, Arshad tells his own story self discovery at a cultural
AWAKE, A Dream from Standing Rock
2017
89
'
RAI Basil Wright
Directed by
Josh Fox
James Spione
Myron Dewey
.
The native-led resistance to the construction of a pipeline across the Standing Rock Sioux Reservation, North Dakota, captured the world’s attention. Awake tells the story of the defiant Water
About Love on a Small Island
2018
26
'
Directed by
Elaheh Habibi
.
The film About Love on a Small Island is a participatory and reflexive ethnographic film exploring the meaning of love among a Sunni Muslim community in an Iranian village on Qeshm Island. Following
The Absence of Apricots
2018
49
'
Student
Directed by
Daniel Asadi Faezi
.
In the Hunza Valley in the northern Pakistan there is a magnificent turquoise lake. But the lake hasn’t been always there: it is the result of a massive landslide that blocked a river, causing
South Asia
Environment
Memory
Development projects
Resettlement
Across the Border: Afghan Musicians exiled in Peshawar
2008
54
'
Directed by
John Baily
.
It is the year 2000 and most of Afghanistan is under the control of the Taliban. Hearing that many of Afghanistain’s musicians are now in exile across the border in Pakistan, ethnomusicologist John
South Asia
Refugees / Displaced populations
Music / Ethnomusicology
Religion / Belief / Faith
Adhiambo - Born in the Evening
2001
66
'
Directed by
Ruth Prince
Wenzel Geißler
Ruth Tuchtenhagen
.
‘Adhiambo’ means ‘the one born in the evening’ in the language of the Luo of western Kenya. The film follows NyaSeme, a married mother and grandmother in her late 30s, during the last month
East Africa
Children / Young people
Health / Health care / Healing
Aeroplane Dance
1994
58
'
Directed by
Trevor Graham
.
December 1942: US bomber ‘Little Eva’ was returning to base after a bombing raid over New Guinea. It hit a storm and crashed at Moonlight Creek in Australia’s far north. Aeroplane Dance
Australia
Indigenous peoples / First Nations peoples
War / Conflict / Reconciliation
Memory
After Prayers
2018
61
'
Directed by
Simone Mestroni
.
The story of Kashmir's conflict narrated through various life stories.
After the Silence
2018
28
'
Material Culture
Directed by
Natalie Cubides-Brady
.
An affecting portrait of a small town on the Magdalena River in Colombia during Day of the Dead, exploring the spiritual impact of the forced disappearances that became endemic during the nation’s
Agave is Life
2014
59
'
Directed by
Meredith Dreiss
David Brown
.
Agave is Life is a documentary film about mankind’s 10,000 year-long symbiotic alliance with the marvelous agave plant, from which tequila, Mexico’s iconic distilled spirit, is derived. The
Central America
Archaeobotany / Ethnobotany
Food
History
The Ainu Bear Ceremony
1931
27
'
Directed by
Neil G. Munro
.
The RAI has reedited the original film of this ceremony among the Ainu people of Japan. In the bear ceremony, now no longer performed, a specially reared bear was reverently killed and its flesh and
Central Asia and Far East
Ritual
Animals
Indigenous peoples / First Nations peoples
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
Ama-san
2016
113
'
RAI Basil Wright
Directed by
Cláudia Varejão
.
A dive, the noon sunlight cuts through the water. The air in both lungs will have to be enough to rip the abalone from the rocks at the bottom of the Pacific Ocean. With no aid from air tanks or any
Amazonimations
2018
7
'
Shorts
Directed by
Camilla Morelli
Sophie Marsh
.
A compilation of three animated films written, voiced and illustrated by the Matses people of the Amazon rainforest, on the Peru-Brazil frontier. Made in collaboration with an indigenous artist, a
Amir - An Afghan Refugee Musician's Life in Peshavar, Pakistan
1985
52
'
Directed by
John Baily
.
The film investigates and portrays the life of Afghan refugees living in and around the city of Peshawar in northern Pakistan through the experiences of the musician Amir. The aspirations of Afghan
South Asia
Music / Ethnomusicology
Refugees / Displaced populations
Andrè Singer in conversation
'
Talks
.
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
'
Talks
.
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
'
Special Programmes
.
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 -
The Archipelago
2015
41
'
RAI Basil Wright
Directed by
Benjamin Huguet
.
The Faroe Islands: a remote group of islands, battered by the ever-changing weather patterns of the North Atlantic. For centuries, the Faroese have lived proudly off the natural resources that
Archival resources and Ethnographic Film
'
Workshop
Convened by
Caterina Sartori
.
This session brings together archivists and professionals who are involved in the preservation, cataloguing and digitisation of archival film and photographic material; and artists and ethnographers
Are You Listening!
2012
90
'
Directed by
Kamar Ahmad Simon
Sara Afreen
.
By the coastal belts of Bangladesh, in a small village named Sutarkhali, Rakhi, 27, lives with her husband Soumen, 32, and their 6 year-old son Rahul. Fighting against all the odds of the woods,
South Asia
Environment
Disasters
Refugees / Displaced populations
Development projects
Ariella Aïsha Azoulay
2023
'
Special Programmes
.
Arnav At Six
2012
28
'
Directed by
David MacDougall
.
Filmed as a collaborative project with Arnav Koshy in 2008, this film explores the mind and activities of an intelligent and observant child of six. Arnav is fascinated by the geology, plant-life,
South Asia
Children / Young people
Education / Knowledge Transmission
The Art Of Moving
2016
88
'
Directed by
Liliana Marinho de Sousa
.
Daya Al-Taseh, a video activist group made up of 4 Syrian friends, are producing anti-ISIS satirical videos in Gaziantep, a city in south-eastern Turkey. Despite being threatened, the group doesn’t
The Art of Andrew Omoding
2016
9
'
Directed by
Trevor H. J. Marchand
.
Andrew Omoding is a Ugandan-British artist. Andrew enters into partnership with his materials, allowing their sensible properties to guide his exploratory gestures and fingerwork. In stitching and
The Art of Regret
2007
60
'
Directed by
Judith MacDougall
.
Photography is known in China as the “Art of Regret”. In the rapidly changing city of Kunming, people are ambivalent about whether they want photography to be a medium of preservation and
South-East Asia
Material Culture
Film / Photography / Mass media
Artists’ Films and Ethnography
'
Workshop
Convened by
Marko Ray Wilkinson
Al Cameron
Barbara Knorpp
.
Practitioners of ethnography and art have crossed paths multiple times in the 20th and 21st centuries - sometimes viewing each other with enthusiasm, sometimes suspicion. This programme consists
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
At Low Tide
2016
63
'
Directed by
Anna Grimshaw
.
Every day, carrying the simplest of tools, diggers across coastal Maine set out at low tide to dig for clams on the wide mud flats that stretch far into the bay. It is backbreaking work. But it has
North America
Material Culture
Labour
Hunting / Gathering / Fishing
Atieno
2018
64
'
Directed by
June Ndinya
Effie Awino
Ruth Njoki
Lavine Atieno
Dorcas Akin
.
Atieno is a collaborative fiction film scripted, acted and directed by DreamGirls, a group of adolescent girls and young women from Nairobi and Kisumu. The film tells of Atieno, a 16 year old girl
East Africa
Health / Healthcare / Healing
Children / Young people
Gender Role and Identity
Ethnofiction
Dance / Theatre / Performance
Participatory / Collaborative methods
Sex / Sexuality
Authors at the Festival & Reception
'
Gala event
Convened by
Paul Henley
.
A number of authors attending the Festival will present their books in the course of a Drinks Reception to which all Festival pass holders are cordially invited. Copies of the books will also be
Awards Ceremony
120
'
Gala event
Convened by
Royal Anthropological Institute
.
Join us to close the 16th RAI Film Festival as we announce the winners of this year's prizes and awards.
Awareness
2011
67
'
Directed by
David MacDougall
Judith MacDougall
.
Filmed in South India, Andhra Pradesh, at Rishi Valley School, founded by the 20th Century Indian thinker Krishnamurti, 'Awareness' explores the sensibilities of two groups of young Indian teenagers,
South Asia
Education / Knowledge transmission
Children / Young people
Ayouni
2020
75
'
Directed by
Yasmin Fedda
.
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
BE' JAM BE the never ending song
2017
85
'
Directed by
Cyprien Ponson
Caroline Parietti
.
In Sarawak (Borneo), “the ones who live upstream” are the first affected by deforestation. The Penan, (ex) nomadic hunters, must figure out how to go on living when one’s entire world is being
BROKEN SKIN
2018
24
'
Directed by
Lidija Burcak
.
An emotionally charged poetic encounter between the filmmaker and other psoriasis sufferers, exploring skin as a metaphor of strength, belief, belonging and alienation.
Ballad for Syria
2017
49
'
Directed by
Eda Elif Tibet
Maisa Al Hafez
.
A musical documentary about Maisa Alhafez, a musician and a Syrian refugee living in Istanbul. Separated from many of her loved ones, she builds a multicultural community: “The Oriental Istanbul Mosaic Choir”.
Ballad on the Shore
2017
98
'
Intangible Culture
Directed by
Chi-hang Ma
.
On the small isle of Tap Mun, Hong Kong, veteran fishermen sing ballads with pitches and tones that alternate and repeat themselves as if they were synchronising with the ocean waves. But as fewer
Hong Kong
Hunting / Gathering / Fishing
Music / Ethnomusicology
Barbara and Her Friends in Candombleland
1997
52
'
Directed by
Sylvie Timbert
Carmen Opipari
.
In the divine Afro Brazilian cult Candomble is an initiation religion centred around possession. The filmmakers concentrate on children who introduce and guide us to this world. The children play
South America
Children / Young people
Dance / Theatre / Performance
Possession
Ritual
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.
The Bastard Sings the Sweetest Song
2012
71
'
Directed by
Christy Garland
.
'The Bastard Sings the Sweetest Song', using direct cinema style, introduces us to the Smith family in Georgetown, Guyana, where both Muscle, and his mother Mary, each struggle to fight the family
South America
Elderly people
Family / Kinship
Intergenerational relations
Bath People
2015
60
'
Special Interest
Directed by
Stefania Bona
Francesca Scalisi
.
A small red-brick building carrying a big neon sign: "bagni". This is the last public baths in a city where everybody can take a shower in their own home. It is a microcosm of people's
Batusha's House
2016
70
'
Directed by
Tino Glimmann Jan Gollob
.
KADRI BATUSHA has been building his tremendous house in the outskirts of Prishtina (Kosovo) for 15 years without any plans or permits. The architecture of this enormous building, with its towers,
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
Benin Kingship Rituals
1963
20
'
Directed by
Frank Speed
Ray Bradbury
.
Until it was conquered by the British in 1897, the city of Benin, in what is now Nigeria, was the centre of a powerful kingdom. Its rulers, the Obas of Benin, were mysterious, secluded figures who
West Africa
Ritual
Dance / Theatre / Performance
History
Between Islam and the Sacred Forest
2017
52
'
Directed by
Martin Gruber
Frank Seidel
.
An investigation into the rituals in a small village on the coast of Guinea, West Africa to commemorate a recently deceased woman (a Muslim celebration of the 40th day after death conducted by a
Between Jirina and Anna
2015
5
'
Directed by
Tereza Stehlikova
.
My grandmother Jirina explains the history of a traditional costume that her own mother made. As Jirina's great granddaughter Anna tries the dress on, assisted by her own mother and grandmother, the
Between Memories
2015
34
'
Directed by
Martha-Cecilia Dietrich
.
Eudosia is still searching for her husband’s remains in the highlands of Ayacucho; Lucero has been in prison for 25 years now for the crime of terrorism against the Peruvian state; since 2009 the
South America
Memory
War / Conflict / Reconciliation
Between two Villages
2003
94
'
Directed by
Muriel Jaquerod
Eduardo Saraiva Pereira
.
Between two Villages tells the story of Aldeia da Luz, population of 330, bound to disappear with the construction of the Alqueva dam in the south of Portugal. A new village is being built a few
Western Mediterranean
Resettlement
Development projects
Infrastructure / Transport
Beyond Life - Cooling and Cleansing, in Kilimanjaro, Tanzania
2018
25
'
Directed by
Frode Storaas
Knut Chr. Myhre Myhre
.
On the rural slopes of Mount Kilimanjaro, a young man takes his own life, leaving a wife and small children behind. On the third day after his burial, a ceremony is conducted to cool and cleanse the
Beyond observation
'
Talks
.
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
Biographies of Struggle
2015
43
'
Directed by
Matteo Saltalippi
Greca Campus
.
Biographies of Struggle is a documentary analysing the longest steelworkers' strike in Italy since the last wave of labour unrest in the 80s. The Terni ThyssenKrupp factory threatened by 550 job cuts
Black Mountain
2008
84
'
Directed by
Charlotte Whitby-Coles
Amin Hajee
.
A once unremarkable site of multi-faith pilgrimage to a Sufi Saint has been transformed and its local history rewritten - the film documents the journey of Charlotte, a student undertaking her PhD
South Asia
Religion / Belief / Faith
Tourism / Travel / Pilgrimage
Inter-religious relations
The Block
2016
60
'
Student
Directed by
Maria Șalaru
.
From neighbourly disputes over garlic-heavy cooking to memories of Ceaușescu’s heatless winters, "The Block" explores the rich social and material universe of a Romanian apartment
Eastern Europe and Baltic States
Urban
Post-communism
Infrastructure / Transport
The Blooms of Benjeli: Technology and Gender in West African Ironmaking
1997
29
'
Directed by
Carlyn Saltman
.
The filmmaker and two historians went into the village of Banjeli in 1985 to recreate for the film the traditional iron smelting techniques (which are no longer used) of the area. By focusing on the
West Africa
Art / Artists / Artisans
Archival material / Museum displays
History
Material Culture
Body Games - Capoeira and Ancestry
2014
87
'
Student
Directed by
Richard Pakleppa
Matthias Röhrig Assunção
Christine Dettmann
.
The film follows master Cobra Mansa and his friends in the search for the African roots of the Brazilian martial art Capoeira. A powerful myth links Capoeira to a legendary Angolan game called Engolo
South America
Southern Africa
Dance / Theatre / Performance
Music / Ethnomusicology
Festivals / Carnival
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
Bonfires
2017
6
'
Shorts
Directed by
Martin Bureau
.
Huge bonfires are lit by Protestants in Northern Ireland on July 12 each year, as part of the celebrations of the 1690 Battle of the Boyne. They are made from wooden pallets, tires, and garbage. To
The Book of the Sea
2018
85
'
Material Culture
Directed by
Aleksei Vakhrushev
.
An intimate look inside day-to-day life on the frozen fringe of the Bering Strait in Russia, home to the Inuit and Chukchi. We follow community leader Alexei, his wife Galya (a nurse) and their son
Born
2008
56
'
Directed by
Andy Lawrence
Judith Kurutuac
.
*Our hope is to create a magical-real environment in which to go beyond the limits of our historical perspective on childbirth and its culturally bound rites, and to demonstrate an emotionally
British-Irish Isles
Health / Health care / Healing
Family / Kinship
Children / Young people
Boya Boya (Shine Shine)
2014
18
'
Directed by
Karen Boswall
Ruba Al Akash
.
A portrait of Syrian refugee Mohammed, a 12-year-old shoe shine boy, 'Boya Boya (Shine Shine)' looks at the reality of the growing population of urban refugees from a child's point of view. While
Middle and Near East
Children / Young people
Refugees / Displaced populations
Labour
Breaking the Chains
2015
64
'
Student
Directed by
Erminia Colucci
.
The practice of using shackles and chains to physically restrain people with mental illness (known as pasung) is widespread in Indonesia (as in many other developing/low middle income countries) and
South-East Asia
Prison
Health / Health care / Healing
Political Activists
Development projects
Breaking the Yard
2018
21
'
Directed by
Richard Werbner
.
"Breaking-the-Yard" documents the court hearings and troubled affairs of a quarrelsome young couple, a stay-at-home farmer and his police constable, town-savvy wife. They claim to be still
Southern Africa
Family / Kinship
Gender Role and Identity
Law and Legislation / Bureaucracy
Love
Marriage
Breeding Cells
2009
39
'
Directed by
Anna Straube
.
Breeding Cells is a film about a reproductive laboratory. A fertility clinic is a place where human reproduction is separated from sex and anatomized into bio/technological components. There
Western Europe
Reproduction (biology)
Science / Technology
The Bride of the Nile
2015
63
'
RAI Basil Wright
Directed by
Edouard Mills-Affif
.
A secluded village in the Nile Delta, a traditional Egyptian family. A drama of tragic proportions is being played out. Like millions of young girls throughout the world, Heba must marry a man that
Bridewealth for a Goddess
2000
72
'
Directed by
Chris Owen
.
A unique insight into a secret spirit cult among the Kawelka people in the Western Highlands of Papua New Guinea. After a dream, a clan leader initiates a long and complex 'work’, when he and a
Melanesia
Ritual
Marriage
Possession
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
Calcutta Calling
2006
16
'
Directed by
André Hörmann
.
“Business Process Outsourcing” is the fastest growing industry in the world. In India, approximately 350,000 people are currently working in call centres to maintain the contact between western
South Asia
Labour
Camels of the Pitjantjara
1969
45
'
Directed by
Roger Sandall
.
From the 1920s onwards, when motor vehicles displaced camels as a mode of supply in central Australia, camels gradually went feral. As this film shows, however, in the 1960s, the Pitjantjara were
Australia
Indigenous peoples / First Nations peoples
Infrastructure / Transport
Animals
Cantadoras: Musical Memories of Life and Death in Colombia
2017
70
'
Intangible Culture
Directed by
María Fernanda Carrillo Sánchez
.
A portrait of life in rural Colombia, towards its Carribean coast, told through the words and songs of the resilient Afro-colombian singers that farm there. Through intimate interviews and the
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.
Careers in Ethnographic Film
'
Workshop
Convened by
Ed Owles
.
What do people do with a degree in visual anthropology? A panel from a variety of roles across academia, TV and independent filmmaking discuss their career paths and how their training in
Carnival King of Europe
'
Workshop
Convened by
Giovanni Kezich
.
European winter festival masquerades possess a number of common elements - relating to character and content as well as structure - that are astonishingly similar across great geographical distances,
Casado's Legacy
2009
49
'
Directed by
Valentina Bonifacio
.
For 100 years Maskoy people worked in Carlos Casado’s tannin factory. The factory, which had been founded on their land, based its production on the exploitation of local natural resources. After
South America
Political Activists
Labour
Land Rights
Caught in Between
2016
56
'
Directed by
Richard Werbner
.
The focus is on a leading village elder, John Lelatlhego, a retired Human Resources administrator trained in settling disputes in the South African mines. John gets entangled in the long troubled
Southern Africa
Family / Kinship
Gender Role and Identity
Law and Legislation / Bureaucracy
Love
Marriage
Celso and Cora
2000
109
'
Directed by
Gary Kildea
.
The film is about one family who live in the slums of Manila. Gary Kildea and a Filipino collaborator enter this family's life, filming them as they eat, as they care for their children, as they work
South-East Asia
Squatter Settlements / Homelessness
Family / Kinship
Urban
Centenary of Jean Rouch
'
Gala event
Convened by
Paul Henley
.
After a brief introduction to the work of Jean Rouch, there will be a screening of one of his major works, "Moi, un Noir". This will be followed by a Round Table discussion and Q&A,
A Chair: in six parts
2013
42
'
Student
Directed by
Anna Grimshaw
.
A poem about a chair. In 1960, Bill Coperthwaite bought 300 acres of wilderness in Machiasport, Maine. Influenced by the poetry of Emily Dickinson and by the back to the land movement of Scott and
North America
Material Culture
Alternative culture
Art / Artists / Artisans
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
Cham in the Lepcha Village of Lingthem
2007
52
'
Directed by
Dawa Tsering Lepcha
.
Every winter, over a period of six days, the lamas of Lingthem's village monastery hold their annual cham. These dramatic ritual masked dances impart elementary Buddhist teachings while providing
South Asia
Ritual
Dance / Theatre / Performance
Religion / Belief / Faith
Changa Revisited
2016
60
'
RAI Basil Wright
Directed by
Peter Biella
Leonard Kamerling
.
This is the story of Tanzania Maasai elder Toreto ole Koisenge and his passage through three decades of cultural and economic change. Seen from two points across a thirty year divide, the film uses
Chantal's Choice
1990
30
'
Directed by
Priscilla Hinckley
Carlyn Saltman
.
Adolescents in Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso, create a play for their peers in Europe and the USA. They enact an African folktale about a girl who faces a painful dilemma because she is determined to stay in school.
West Africa
Dance / Theatre / Performance
Children / Young people
Reproduction (biology)
Chasing Houses
2017
60
'
Directed by
Justin Time
.
The experimental road movie enters the contradictory space between home and mobility. Through the vastness of the US American West, CHASING HOUSES follows mobile homes on their journey from tear down
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
The Chateau
2018
113
'
Directed by
Lisbet Holtedahl
.
A portrait of one of the richest Cameroonian industrialists Al Hajji Mohamadou Ousmanou Abbo. Filmed over a period of more than ten years, the red thread of the story is the construction of Al
The Child's Eye
2018
'
Directed by
David MacDougall
.
This video is a series of 12 short films that are the result of ethnographic filmmaker David MacDougall’s a five-year project video workshop project with Indian children. In six workshops held in
South Asia
Children / Young people
Informant-researcher relationship
Participatory / Collaborative methods
Chosen People
2016
18
'
Directed by
Qihui Wu
.
Responding to systematic racism and historical erasure, the African diapora has developed a multitude of tactics for mitigating oppressive ideological conditions. Among them, the Hebrew Israelite
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
The Chronotopes of Palestine
2015
38
'
Directed by
Dominika Blachnicka-Ciacek
.
The Chronotopes of Palestine (38’) is a collection of five ethnographic short films, which explore different modes of remembering the homeland among three generations of exiled Polish and British
Cine Rabeca
2022
55
'
Directed by
Marcia Mansu
.
Time dimensions emerge from the relation between the visible and the imagined, between memory and the experience of the present. A unique place emerges through the entanglement of music and archive
Latin America
Music / Ethnomusicology
Art / Artists / Artisans
Dance / Theatre / Performance
The Cinema Travellers
2016
96
'
RAI Basil Wright
Directed by
Shirley Abraham
Amit Madheshiya
.
An affectionate but melancholy ode to a vanishing phenomenon in rural India: the travelling cinema. The huge projector has been repaired countless times by its ingenious operator. The tent and screen
The City Beautiful
2003
78
'
Directed by
Rahul Roy
.
Sunder Nagri (Beautiful City) is a small working class colony on the margins of India’s capital city, Delhi. Most families residing here come from a community of weavers. The last ten years have
South Asia
Urban
Labour
Socioeconomic conditions
Closing Reception & Awards Ceremony
'
Gala event
Convened by
Paul Henley
.
Steven Hughes, chair of the panel of judges will invite his fellow judges to announce the 2017 film prizes and to give a brief explanation of the reasons for their decision. After each prize
A Cobra
2016
19
'
Directed by
Carlos Sautchuk
.
What we call Amazonia is actually a diversity of environments, artifacts, actions and actors. These elements are in a constant relation of genesis, producing each other in particular places and
Collum Calling Canberra
1983
59
'
Directed by
David MacDougall
Judith MacDougall
.
An account of Aboriginal people steering their way through the often frustrating processes of official decision-making, as it is seen from their viewpoint far away from Canberra. Gordon Smith, head
Australia
Law and Legislation / Bureaucracy
Indigenous peoples / First Nations peoples
A Colombian Family
2020
80
'
Main Competition
Directed by
Tanja Wol Sørensen
.
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
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
Confluences - Emerillon of French Guiana
2007
78
'
Directed by
Perle Møhl
.
Like self-fulfilling prophecies, scientific reports have hitherto depicted the Emerillon of French Guiana as cultureless and doomed to disappear. With this film, an anthropologist proposes to defy
South America
Indigenous peoples / First Nations peoples
Everyday Life
Conversations with Dundiwuy Wanambi
1984
50
'
Directed by
Ian Dunlop
Philippa Deveson
.
A series of interviews with Dundiwuy Wanambi, shot over twelve years. They reveal the struggles of one man in the face of the huge changes brought about by the coming of a mining project, and
Australia
Indigenous peoples / First Nations peoples
Health / Health care / Healing
Social Change
Copperworking in Santa Clara del Cobra, Michoacán, Mexico - Artisans Facing Change
2001
52
'
Directed by
Beate Engelbrecht
.
Santa Clara del Cobre, a village in Mexico's province Michoacán, is well-known for its copperwork, a craft originating from pre-Spanish times. In the late 1940s the people of Santa Clara tried to
Central America
Material Culture
Labour
Art / Artists / Artisans
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.
Cracks
2018
54
'
Directed by
Dimitra Kofti
.
Shiny supermarkets stand next to dilapidated factory buildings in the Bulgarian city of Pernik, one of the Balkans once most important industrial areas. Pernik used to be a symbol of
Creative Mentorship - Session 1
105
'
Forum
Convened by
Caterina Sartori
.
This special event provides a chance to glimpse exciting new ethnographic film projects in the making. In these sessions, filmmakers will pitch their projects and share a short extract from their
Creative Mentorship - Session 2
105
'
Forum
Convened by
RAI Film Festival
.
A chance to glimpse exciting new ethnographic film projects in the making. In these sessions, filmmakers will pitch their projects and share a short extract from their works-in-progress. They will
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
Cultivating Death
2003
23
'
Directed by
Martin Gruber
.
Cemeteries are not only places for the dead. They are also spaces in which the living interact with each other – and with the dead. “Cultivating Death” depicts the different ways in which
British-Irish Isles
Death
Ritual
Cuyagua - Devil Dancers
1987
52
'
Directed by
Paul Henley
.
The men of the Afro-Caribbean population of Cuyagua enact a ritual that occurs 60 days after Easter. The film is a portrait of two men who direct the devil dancing. They tell the history of the
South America
Ritual
Religion / Belief / Faith
Cuyagua - the Saint With Two Faces
1987
56
'
Student
Directed by
Paul Henley
.
The film centres on the predominantly female celebration of the feast of Saint John. The women sing the songs associated with the Feast, describe their beliefs and how they organise the feast.
South America
Ritual
Religion / Belief / Faith
Festivals / Carnival
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
Daba - Portrait of a Na Shaman
1999
40
'
Directed by
Hua Cai
.
After more than a quarter of a century without any form of religious ceremony, the Na, an ethnic group living on the Himalayan plateau, began openly practising their religion again in the early
South-East Asia
Education / Knowledge transmission
Religion / Belief / Faith
Shamans and Shamanism
Damiana Kryygi
2015
94
'
RAI Basil Wright
Directed by
Alejandro Fernández Mouján
.
The year is 1896. In the Paraguayan forest, a three-year-old Aché girl survives the massacre of her family by white settlers. She is baptised 'Damiana' by her captors. At the age of 14, she is
The Dancer and the Dance
1988
44
'
Directed by
Felicia Hughes-Freeland
.
This film is an invitation to see Javanese palace dancing as performed in Yogyakarta, Indonesia, and to go beyond appearances to discover what the dance means to those who continue the tradition. In
South-East Asia
Dance / Theatre / Performance
David MacDougall
2023
90
'
Special Programmes
.
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
The Day I Will Never Forget
2002
92
'
Directed by
Kim Longinotto
.
The documentary explores the local dimensions of the female circumcision debate in Kenyan societies. In a region of Kenya that is home to Muslims, Massai and Somali and crosscut by Christian
East Africa
Gender Role and Identity
Ritual
Law and Legislation / Bureaucracy
Political Activists
The Day the Sun Fell
2015
78
'
Special Interest
Directed by
Aya Domenig
.
Swiss-Japanese filmmaker Aya Domenig, the granddaughter of a doctor on duty for the Red Cross during the 1945 atomic bombing of Hiroshima, approaches the experience of her deceased grandfather by
South-East Asia
History
Memory
Health / Health care / Healing
War / Conflict / Reconciliation
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
Shorts
.
Rethinking how collections are made and remembered
Decolonising the Archive shorts #2
73
'
Shorts Programme
Shorts
.
Rethinking how collections are made and remembered
Delhi at Eleven
2013
82
'
Directed by
Ravi Shivhare
Anshu Singh
Kumar Kashyap
Shikha Kumar
.
This film presents the work of four young filmmakers of New Delhi. From March to May 2012 they took part in a video workshop at the CIE Experimental Basic School, a government primary school. Each of
South Asia
Film / Photography / Mass media
Children / Young people
Education / Knowledge Transmission
A Delicate Weave
2017
61
'
Intangible Culture
Directed by
Anjali Monteiro
KP Jayasankar
.
A fascinating tapestry of four different musical journeys across Gujarat, India: we meet a group of young men in Bhujodi who meet every night to sing the verses of 15th-century Indian mystic and poet
Democracía Indígena
2000
39
'
Directed by
Bruce Pacho Lane
.
This film examines the indigenous rights revolution sweeping Mexico through the municipal elections in Huehuetla, Puebla. In 1989, the Huehuetla Totonacs formed the Organización Independiente
Central America
Indigenous peoples / First Nations peoples
Political Activists
Depending on Heaven
1988
56
'
Directed by
Peter Entell
.
The film is in two parts and focuses on the Mongols living in the Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region of China. Part One (28 minutes) follows the life of a nomadic Mongol family on their yearly journey
Central Asia and Far East
Environment
Nomads and Nomadism
Herding
Everyday Life
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
The Devil and the Holy Water
2016
12
'
Directed by
Diego Maria Malara
.
For centuries, exorcism has been a daily practice in the Ethiopian Orthodox Church. But as Ethiopia has undergone extensive social change, exorcism has been revolutionized. New problems produce new
The Devil’s Mills. Roundabouts don't Build Houses any more
2006
56
'
Directed by
János Tari
.
The everyday life of migrant fun fair operators is the filter through which we view the social and economic factors of the 20th and early 21st century that define the life and work of this social
Central Europe
Labour
Social Change
Trade
Festivals / Carnival
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
Distant Temple
2002
90
'
Directed by
János Tari
.
The last orthodox synagogue in Makó was renewed and inaugurated in 2002. The little temple, as they call it, is more than hundred years old and represents the link between the Jews who emigrated
Middle and Near East
Migration
Religion / Belief / Faith
Divorce Iranian Style
1989
80
'
Directed by
Kim Longinotto
.
This film is set in the Family Law Courts in central Tehran. The three main characters are Jamileh who punishes her husband for beating her, Ziba, a 16 year old girl who is trying to get a divorce
Middle and Near East
Marriage
Gender Role and Identity
Law and Legislation / Bureaucracy
Family / Kinship
Diya
2001
55
'
Directed by
Judith MacDougall
.
A diya is a small terra cotta oil lamp used throughout India in Hindu ceremonies. The film follows the life history of an object through the every day experience of people who make, sell and use it
South Asia
Trade
Material Culture
Religion / Belief / Faith
Art / Artists / Artisans
Doctors of Two Worlds
1989
55
'
Directed by
Natasha Solomons
.
In the Bolivian highlands an English doctor is setting up a network of health care for remote mountain villages. While teaching the inhabitants the essentials of Western medicine the doctor is
South America
Health / Health care / Healing
Informant-researcher relationship
Development projects
A Donation to the Museum
2015
25
'
Directed by
Teri F. Brewer
.
Human remains from the California Channel Islands were donated to an English city museum nearly a century ago. More recently research began into how they came to be there, and whose remains they
North America
Western Europe
Archaeology
Archival material / Museum displays
Dor, Low is Better
1988
47
'
Directed by
Robert Boonzajer-Flaes
.
The film offers an experimental approach to the comparative study of cultures: the monks of a Tibetan monastery compare their own flutes with the Swiss alphorn and the Dutch windhorn introduced to
South Asia
Music / Ethnomusicology
Ritual
Dream Girls
1993
50
'
Directed by
Kim Longinotto
Jano Williams
.
This award-winning film opens a door into the amazing world of the Takarazuka Revue, the all-female theatre troupe in Japan. Thousands of young women aspire to perform in the Revue’s glitzy musical
Central Asia and Far East
Public Figure
Popular Culture
Dance / Theatre / Performance
Gender Role and Identity
Dreamcatcher
2015
98
'
Directed by
Kim Longinotto
.
A film set in Chicago about an inspirational woman who has defied her past and now rescues girls and young women from a life on the streets.
North America
Gender Role and Identity
Labour
Sex / Sexuality
Dreaming The Memories of Now
2018
92
'
Directed by
Geska Helena Brečević
Robert Brečević
.
Journeying into the mythical space of southern Mexico, visual artists Geska and Robert Brecevic and their five-year old daughter Katja unearth complex stories in which time, memory and nostalgia are
Drokpa
2016
79
'
RAI Basil Wright
Directed by
Yan Chun Su
.
Drokpa is an intimate portrait of the lives and struggles of nomads on the eastern Tibetan plateau. With rare access to a small community of nomads living on the vast yet rapidly degrading
Drugs & Prayers
2009
55
'
Directed by
Helene Basu
.
The Sufi shrine of Mira Datar in North Gujarat is a large pilgrimage centre specialising in healing possession and mental illness. It has become a site of experimenting with new forms of community
South Asia
Health / Health care / Healing
Ritual
Religion / Belief / Faith
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
Duka's Dilemma
2001
87
'
Directed by
Jean Lydall
Kaira Strecker
.
Filmmaker and anthropologist Jean Lydall has been making films with the Hamar community of southern Ethiopia since the 1970s. In 2001 she returned with her daughter and grandson to follow the
North and Northeast Africa
Family / Kinship
Marriage
Gender Role and Identity
Duminea: A Festival for the Water Spirits
1966
20
'
Directed by
Frank Speed
Robin Horton
.
The communal rituals of most villages of the Eastern Niger Delta focus on two great classes of spirits - the heroes and the water people. The heroes once lived with the men, founded their
West Africa
Ritual
Possession
Dust
2016
44
'
Material Culture
Directed by
Deepak Tolange
.
Every winter, thousands of Nepalis and Indians migrate to various parts of Nepal to work in brick factories. Many of these labourers are children who drop out of school, engage in hard labour and
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
Eat the Kimono
1989
60
'
Directed by
Kim Longinotto
Claire Hunt
.
A compelling biography of Hanayagi Genshu, a feminist and dancer who spent her lifetime defying the conservative traditions of Japanese society with her radical politics and unconventional
Central Asia and Far East
Public Figure
Gender Role and Identity
Art / Artists / Artisans
Dance / Theatre / Performance
Alternative culture
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
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
Enet Yapai - an Ambonwari Girl
2008
25
'
Directed by
Daniela Vávrová
.
Enet Yapai was six years old when Vavrova met her for the first time in 2005 in Ambonwari village, East Sepik Province, Papua New Guinea. Between November 2007 and April 2008 she followed Enet and
Melanesia
Children / Young people
Rural
Everyday Life
Engaging Media Worlds [NYU]
'
Talks
.
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.
The Ethnographer
2012
86
'
Directed by
Ulises Rosell
.
John Palmer arrived in a Wichí community, located in Argentina, thirty years ago as an anthropologist - today he has married a Wichí woman with whom he has five sons in the last 5 years, who babble
South America
History of Anthropology
Everyday Life
Informant-researcher relationship
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
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
Internet
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
Every Good Marriage Begins With Tears
2007
63
'
Directed by
Simon Chambers
.
East London Muslim girl Shahanara is changing form pink hot pants into a sari to meet her husband at the airport. She has only met him once before, when she was married in a union arranged by her
London
Family / Kinship
Gender Role and Identity
Marriage
Intergenerational relations
Social Norms
Extended Family
2016
31
'
Student
Directed by
Ramona Sonderegger
.
This films offers an intimate insight into the lives of two same-sex families who found a way to create themselves within a legal grey area in Switzerland. Swiss law bans adoption and access to
Western Europe
LGBTQI*
Family / Kinship
Sex / Sexuality
Law and Legislation / Bureaucracy
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
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
The Face Behind the Mask
2015
54
'
Intangible Culture
Directed by
Nirmal Chander Dandriyal
.
Weaving between past and present, performances and daily routine, this film focuses on the life and struggle of Shashadhar Acharya, a member of the fifth generation of a family of traditional Chhau
Fad'jal (Safi Faye Special Focus)
1979
112
'
Special Interest
Directed by
Safi Faye
.
The work of pioneering Senegalese filmmaker and ethnologist Safi Faye is the subject of our Special Focus at the 16th RAI Film Festival. In Fad'jal, Faye tells the story of a Serer village in the
Familiar Places
1980
50
'
Directed by
David MacDougall
.
Anthropologist Peter Sutton is taken by an Aboriginal family, the Naponans, to map hereditary clan country in northern Queensland where they hope to live one day. To the children it is all new; to an
Australia
Indigenous peoples / First Nations peoples
Land Rights
Education / Knowledge Transmission
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
The Family and the Animals
2015
15
'
Directed by
Jacob Hesmondhalgh
Marie-Josephine Hobson
.
Sunrise to set. An ethnographic film, using no subtitles or narration to depict and illustrate the co-existence of a rural Zimbabwean family and their animals.
Father's Prescription
2017
11
'
Shorts
Directed by
Enke Huang
.
A personal exploration of traditional Chinese medicine that considers the importance of its sensory qualities. Huang vividly recalls the extreme bitter taste and smell of the teas consumed by her
Fatmawati's Wedding: the Weddings of two Sisters, the Preparations
1998
50
'
Directed by
Fiona Kerlogue
.
This film records the preparations for the wedding of two sisters in eastern Sumatra in December 1996. There is an emphasis on the importance of the role of women in the village. Ritual exchanges
South-East Asia
Gender Role and Identity
Marriage
Ritual
Material Culture
Fatuma and Asya. Two Afar Girls in Ethiopia
2014
59
'
Directed by
Francesco Sincich
.
Two young Afar girls, Fatuma (10) and Asya (13), show us their daily life in two different contexts of the Afar Region in Ethiopia. Both of them face hard challenges: finding an alternative way to
West Africa
Gender Role and Identity
Marriage
Children / Young people
Rural
The Feel of History
2017
29
'
Directed by
Lise Zurné
.
Each year, on the 1st of March, a historical society called the Komunitas Djokjakarta 1945 re-enacts one of the last battles with the Dutch colonizers of 1949 in Yogyakarta, Indonesia. Following
A Feeling Greater Than Love
2017
93
'
Directed by
Mary Jirmanus
.
In her directorial debut, Mary Jirmanus Saba deals with a forgotten revolution, saving from oblivion bloodily suppressed strikes at Lebanese tobacco and Gandour chocolate factories. These events from
Fighting for Nothing to Happen
2015
48
'
Student
Directed by
Nora Wildenauer
.
After the volcanic eruption of Mount Rokatenda, the people of the island of Pulau Palue in east Indonesia are to be relocated. But are the planned relocation and the "new" life at the
South-East Asia
Law and Legislation / Bureaucracy
Refugees / Displaced populations
Development projects
Disasters
Film, Identity and Nation-Building
'
Workshop
Convened by
Jeremy MacClancy
.
This workshop will consist of two presentations that query the relations between film, identity, and nation-building. They will interrogate the connections between an ever-developing technology, a
Filmmaking for Fieldwork
'
Talks
.
Fire Mouth
2017
9
'
Shorts
Directed by
Luciano Pérez Fernández
.
A film about a football match in Pernambuco, Northeastern Brazil, in which we see none of the action, or even a single player. We only catch glimpses of the fans as they bake, rather sluggishly,
Fireball
'
Lifetime Achievement
.
Firth on Firth
1993
49
'
Directed by
Rolf Husmann
Peter Loizos
Werner Sperscheinder
.
In a series of interviews in his London home and the London School of Economics, Sir Raymond Firth talks about his life and some of his personal views. The film focuses thus on his Maori studies,
British-Irish Isles
History of Anthropology
Public Figure
The Five Breakfasts of Mr Podgoretsky
2016
21
'
Directed by
Carl Rowlinson
.
In the shadow of Brexit an expat is deported from a country that he has made his home over the last 50 years. This documentary asks what it means to make a country a home.
Five Faces of Shiva
2018
60
'
Directed by
R.A. Fedde
.
Five Faces of Shiva follows the rise and fall of the popularity of Hindu god lithographs, arguably India’s first mass media. Lithography — a printing technique which allowed for highly detailed
Floating Raft
2018
29
'
Directed by
Zhang Chong
.
Floating Raft takes an observational look at the life of a vibrant Chinese Buddhist monk Shi Yanyi and his Buddhist brothers, in Los Angeles. The Shaolin Temple is famous for its 1500-year Buddhist
Flores, little Jamaica
2017
49
'
Directed by
Maude Katz
.
The fact that a type of music specific to one place could touch a distant listener has always intrigued me. When I met young people of my generation who were fans of reggae music at Flores, a small
The Forgotten Generation
2015
40
'
Directed by
Deepa Dhanraj
.
In the Forgotten Generation older people aged over 60 in urban Tamil Nadu, rural Rajasthan and tribal Maharashtra reveal the realities of their lives, relationships and work as well as their
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
Fragments from the Past
2006
27
'
Directed by
Vedide Kaymak
Hakan Demiralay
.
In the days before DVD and satellite television, the cinema was important to London’s Turkish speaking population as a place to meet and as a link with home. Eight individuals recount their
British-Irish Isles
Popular Culture
Migration
Film / Photography / Mass media
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
Future Remembrance - Photography and Image Arts in Ghana
1998
54
'
Directed by
Tobias Wendl
Nancy du Plessis
.
The film portrays a vibrant range of contemporary and historical images by artists and photographers in Ghana. While glancing through the history of black & white photography in Ghana, the film
West Africa
Film / Photography / Mass media
Art / Artists / Artisans
Memory
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.
Gaea Girls
2000
106
'
Directed by
Kim Longinotto
Jano Williams
.
A film about courage, transformation and dreams in the extraordinary world of Japanese women's wrestling. Gaea Girls focuses on the hopes and fears of the beleaguered Gaea Japan squad, whose
Central Asia and Far East
Gender Role and Identity
Sport
Gali (Street)
2017
52
'
Directed by
Shabani Hassanwalia
Samreen Farooqui
.
Gali, delves into a world of hip-hop in Delhi, a community that role-plays participation, as well as, dissent, against a mainstream that continues to exclude them. The documentary catches them in
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
Gandhi's Children
2008
185
'
Directed by
David MacDougall
.
A monolithic building on the outskirts of Delhi provides food and shelter for 350 boys. Some are orphans, some have been abandoned, others have run away from home. About half are held under a court
South Asia
Children / Young people
Squatter Settlements / Homelessness
Socioeconomic conditions
Garden Days: Village in Papua New Guinea
1988
25
'
Directed by
Ariane Lewis
Jon Jerstad
.
A detailed account of domestic life in the Sepik area of Papua New Guinea, mainly from the women’s point of view. It describes their everyday activities in the ‘gardens’ in order to produce
Melanesia
Agriculture / Farming
Children / Young people
Ritual
Gelede: A Yoruba Masquerade
1970
30
'
Directed by
Frank Speed
Peggy Harper
.
Among the Yoruba of Western Nigeria and Dahomey the Gelede cult honours the earth spirits, the ancestors and especially the Great Mother. The festival filmed here emphasises the status of women and
West Africa
Gender Role and Identity
Ritual
Festivals / Carnival
Social Conflict
The George Brandt Lecture - An Open Conversation with Hugh Brody
'
Gala event
Convened by
Jacqueline Maingard
Angela Piccini
.
The RAI Life Achievement Award, which has been given at a number of RAI Film Festivals since 1990, has been awarded in 2017 to anthropologist, filmmaker and writer Hugh Brody. In collaboration with
Ghetto PSA
2016
15
'
Special Interest
Directed by
Rossella Schillaci
.
Jacob arrived in Italy alone from French Guinea when he was 11 years old. Today he is 27, and hip hop music is his whole world: it is his way to express dreams, hopes and frustrations, and to not
Western Europe
Music / Ethnomusicology
Migration
Education / Knowledge Transmission
Global Racialisations shorts
57
'
Shorts Programme
Shorts
Convened by
Mahdi Fleifel
.
Global racialisations - Q&A with directors
'
Talks
.
Gods and Satans
2005
87
'
Directed by
Martine Journet
Gérard Nougarol
Gabriel Chabanier
.
Among the Wana people, semi nomads from the Indonesian (Sulawesi) forest, Indo Pino is a shaman recognized by everybody. Her nephew, who is also a shaman’s son, converted to Christianity some
South-East Asia
Religion / Belief / Faith
Shamans and Shamanism
Inter-religious relations
The Golden Beach
2008
58
'
Directed by
Hasse Wester
.
A small group of farmers belonging to the Halakki Gowda tribe live near a small beach in a valley in southern India. When the Swedish film maker Hasse Wester was first there twenty years ago the
South Asia
Tourism / Travel / Pilgrimage
Rural
Social Change
The Good Wife of Tokyo
1992
52
'
Directed by
Kim Longinotto
Clare Hunt
.
Kazuko Hohki goes back to Tokyo with her band, the ‘Frank Chickens’, after living in England for 15 years. This wry and delightful film records her re-experiencing of Japan after a long absence,
Central Asia and Far East
Music / Ethnomusicology
Gender Role and Identity
Marriage
Social Change
Good-bye Old Man
1977
70
'
Directed by
David MacDougall
.
A last request of a Tiwi man on Melville Island was that a film be made of the pukumani (bereavment) ceremony to follow his death. The film follows his family, from the days of preparation to their
Australia
Indigenous peoples / First Nations peoples
Death
Elderly people
Film / Photography / Mass media
Ritual
Got High With Only One Day Singing
2015
33
'
Directed by
Meng Ziwei
.
Huaer sing the oldest and most renowned folk songs in Gansu Province, China.
The Granary of Salcete
2017
37
'
Directed by
Vince Costa
.
Curtorim is located on the banks of the river Zuari, in Goa, India. The people of this village have over centuries built a bond with rice, so profoundly that it earned the village the title of
Green River. The time of the Yakurunas
2017
70
'
Directed by
Alvaro Sarmiento
Diego Sarmiento
.
Guided by ayahuasca chants, GREEN RIVER. THE TIME OF THE YAKURUNAS is a poetic journey into the depths of the Amazon. The film explores the perception of time in three small villages intertwined by
Gringo Trails
2013
79
'
Special Interest
Directed by
Pegi Vail
.
For many the tourist pathway across South America, Africa and Asia known as the “gringo trail” offers life-altering adventures. For host nations, it offers financial security. But this trail
Guardians of the Night
2018
17
'
Shorts
Directed by
Alexandrine Boudreault-Fournier
Eleonora Diamanti
.
A survey of the happenings in Guantánamo, Cuba during nighttime. We see neighbourhood watchmen on lonely streets, bustling crowds of revellers in illuminated squares, families as they relax at home
The Guardian of the Forces
1991
52
'
Directed by
Anne Laure Folly
.
'The Guardian of the Forces' introduces the viewer to the world of Sikavi, a ‘fetish priest’ in Lome, Togo. He controls the spirits of several voodoos or gods. The film explores the significance
West Africa
Health / Health care / Healing
Possession
Ritual
The Guest
2012
20
'
Student
Directed by
Kira de Hemmer Jeppesen
.
Following the personal story of a Danish first-time surrogate mother, 'The Guest' explores issues of maternal bonding, modern families, relatedness, and desired control over body and mind. We follow
Scandinavia
LGBTQI*
Sex / Sexuality
Reproduction (biology)
Family / Kinship
The Guga Hunters of Ness
2010
59
'
Directed by
Mike Day
.
This film follows a vanishing community’s beloved and unique tradition. The Gaelic speakers of Lewis and Scotland are the only people in the EU exempt from a ban on hunting gannets, but they are
Western Europe
Hunting / Gathering / Fishing
Animals
Ritual
Guru, a Hijra Family
2016
75
'
Directed by
Laurie Colson
Axelle Le Dauphin
.
Guru documents the work and daily life of a family of hijras in a small village in the state of Tamil Nadu in southern India. Silky, Mahima, Trisha, Durga, Kuyili, Priyanka, Vasundhara and Yamuna,
Gushegu Exile
2017
52
'
Directed by
Emil Nørgaard Munk
.
In the shadow of a tree Salamatu separates pebbles from the beans she has found at the local market square. Nighttime is coming and her children are hungry. Gmanun is packing 14 years of life in
Gyalmu's House
2016
18
'
RAI Basil Wright
Directed by
Asmita Shrish
Gavin Carver
.
In 2015 an earthquake shook the mountains of the Langtang Valley, Nepal, causing landslides and avalanches taking hundreds of lives from the small community. A year later Nima Gyalmu, a woman of
H is for Harry
2018
81
'
Directed by
Ed Owles
Jaime Taylor
.
A coming of age story about Harry, a charismatic 11-year old boy, who arrives at secondary school in suburban London unable to read or write. With the help of Sophie, his extremely dedicated teacher,
HARMONI: HEALING TOGETHER
2021
98
'
Directed by
Erminia Colucci
.
As a nation of 270 million, Indonesia is facing the grave task of caring for millions of people living with mental illness. Many have experienced human rights abuses in their lifetime. In communities
South-East Asia
Health / Health care / Healing
Religion / Belief / Faith
Habilito - Debt for Life
2010
52
'
Directed by
Chuck Sturtevant
.
This documentary explores many of the conflicts and tensions that arise at the point of contact between highland migrants and lowland indigenous peoples, focusing particularly on the system of debt
South America
Socioeconomic conditions
Migration
Indigenous peoples / First Nations peoples
Labour
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
Heal the Whole Man
1974
50
'
Directed by
Paul Robinson
.
The ‘Barolong boo Ratshidi’ are one of the group of Tswana peoples, who together form a culturally homogeneous population of over two million. The Barolong themselves number about 75’000 and
Southern Africa
Religion / Belief / Faith
Health / Health care / Healing
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
Heartbound
2018
90
'
RAI Basil Wright
Directed by
Janus Metz
Sine Plambech
.
In a small, wind-swept fishing community on the Northern coast of Denmark live 926 Thai-women. 25 years ago there were none. Heartbound is a unique study of this unprecedented network of Thai/Danish
Herat Films: The City of Herat
1983
21
'
Directed by
John Baily
.
These videos were edited from seven hours of Super 8 film shot by John Baily during two years of ethnomusicological fieldwork carried out in the Herat region of western Afghanistan between 1973 and
Middle and Near East
Urban
Trade
Herat Films: The Annual Cycle of Music in Herat
1983
54
'
Directed by
John Baily
.
These videos were edited from seven hours of Super 8 film shot by John Baily during two years of ethnomusicological fieldwork carried out in the Herat region of western Afghanistan between 1973 and
Middle and Near East
Dance / Theatre / Performance
Music / Ethnomusicology
Herat Films: The Shrines of Herat
1983
30
'
Directed by
John Baily
.
These videos were edited from seven hours of Super 8 film shot by John Baily during two years of ethnomusicological fieldwork carried out in the Herat region of western Afghanistan between 1973 and
Middle and Near East
Religion / Belief / Faith
Urban
Hidden Faces
1990
52
'
Directed by
Kim Longinotto
.
This film reveals contradictions in the lives of Egyptian women in Muslim society. Living abroad, Safaa Fathy returns to Egypt to interview the internationally renowned feminist writer Nawal El
North and Northeast Africa
Gender Role and Identity
Development projects
Hold Me Tight Let Me Go
2007
99
'
Directed by
Kim Longinotto
.
*The main reason I wanted to shoot is that when the kids misbehave, the teachers don’t punish them but try to find out why they are acting in such a way. The driving idea behind the school is to
British-Irish Isles
Children / Young people
Education / Knowledge Transmission
Health / Health care / Healing
Holy Men and Fools
2005
61
'
Directed by
Michael Yorke
.
The film narrates the story of Uma Giri, a Swedish woman who has become a Hindu nun, called Uma Giri. She is one of the few western women to be accepted into the most radical order of wandering
South Asia
Religion / Belief / Faith
Inter-religious relations
Tourism / Travel / Pilgrimage
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
Honouring Professor Stephen Nugent
'
Conference
Convened by
Renato Athias
.
Professor Stephen Nugent, a major figure in the field of Visual Anthropology, passed away in November 2018. At Goldsmiths, Steve set up the pioneering MA in Visual Anthropology, and more recently
Horror in the Andes
2019
33
'
Special Interest
Directed by
Martha-Cecilia Dietrich
.
Horror in the Andes is a behind-the-scenes documentary that follows the process of making a horror movie in Ayacucho, Peru. Directed by audio-visual anthropologist Martha-Cecilia Dietrich, it
South America
Art / Artists / Artisans
Dance / Theatre / Performance
Ethnofiction
Film / Photography / Mass media
Indigenous peoples / First Nations peoples
A Hospice in Amsterdam
2005
62
'
Directed by
Steef Meyknecht
.
At the end of Van Goghstraat in Amsterdam is the Veerhuis. A normal residential house in a normal urban area, where children play outside in front of the door. But people come to the Veerhuis to die.
Western Europe
Health / Health care / Healing
Elderly people
The House-Opening
1980
45
'
Directed by
Judith MacDougall
.
When Geraldine Kawanka’s husband died, she and her children left their house at Aurukun on Cape York Peninsula. In earlier times a bark house would have been burnt, but today a ‘house-opening’
Australia
Ritual
Indigenous peoples / First Nations peoples
Death
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 am Sheriff
2017
28
'
Directed by
Teboho Edkins
.
“I am Sheriff” follows a young man as he travels the mountain kingdom of Lesotho showing his film in remote villages, schools and communities. Sheriff was born with a girl’s body, but as the
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
IT WAS TOMORROW
2018
53
'
Student
Directed by
Alexandra D'onofrio
.
After living in Italy for almost ten years without documents, three Egyptian men - Ali, Mahmoud and Mohamed - are suddenly awarded legal residence. As a whole new world of opportunities opens up to
Western Mediterranean
Animation
Art / Artists / Artisans
Dance / Theatre / Performance
Film / Photography / Mass media
Life Story / Life History
Memory
Migration
Research methods
Participatory / Collaborative methods
Ignacio's Legacy
2016
52
'
Special Interest
Directed by
Titus Fossgard-Moser
.
Between 1960 and 1992, the acclaimed documentary filmmaker Brian Moser made four films concerning indigenous peoples of northwest Amazonia: "Piraparana" (1960), "War of the Gods"
South America
Film / Photography / Mass media
Social Change
Reflexivity
Indigenous peoples / First Nations peoples
Imagine(ing) migration
'
Talks
.
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
Imbalu: Ritual of Manhood of the Gisu of Uganda
1988
69
'
Directed by
Richard Hawkins
.
An insightful documentary, constructed with visual restraint, about the male circumcision ritual among the Gisu of Uganda. The narrative follows one male participant through the ritual and contrasts
East Africa
Ritual
Gender Role and Identity
In the Devil's Garden
2018
25
'
Directed by
Pavel Borecký
.
The film situates the viewer within the makeshift space of an animal market in Algeria. Drifting between feeding and waiting, one attunes to the bodies of goats and camels, the oldest companions of
In the Land of the War Canoes
1972
47
'
Directed by
Edward S. Curtis
.
The film was made in 1914 by Edward Curtis. The plot concerns the efforts of a young man, Motana, son of a great chief, to obtain a bride and how he is thwarted by a wicked sorcerer. Many of the
North America
Archival material / Museum displays
Marriage
Film / Photography / Mass media
In the Light of Memory
2010
40
'
Directed by
Alyssa Grossman
.
'In the Light of Memory' explores evocations of memory in contemporary post-socialist Bucharest, nearly twenty years after the fall of Romanian communism. The film is shot in Cismigiu Gardens, one of
South-East Europe
Memory
Post-communism
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 of the Hamat’sa: A Tale of Headhunting
2004
33
'
Directed by
Aaron Glass
.
The Hamat’sa (or “Cannibal Dance”) is the most important—and highly represented ceremony of the Kwakwaka’wakw (Kwakiutl) people of British Columbia. This film traces the history of
North America
Archival material / Museum displays
Dance / Theatre / Performance
Ritual
Informant-researcher relationship
Indigenous peoples / First Nations peoples
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
In and Out of Africa
1993
59
'
Directed by
Ilisa Barbash
Lucien Taylor
.
A classic in ethnographic filmmaking, In and Out of Africa traces the transnational trade of African Art between West Africa and the USA, providing an insight into how value, commoditization and
North America
Art / Artists / Artisans
Trade
Material Culture
Indo Pino
2002
84
'
Directed by
Martine Journet
Gérard Nougarol
Gabriel Chabamier
.
The small ethnic group of the Wana Wewaju live in Indonesia in the eastern part of Sulawesi (Celebes Island) among the dense equatorial rain forest of the Tokkala Mountains. The film documents the
South-East Asia
Shamans and Shamanism
Health / Health care / Healing
The Intelligent Hand
2015
21
'
Directed by
Trevor H. J. Marchand
.
The Intelligent Hand introduces us to a first-year cohort of British fine woodwork trainees at the Building Crafts College in Stratford, East London. Through the narratives of the course tutor and
Interactive Documentary and Ethnographic Film
'
Workshop
Convened by
Judith Aston
Paolo Favero
.
This workshop will aim to generate a constructive dialogue between innovative or emerging non-linear (or interactive) documentary practices and the terrain of ethnographic film. It will be structured
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
Istanbul Notes
2016
69
'
Directed by
Özlem Sariyildiz
Yunus Emre Aydin
.
‘Istanbul Makamı’ is a cinematographic improvisation with 5 musicians from abroad who fall in love with the Maqam Music (Classical Ottoman Music) and decide to live in Turkey believing that
J. C. Abbey, Ghana's Puppeteer
2016
55
'
Intangible Culture
Directed by
Steven Feld
.
This film presents an exceptional fifty-year artistic career, from Accra’s streets to Ghana’s villages to international TV. In fifteen delightful puppet shows, Mr. Abbey chronicles Ghana's music
Janitzio its fishing, its pinatas
2015
31
'
Directed by
Jose Figueroa
Paola Rodriguez
David Figueroa
Omar Foglio
.
Since the 80s around 250 Purepecha families settled in Rosarito, Baja California, Mexico. They traveled more than 2,500 miles from Janitzio island, where they were fishermen and weavers of nets,
Je ne suis pas moi-même
2009
50
'
Directed by
Alba Mora
Anna Sanmartí
.
Shot in Cameroon and Brussels, 'Je ne suis pas moi-même' examines the complex network surrounding the international market of African antiquities, and the contradictions in a European art market
Central Africa
Western Europe
Art / Artists / Artisans
Trade
The Jerusalem Dream
2016
54
'
RAI Basil Wright
Directed by
Meni Elias
.
In the late 1970s, after thousands of years of praying and longing for Jerusalem, the first Ethiopian Jews arrived in Israel. Was it worth it? in this film the question is posed for the first time
The Jiama Paper of Bai With My Heart
2016
21
'
Directed by
He Zi Jian Li
.
Traditional Jiama imprinted paper production in the Bai cultural region, southwest China, presented through the experiences of one particular family.
John Baily Masterclass - Afghan Music
'
Masterclass
Convened by
Barley Norton
.
In this revelatory masterclass John Baily will trace his ‘career’ as an ethnomusicological film maker, starting with the films he made as a result of research in Herat, Afghanistan, in the 1970s:
Journey into Europe
2015
122
'
Directed by
Akbar Ahmed
.
In Journey into Europe, Akbar Ahmed, a world-renowned anthropologist, Islamic scholar, and filmmaker who the BBC has called “the world’s leading authority on contemporary Islam,” explores Islam
Central Europe
Western Europe
South-East Europe
History
Religion / Belief / Faith
Collective / Community identity
Journey of the Maggot Feeder
2015
68
'
Directed by
Liivo Niglas
Priit Tender
.
This film tries to solve the mystery of a bizarre Arctic fairy tale. Priit Tender, an Estonian animator, makes a film about an old Chukchi legend – The Maggot Feeder. The unconventional narrative
Central Asia and Far East
Animation
Film / Photography / Mass media
Myths / Fairy tales
Journey to the Maggot Feeder
2015
68
'
RAI Basil Wright
Directed by
Liivo Niglas
Priit Tender
.
This film tries to solve the mystery of a bizarre Arctic fairy tale. Priit Tender, an Estonian animator, makes a film about an old Chukchi legend – The Maggot Feeder. The unconventional narrative
A Kabul Music Diary
2003
52
'
Directed by
John Baily
.
Ethnomusicologist John Baily returns to Kabul to see what is happening in the world of music one year after the defeat of the Taliban. The film documents a variety of musical activities, including
Middle and Near East
Music / Ethnomusicology
War / Conflict / Reconciliation
Kalanda - the Knowledge of the Bush
2014
62
'
Directed by
Lorenzo Ferrarini
.
In some parts of West Africa, hunting is much more than killing animals. A donso is no common hunter, but a healer, a diviner, a ritual specialist and amulet maker. Kalanda is a unique initiatory
West Africa
Hunting / Gathering / Fishing
Religion / Belief / Faith
Education / Knowledge Transmission
Ritual
A Kali Temple Inside Out
2018
83
'
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
Kalès
2017
63
'
RAI Basil Wright
Directed by
Laurent van Lanker
.
A film of wind and despair, of fire and solidarity, of hope and hell. An intimate and inside perspective of the ‘jungle’ of Calais, evoked through a polyphony of bodies, tales, and
Western Europe
Migration
Refugees / Displaced populations
Squatter Settlements / Homelessness
Participatory / Collaborative methods
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
Kanraxël: the Confluence of Agnack
2015
52
'
Student
Directed by
Remigiusz (aka Remi) Sowa
.
**DVD copies are available for secondary teaching and home use at the following prices: £35 (plus VAT) schools and colleges; £20 (plus VAT) individual / home use licence** Agnack is a
West Africa
Linguistics / Language
Social Change
Kashi Labh
2018
43
'
Directed by
Rajat Nayyar
.
This film explores the aesthetics of dying, family as a unit of care, and taking the last vital breath in Kashi, India’s sacred city. With Kashi Labh, Nayyar reflects upon his work with families
Kat Cizek
2023
90
'
Special Programmes
.
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
Keepers of the Faith: The Buddhist Nuns of Sagaing Hills
1996
51
'
Directed by
Hiroko Kawanami
.
In the Sagaing Hills, 12 miles from the ancient capital of Mandalay are hundreds of pagodas, stupas, monasteries and nunneries which form a focal point of worship for Buddhism in Burma. In 1986 the
South-East Asia
Religion / Belief / Faith
Collective / Community identity
Gender Role and Identity
Keynote by Faye Ginsburg
'
Talks
.
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
'
Talks
.
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.
Kim Longinotto
120
'
Gala event
Convened by
Angela Piccini
.
This year, the RAI Lifetime Achievement Award will be awarded in 2019 to multi award winning filmmaker Kim Longinotto. Marking this occasion, Longinotto will give the 2019 George Brandt Lecture at a
King On, Brasil!
2018
15
'
Special Interest
Directed by
Luiza Folegatti
.
King On, Brasil! is a short documentary featuring six Brazilian Drag Kings and their use of social media to share their work, knowledge and performances which in turn strengthen their community. The
The King of the Cockroaches
2016
70
'
Student
Directed by
Timothy Cooper
.
The degraded surfaces of mass-copied films - the glitches, scanlines, errors, and coding artifacts - rather than the filmmaker’s imprint, reveal the material culture and social life of film
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
Kivalina
2016
64
'
RAI Basil Wright
Directed by
Gina Abatemarco
.
More than a hundred miles above the Arctic Circle, an Inupiaq Eskimo community is living on an island that is fast disappearing into the ocean. With no resources to move and only a precarious sea
Knots and Holes. An Essay Film on the Life of Nets.
2018
74
'
Special Interest
Directed by
Mattijs van de Port
.
A singular anthropological essay film that observes the various nets we find across different contexts in Bahia (from fishing nets to delicate nets of lace), and the emotions and sensations
South America
Essay film
Reflexivity
Love
Kokota: The Islet of Hope
2015
29
'
Directed by
Craig Norris
.
Mbarouk Mussa Omar is from an East African Island called Pemba. Nearly ten years ago he visited a tiny neighbouring islet called Kokota and was shocked by what he saw. Kokota was teetering towards
Komian
2015
72
'
Directed by
Jordi Esteva
.
Four years after the filming of “Return to the Land of Souls”, about the rituals of trance and possession, the narrator travels to Ivory Coast in search of a priestess possessed by the Spirit of
West Africa
Possession
Ritual
Music / Ethnomusicology
Koriams Law and the Dead who Govern
2005
110
'
Directed by
Gary Kildea
Andrea Simon
.
In ‘Koriam's Law’ Australian anthropologist Andrew Lattas meets his match in philosopher-informant Peter Avarea of Matong village, Pomio, Papua New Guinea. Motivated by their lively dialogue the
Melanesia
Religion / Belief / Faith
Collective / Community identity
Possession
Kusum
2000
69
'
Directed by
Jouko Aaltonen
Antti Pakaslahti
.
Kusum is a 14-year-old Indian girl. She lives and attends school in Delhi. Kaushal, her father, drives a motorised rickshaw and works his fingers to the bone to support his family. Sumitra, Kusum’s
South Asia
Children / Young people
Health / Health care / Healing
Possession
Kwagh Hir
1975
30
'
Directed by
Frank Speed
Peggy Harper
.
Four million Tiv people form the major culture of the Benue state of southern Nigeria. They are popularly known as the greatest democrats in Africa as their society is based on fraternal cooperation
West Africa
Festivals / Carnival
Dance / Theatre / Performance
Ritual
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
Lampedusa in Winter
2015
93
'
RAI Basil Wright
Directed by
Jakob Brossmann
.
The Italian "refugee island" of Lampedusa is in the firm grip of winter's tristesse. The tourists have left, the remaining refugees fight to be taken to the mainland. As a fire destroys the
The Land Beneath Our Feet
2016
60
'
RAI Basil Wright
Directed by
Sarita Siegel
Gregg Mitman
.
The Land Beneath Our Feet weaves together rare archival footage from a 1926 Harvard expedition to Liberia with the journey of a young Liberian man, uprooted by war, seeking to understand how the past
Land of Udehe
2015
26
'
Student
Directed by
Ivan Golovnev
.
This film takes us into the world of Udehe – indigenous people of the Far East of Russia. According to the census of 2010, their population dropped to 1,490 souls…
Central Asia and Far East
Indigenous peoples / First Nations peoples
Social Change
Last Days. Last Shot
2016
52
'
Directed by
Sumira Roy
.
In ancient Eastern thought, there are no absolute truths and even in death there is no one model. Through the film’s two characters and their simple acts of daily life we explore two contrasting
The Last Navigator
1989
50
'
Directed by
André Singer
.
This is the story of two cultures and two technologies. An American navigator is taught the skills of navigation by a traditional Micronesian navigator on Satawal island. The American tries to
Micronesia
Tourism / Travel / Pilgrimage
Infrastructure / Transport
Education / Knowledge Transmission
Last Round of Jaldi Five
2017
26
'
Directed by
Ellen Lapper
.
2017 marked seventy years since the decolonisation and Partition of India, sparking one of the largest mass migrations in history. One particular community uprooted by this event were the
Law and War in Rural Kenya
2010
64
'
Directed by
Suzette Heald
.
In 1998, a new movement swept through Kuria, in south western Kenya with dramatic effect. Cattle raiding fuelled by the increasing presence of guns had led to a situation of total insecurity, with
East Africa
War / Conflict / Reconciliation
Law and Legislation / Bureaucracy
Leaving Greece
2013
79
'
Directed by
Anna Brass
.
When entering the EU for the first time, a refugee must submit an application for asylum. So much is clear. Less well known, however is the fact that for 90% of all refugees, the Aegean is the
Western Mediterranean
Children / Young people
Migration
Love
Legacies
2018
34
'
Student
Directed by
Clair Maleney
.
The pioneering approach of Jubilee School in West Philadelphia seeks to empower its students (mainly black, and from low-income households), via a curriculum which highlights the arts, social
Lessons from Gulam
1986
52
'
Directed by
John Baily
.
A detailed study of musical enculturation within the Asian community of Bradford in northern England. Gulam Musa is the principal character and he is shown as a teacher and as a musician. The film
British-Irish Isles
Music / Ethnomusicology
Education / Knowledge Transmission
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
Letter to the Dead
2002
62
'
Directed by
Andre Iteanu
Eytan Kapon
.
The film is about the encounter between tradition and modernity. In a small village of Papua New Guinea three exceptional men rival with each other in the field of rituals and artistic creation in
Melanesia
Social Change
Art / Artists / Artisans
Death
Letters from Palestine
2011
35
'
Directed by
Ludovica Fales
.
What if in your great-grandfather's letters there is a mystery your family doesn't want to talk about? In 1920 Angelo Levi Bianchini set out to Palestine on an Italian diplomatic mission and never
Western Mediterranean
Middle and Near East
War / Conflict / Reconciliation
Memory
History
La forma del mundo
2017
88
'
Directed by
David Delgado San Ginés
.
A sound is born from the root of the earth. Those are the voices that sing for the animas of Purgatory. Every year for centuries los Cantadores de Arbejales, in the misty mountains of the island of
Life Chances: Four Families in a Greek Cypriot Village
1974
43
'
Directed by
Peter Loizos
.
A careful account of social change in a prosperous Greek Cypriot village, which follows four closely related families before the Turkish made them all refugees. Their lives reflect the possibilities
South-East Europe
Social Change
Life Story / Life History
Rural
Family / Kinship
The Life of Others
2017
45
'
Directed by
Robert McNamara
.
The film is a compilation of scenes from Kazakh Mongolian life outside of Bayan Olgii in Western Mongolia. It was made during a one month period where I lived with and filmed a group of families
A Life with Slate
2006
59
'
Directed by
Dipesh Kharel
.
Alampu is a beautiful and exceedingly remote village in Nepal. The majority of the settlers there are Thami people, one of the indigenous groups of Nepal. More than 90 percent of them have been
South Asia
Labour
Socioeconomic conditions
Limpiadores
2015
39
'
Directed by
Fernando Mitjáns
.
Migrating is seldom an easy solution. It is rather a journey that begins with a journey. After more than eight years of campaigning, the immigrant cleaners outsourced at the School of Oriental and
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,
Link-up Diary
1997
86
'
Directed by
David MacDougall
.
The filmmaker goes on the road with Link-Up, an organisation which re-unites Aboriginal families separated in earlier decades by the New South Wales government. As the film shows, being reunited
Australia
Resettlement
Family / Kinship
Collective / Community identity
Indigenous peoples / First Nations peoples
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
Little Waterfall
2002
52
'
Directed by
Joshka Wessels
.
Shallalah Saghirah ('Little Waterfall') is a small village of about 20 households located in the Khanasser valley, in north Syria. The village has no electricity and still uses an ancient ganat
Middle and Near East
Infrastructure / Transport
Material Culture
Development projects
Living Here
2017
16
'
Shorts
Directed by
Sarah Baril Gaudet
.
In Aupaluk, Northern Quebec, a small cluster of primary coloured buildings cluster amidst the blinding white tundra. We are introduced to the tiny town (population 200, mainly Inuit) by a thoughtful
Living with Boko Haram
2016
37
'
Special Interest
Directed by
Trond Waage
.
January 2015. Boko Haram's violent insurgency is approaching Mogdé, on the Nigerian/Cameroonian border, where Antoniette lives. Just outside Oslo, Norway, lives her son Vakote, worried and afraid
West Africa
Scandinavia
Religion / Belief / Faith
Social Conflict
War / Conflict / Reconciliation
Migration
Living with the Invisibles
2003
52
'
Directed by
Dirk Dumont
.
When they emigrated to Europe in the 60’s and 70’s, Moroccans brought with them their culture and their “diseases” ( caused by the the jinn that inhabit some of them). In Europe, most North
North and Northeast Africa
Health / Health care / Healing
Possession
Migration
The Log Rafters of Lake Aegeri
2016
29
'
Material Culture
Directed by
Thomas Horat
.
Aegeri, in a remote part of Switzerland, is one of the few lakes in Central Europe where professional log rafters can still be found. This film is based on the gentle observation of the work of a
Western Europe
Material Culture
Labour
Rural
MASTER FENG, TAOIST MONK IN CHINA TODAY
2018
72
'
Directed by
Adeline HERROU
.
This ethnographical film paints the portrait of a Taoist monk in central China. Forced to return to a lay life during the Cultural Revolution (1966-76), he was sent to work in the fields for 15th
Maboan - notes on the construction of a dam
2015
25
'
Directed by
Ana Luísa Luz
Joana Sousa
Zaino Zauad
Ansomane Dabo
Braima Indjai
.
The colonial military offensive and consequent population exile during the Independence Struggle in Guinea-Bissau (1963-1974) led to the destruction of many mangrove rice fields. In every corner of
Mabo: Life of an Island Man
1997
87
'
Directed by
Trevor Graham
.
On June 3rd 1992, six months after Eddie ‘Koiki’ Mabo’s tragic death, the High Court upheld his claim that Murray Islanders held native title to land in the Torres Strait. The legal fiction
Australia
Public Figure
Colonialism / Postcolonialism
Life Story / Life History
Political Activists
Land Rights
Law and Legislation / Bureaucracy
MacDougall Masterclass - Turkana Conversations Revisited
'
Masterclass
Convened by
Michael Stewart
.
Marking 40 years since its original release as well as its more recent digital remastering, David MacDougall will present the classic trilogy he made with his wife Judith on the Turkana pastoralists
Mahdi Fleifel Trilogy
103
'
Shorts Programme
Shorts
.
Affects and Imaginaries of Racialisation
Majma
2001
54
'
Directed by
Rahul Roy
.
Aslam sells medicines for sexual problems on the pavements of Meena Bazar near Jama Masjid in Delhi. Khalifa Barkat presides over an wrestling gym (akhara) in the adjacent park and puts a group of
South Asia
Gender Role and Identity
Sport
Socioeconomic conditions
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
Making a Living in the Dry Season
2016
35
'
Directed by
Ines Ponte
.
Set in the highlands village of Katuwo, the film is an intimate portrait of the day-to-day life of a family living in an agro-pastoralist farm in Namibe, Angola. Through my request to my host
Masks of Mer
2010
37
'
Directed by
Michael Eaton
.
The film Alfred Haddon made in 1898 in the Torres Straits, lasting for less than a minute, is the world's first example of anthropological cinema. 'The Masks of Mer' tells the extraordinary story of
Australia
History of Anthropology
Film / Photography / Mass media
Archival material / Museum displays
Ritual
Masterclass: Laurent Van Lancker
105
'
Masterclass
Convened by
Chris Wright
.
This year's RAI Film Festival Masterclass will be delivered by award-winning filmmaker Laurent Van Lancker, in conversation with Chris Wright. Van Lancker won the Basil Wright Prize at the RAI
Matai Samoa
1989
65
'
Directed by
George Milner
.
The film is a valuable treatment of archival footage that George Milner shot while conducting fieldwork in 1955 and 1959. The footage (18 minutes of the total film) focuses on the traditional Samoan
New Zealand and Polynesia
History of Anthropology
Film / Photography / Mass media
Social Organisation
Archival material / Museum displays
Ritual
Messages by Music - Senegal in Transition
2013
76
'
Directed by
Cornelia Strasse
.
The traditional musicians in Senegal were in charge of retaining the history of their ethnic group, along with ways of thinking and behaving. Their aim was to conserve the society. Nowadays the
East Africa
Music / Ethnomusicology
Colonialism / Postcolonialism
Social Change
Political Activists
Resistance
Midnight Ramblers
2017
57
'
Directed by
Julian Ballester
.
Night after night, Kye, Tobie, Paul, Kim and Tattoo wander through the streets and alleys of Montreal. They support each other, and they are all drug users. It is their only way of escaping a harsh
Migrants of ther Dunes
2017
28
'
Directed by
Erica Pomerance
.
The dramatic sanding-over of arable land caused by climate change now threatens the very survival of many ancestral Dogon communities along the magestic Bandiagara Cliffs in Mali. The Dogon people
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
Mirror Mirror
2006
58
'
Directed by
Zemirah Moffat
.
Mirror Mirror is based on an audio-visual ethnography of London’s queer Club Wotever. Begun in the autumn of 2003, it promoted itself as a club that welcomed all genders and sexualities – a
British-Irish Isles
LGBTQI*
Sex / Sexuality
Gender Role and Identity
A Miscellany of Families
2015
36
'
Directed by
Eluned Zoe Aiano
.
This multi-layered documentary explores the way we navigate the stories that are presented to us during childhood and how we choose to pass them on through ideological influences and shifting values.
Mobail Goroka
2018
17
'
Shorts
Directed by
Jackie Kauli
.
Glossy advertisements for telecommunications company Digicel abound in Goroka, a town in Papua New Guinea’s eastern highlands. This film takes a close look at the footsoldiers of this multinational
The Modern Jungle
2016
72
'
RAI Basil Wright
Directed by
Charles Fairbanks
.
The Modern Jungle is a portrait of globalization filtered through the fever dream of its main character – a Mexican shaman, don Juan – who falls under the spell of a pyramid-scheme-marketed
A Month in the Life of Ephtim D.
1999
56
'
Directed by
Antonii Dontchev
.
Ephtim D., 73 years old, is a retired postman. He lives in Sofia with his wife Ghinka in a three room suburban apartment. As a socialist he feels confused by the ‘crazy’ democracy and the
South-East Europe
Health / Health care / Healing
Post-communism
Socioeconomic conditions
Mossane (Safi Faye Special Focus)
1996
105
'
Special Interest
Directed by
Safi Faye
.
The work of pioneering Senegalese filmmaker and ethnologist Safi Faye is the subject of our Special Focus at the 16th RAI Film Festival. Mossane is one of her greatest achievements, and we present
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)
'
Talks
.
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
My Eyes as a Stranger
1984
53
'
Directed by
Toni de Bromhead
.
This film tells the story of the friendship between an English filmmaker and Nicola, a Sicilian ex-gangster who lives in Florence. The film moves to and fro between a street of ill repute, and the
South-East Europe
Gender Role and Identity
My Name is Eeooow
2016
52
'
Intangible Culture
Directed by
Oinam Doren
.
Imagine a village where you sing every time you call someone's name. In the village of Kongthong, everybody has a song tune as a name - the 'Jingrwai Iawbei'. The name comes from a mother as an
The Mystery of the Frozen Tombs: A Young Lady Emerges From the Ice
1994
44
'
Directed by
Francoise Levie
.
The film unfolds the archaeological discovery of the frozen tombs of Altai, part of the Scythian culture in the Siberian steppe.
Central Asia and Far East
Archaeology
NEW RISE, OLD EBB
2018
28
'
Directed by
Carlo Cubero
Enrico Barone
Kristiina Pilvet
.
In 2016 from May to September, on the island of Piirissaare, a series of fires destroyed several houses and the prayer house, causing insecurities and disagreements in the community.
NGAT IS DEAD: STUDYING MORTUARY TRADITIONS
2007
59
'
Directed by
Christian Suhr Nielsen
Ton Otto
.
A film about how anthropological knowledge is developed through active participation in traditional exchange ceremonies on the small island of Baluan in the South Pacific. The film follows the
Melanesia
Death
Ritual
Informant-researcher relationship
Social Conflict
NHENHA
2018
26
'
Student
Directed by
Andre Bahule
Karen Boswall
.
“We work the land and we dance. That’s what we know how to do” explains Maria in this portrait of the lives of three generations of women in southern Mozambique. The dance they dance is the
Naach Bhikhari Naach
2018
72
'
Directed by
Shilpi Gulati
Jainendra Dost
.
Naach is a form of traditional folk theatre from Bihar, India. In this tradition, male artists often cross dress as women on stage and are referred to as ‘laundas’. The most legendary name in
Namatjira Project
2017
87
'
Directed by
Sera Davies
.
An extraordinary first-hand account of the international battle to reclaim the artwork and heritage of one of Australia’s most important Indigenous figures: Albert Namatjira. Albert Namatjira was
Australia
Art / Artists / Artisans
Collective / Community identity
Colonialism / Postcolonialism
Indigenous peoples / First Nations peoples
Law and Legislation / Bureaucracy
Political Activists
Race / Racism / Antiracism
Nawi
1970
20
'
Directed by
David MacDougall
Judith MacDougall
.
This classic ethnographic documentary, by the renowned filmmaking team of David and Judith MacDougall, explores the nomadic life of the Jie of Uganda. During the dry season the Jie leave their
East Africa
Herding
Music / Ethnomusicology
Nomads and Nomadism
Negotiating Amnesia
2015
30
'
Directed by
Alessandra Ferrini
.
Negotiating Amnesia takes as its starting point two collections of photographs found within the Alinari's photographic Archive in Florence (Italy): a series of black and white images of the Ethiopian
Never Hold Your Breath
2016
34
'
Directed by
Gil Orr Urtreger
.
Utila is a tiny island in the Western Caribbean, part of the Republic of Honduras. It is a mixed community established in the 1800s by Caymans, outlaws and former slaves. We arrive as travelers and
A New Era
2019
71
'
Werbner Award
Directed by
Boris Svartzman
.
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
New Images
1964
27
'
Directed by
Ulli Beier
Frank Speed
.
The film is a brief description of life in a busy commercial centre that still depends upon and retains its ancient traditions. These are based on the history of the town which was founded on the
West Africa
Art / Artists / Artisans
Religion / Belief / Faith
Archival material / Museum displays
New Moon
2018
70
'
Directed by
Philippa Ndisi-Herrmann
.
.See less NICHE African, Islamic, Developing Nations, Women
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
Nicobar, a long way...
2016
60
'
Directed by
Richa Hushing
.
Deep in the Bay of Bengal, the Nicobar archipelago, a tribal reserve protected under Andaman and Nicobar Protection of Aboriginal Tribes Regulation, was worst smashed by the Tsunami of 26th December
Niishii | Night Worlds
2017
22
'
Student
Directed by
Saranya Nayak
.
What happens to a town after sunset? What happens to life and light? Niishii is an evocative tour through the night time hours in the town of Dubrajpur (West Bengal, India). Here, amidst inky
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
Nobody Dies Here
2016
23
'
Directed by
Simon Panay
.
Perma gold mine, Benin. Some dream to find something, others realized there was nothing to be found. Some dig relentlessly hoping to become rich, others died in the process. And a few of them say that here, nobody dies.
Nodas. Launeddas at the time of crisis.
2015
29
'
Intangible Culture
Directed by
Umberto Cao
Andrea Mura
.
Dating back 3000 years to the Nuragic civilisation on Sardinia, 'launeddas' are wind instruments that testify to contacts from across the Mediterranean. Although they nearly vanished in the 1960s, in
Western Mediterranean
Music / Ethnomusicology
Festivals / Carnival
Intergenerational relations
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
Nuba Wrestling
1991
42
'
Directed by
Rolf Husmann
Werner Sperschneider
.
The weekly wrestling tournaments of the Sudanese Nuba migrants in Khartoum usually take place between Northern and Southern Nuba men. The sport helps them strengthen their ethnic identity in a
North and Northeast Africa
Collective / Community identity
Gender Role and Identity
Urban
Sport
Nyumba Nthobu
2016
15
'
Directed by
Nick Lunch
.
This film was made by a group of women from the Mara region, North Tanzania, who practise an old tradition called Nyumba Nthobu, by which childless (or lonely) women known as ‘Mamas’ can legally
OTHER FIRE
2017
21
'
Directed by
Guilherme Moura Fagundes
.
A sensorial record of affinity and enmity relationships with fire in the conservation of the Cerrado biome. In the company is locals, hired to act as brigadiers and, more recently, as management
Of Love & Law
2017
94
'
RAI Basil Wright
Directed by
Hikaru Toda
.
Fumi and Kazu are partners in love and law; they run the first law firm in Japan set up by an openly gay couple. As lawyers driven by their own experience of being outsiders, they attract a
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
Opening Night Screening: Edge of the Knife
2018
100
'
Special Interest
Directed by
Gwaai Edenshaw
Helen Haig-Brown
.
We are delighted to open the 16th RAI Film Festival with Edge of the Knife, the recipient of this year's President's Medal. Edge of the Knife is the first feature film in the endangered Haida
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.
Orania
2012
94
'
Directed by
Tobias Lindner
.
Orania is situated in South Africa's barren Northern Cape province. All of its 800 inhabitants are white Afrikaners. They live here on private property which was bought in 1991. People of other
Southern Africa
Race / Racism / Antiracism
Collective / Community identity
Social Conflict
The Orchard Keepers
2014
24
'
Directed by
Bryony Dunne
.
Against the backdrop of political upheaval, an ancient network of orchards thrives in the mountains of the Sinai desert. Filmmaker Bryony Dunne shadows two Bedouins as they nurture their gardens and
North and Northeast Africa
Environment
Archaeobotany / Ethnobotany
Rural
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
Other Europe
2011
75
'
Directed by
Rossella Schillaci
.
What happens to African migrants once granted political refugee status? In Turin, a northern Italian city, an abandoned clinic has been squatted by more than 200 refugees since December 2008. Khaled,
Western Mediterranean
Migration
Urban
Squatter Settlements / Homelessness
Our Freedom
2017
52
'
Material Culture
Directed by
Laura Kuen
Yury Snigirev
.
The inhabitants of the village of Pungino live mostly beyond the reach of the Russian state. Here, in this remote rural location, they create their own sphere of personal freedom. This film explores
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.
Out of Focus
2013
37
'
Directed by
Adrian Arcé
Antonio Zirión
.
This is a collaborative documentary about arts, culture and everyday life inside a prison for minors. It was shot during a photography and video workshop with young inmates at the Juvenile Community
Central America
Children / Young people
Prison
Art / Artists / Artisans
Reflexivity
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
'
Conference
.
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
.
Paani: of women and water
2018
22
'
Student
Directed by
Costanza Burstin
.
Against the bleached sky of Rajasthan, we encounter the women of a small Muslim village as they engage in their work. Here, water binds their daily labour rituals: they collect and carry water in
South Asia
Environment
Food / Water
Gender Role and Identity
Rural
Everyday Life
Palimpsest of the Africa Museum
2019
69
'
Directed by
Matthias De Groof
.
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
.
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
Paltik Families
2016
60
'
RAI Basil Wright
Directed by
Jason Fox
Roel Arcilla
.
Set in the ten days leading up to mayoral elections in Danao, Philippines, Paltik Families follows the Arcillas, a family engaged in an illegal network of counterfeit American gun manufacturers, an
Panel 01: Indigenous Cinema: past, present and future
90
'
Conference
Convened by
Renato Athias
Rodrigo Lacerda
.
Full title - Indigenous Cinema: past, present and future Indigenous cinema is a very diverse and global category with more than fifty years of history. The panel seeks submissions to analyze the
Panel 02: How to frame a poem in a film with others?
90
'
Conference
Convened by
Roseline Lambert
Rachel McCrum
.
Full title - How to frame a poem in a film with others? Experiences of translation between different langages, poems, pictures and borders This panel aims to discuss the realisation of film-poems
Panel 03: Precarious landscapes (Part I)
90
'
Conference
Convened by
Toma Peiu
.
Full title: Precarious landscapes: forensics and decolonial futures This panel will be discussing the practicalities and ethics of producing images and sound in vulnerable landscapes. Work coming
Panel 03: Precarious landscapes (Part II)
90
'
Conference
Convened by
Toma Peiu
.
Full title- Precarious landscapes: forensics and decolonial futures This panel will be discussing the practicalities and ethics of producing images and sound in vulnerable landscapes. Work coming
Panel 04: Indigenous California
90
'
Conference
Convened by
Teri Brewer
Sue Giles
Wendy Teeter
.
Full title- Indigenous California: A Forum on Collaborative Archaeological and Ethnographic Visual Media Projects In recent years there have been an increasing number of productive visual media
Panel 05: Haptics and Visual Anthropology
90
'
Conference
Convened by
Aparna Sharma
Arine Kirstein Høgel
.
Full title - Haptics and Visual Anthropology: Audio-Visual Dialogues and Non-Verbal Forms of Knowledge Construction In this workshop, filmmakers and researchers Sharma and Høgel explore how
Panel 06: Expanding Ethnographic Film: Multimodality?
90
'
Conference
Convened by
Mark Westmoreland
Janine Prins
.
This panel seeks to investigate the expansion of ethnographic film practices in cases where a combination of different practice-based methodologies led to a multimodal approach. To what extent does
Panel 07: From the Field to the Screen (Part I)
90
'
Conference
Convened by
Angélica Cabezas Pino
Mattia Fumanti
.
Full title - From the Field to the Screen: Reflexive Practices and Collaborative Methods in Ethnographic Film. This panel includes contributions from visual anthropologists and filmmakers of
Panel 07: From the Field to the Screen (Part II)
90
'
Conference
Convened by
Angélica Cabezas Pino
Mattia Fumanti
.
Full title - From the Field to the Screen: Reflexive Practices and Collaborative Methods in Ethnographic Film This panel includes contributions from visual anthropologists and filmmakers of
Panel 08: Golden Wing, Silver Wings
90
'
Conference
Convened by
Gary Seaman
Zhuang Kongshao
.
Full title - Golden Wing, Silver Wings: Filmic representations of the autobiographical ethnography of Lin Yueh-hwa This panel will focus on the legacy of the famous Chinese anthropologist Lin
Panel 09: We Three: Apparatus, Subject, Society (Part I)
90
'
Conference
Convened by
Timothy P. A. Cooper
Vindhya Buthpitiya
.
Departing from the tripartite relationship between apparatus, subject, and society this panel invites reflection on issues of exclusion, consent, cinephobia, cinephilia, censorship, archival
Panel 09: We Three: Apparatus, Subject, Society (Part II)
90
'
Conference
Convened by
Timothy P. A. Cooper
Vindhya Buthpitiya
.
Departing from the tripartite relationship between apparatus, subject, and society this panel invites reflection on issues of exclusion, consent, cinephobia, cinephilia, censorship, archival
Panel 10: Youth-centred frames (Part I)
90
'
Conference
Convened by
Camilla Morelli
Flavia Kremer
.
Full title - Youth-centred frames: visual collaborations and participatory techniques in the research with young people This panel explores the use of participatory visual methods (film-making
Panel 10: Youth-centred frames (Part II)
90
'
Conference
Convened by
Camilla Morelli
Flavia Kremer
.
Full title - Youth-centred frames: visual collaborations and participatory techniques in the research with young people This panel explores the use of participatory visual methods (film-making and
Panel 11: The material mediation of the ‘non-normative’ body
90
'
Conference
Convened by
Cathy Greenhalgh
Catalin Brylla
.
This panel considers filmmakers who seek to work with and represent ‘non-normative’ bodies that are traditionally stereotyped and portrayed as “the other”. The aim is to explore innovative or
Panel 12: Transforming theory in and through film (Part I)
90
'
Conference
Convened by
Mattijs van de Port
Janine Prins
.
This panel seeks to expand theoretical ambitions in visual anthropology. We explore audio-visual modes of report that speak about existential issues via the minutiae of life-as-lived. We invite
Panel 12: Transforming theory in and through film (Part II)
90
'
Conference
Convened by
Mattijs van de Port
Janine Prins
.
This panel seeks to expand theoretical ambitions in visual anthropology. We explore audio-visual modes of report that speak about existential issues via the minutiae of life-as-lived. We invite
Pang Lhabsol: Sikkim's National Ritual of the Land and its Guardian Deities
2015
63
'
Directed by
Anna Balikci
.
Pang Lhabsol, Sikkim’s most important indigenous celebration, consists of a series of rituals and monastic dances held in honour of Dzonga, a mountain deity residing on Mt. Khangchendzonga, the
Paradise Bent. Boys will be Girls in Samoa
1999
51
'
Directed by
Heather Croall
.
Paradise Bent is a fascinating and entertaining film that tells the story of the Samoan fa'afafines: boys who are raised as girls and take on the domestic duties performed by women around the home,
Melanesia
Gender Role and Identity
Sex / Sexuality
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.
Pasajuego
2018
75
'
Material Culture
Directed by
Daniel Oliveras de Ita
.
“Pasajuego” is the name of the court where Oaxacans play the ancient indigenous ball game of Pelota Mixteca. Today more than two million people from the southern Mexican state of Oaxaca live in
Pedagogy & Public Anthropology: Legacies of Marshall's and Asch's Ethnographic Films
90
'
Seminar
Convened by
Nancy Lutkehaus
.
This panel reflects on the role of ethnographic film in pedagogy and public anthropology past, present, and future. It explores the introduction of ethnographic film into school curricula in the
People of Earth and Clouds
2016
65
'
Directed by
Matteo Robert Morales
Louise Hantson
.
People of Earth and Clouds is a documentary film that explores the role of music bands in indigenous communities of Oaxaca, Mexico and shows why "a village with no band, is a village with no
The People of the Wind
2015
59
'
Directed by
Abtin Sarabi
.
On the coast of the Persian Gulf, in the south of Iran, a ritual called Zâr is still practised today. This musical exorcism is said to heal all ‘victims of the wind.’ According to this popular,
Pepe
2004
23
'
Directed by
Juana Schlenker
.
Pepe is a Spanish immigrant who came to England more than forty years ago to work as a waiter. After working in several restaurants and hotels, he retired two years ago and now he fills his days with
British-Irish Isles
Migration
Elderly people
Persistence
2019
54
'
Main Competition
Directed by
Anne Huffschmid
Jan-Holger Hennies
.
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
Photo Wallahs
1991
60
'
Directed by
David MacDougall
Judith MacDougall
.
This film is an exploration of the cultural and personal meanings of photographs in a hill station in northern India. The ‘photo wallahs’ are the local photographers of Mussoorie, a town which
South Asia
Film / Photography / Mass media
Tourism / Travel / Pilgrimage
Pink Saris
2010
100
'
Directed by
Kim Longinotto
.
Pink saris are worn by the Gulabi Gang, a group of women vigilantes in Northern India. From the untouchable caste, they resist being condescended to as the lowest social class. They have a champion
South Asia
Gender Role and Identity
Resistance
Socioeconomic conditions
Playing with Nan
2012
88
'
Directed by
Dipesh Kharel
Asami Saito
.
Playing with Nan is the story of a Nepali young man who migrated to work in a Nepali restaurant in northern Japan. The film explores his daily life at work and his family at home, which reflects
South Asia
Central Asia and Far East
Labour
Migration
Socioeconomic conditions
The Poet's Salary
2008
59
'
Directed by
Eric Wittersheim
Alexandre Francois
.
For the first time in many years, on the little island of Motalava in Vanuatu, a new song will be composed in the island's ancestors’ language, the language of god Quat, and become part of the
Melanesia
Music / Ethnomusicology
Linguistics / Language
Informant-researcher relationship
Polka
1986
50
'
Directed by
Robert Boonzajer-Flaes
.
The film confronts the accordion music of Chicano immigrants in southern Texas with the traditional music of accordion players in Austria. Without making any final judgements on the ‘roots’ of
North America
Music / Ethnomusicology
Collective / Community identity
Positive Women: Heartache, Hope & Living with HIV
2017
30
'
Directed by
Rebecca Devaraj
.
In 2016, filmmaker Bex Devaraj and anthropologist Anne Lotter were given unique access to one of the biggest slums in Kampala, Uganda, where every day is a struggle for survival. In this intimate
Positive Youtubers – A Machinima Documentary
2017
15
'
Special Interest
Directed by
Leandro Goddinho
.
An experimental documentary made with footage material recorded from the computer desktop screen, about four Brazilians who have created Youtube Channels to talk openly about their HIV status. They
The Possibility of Spirits
2016
72
'
Directed by
Mattijs van de Port
.
What is it that you film when you film a spirit? I was brought up to believe that spirits do not exist. Years of research on an afro-Brazilian spirit possession cult taught me the limits of such
South America
Essay film
Religion / Belief / Faith
Reflexivity
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
.
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.
The Price of Memory
2014
83
'
Directed by
Karen Marks Mafundikwa
.
In 2002, Queen Elizabeth II visited Jamaica for her Golden Julibee Celebrations. While there she was petitioned by a group of Rastafari for slavery reparations. For Rastafari, reparations are linked
Caribbean Islands
British-Irish Isles
Colonialism / Postcolonialism
Political Activists
Pride of Place - Observations of lives of girls at a Public School
1976
59
'
Directed by
Dorothea Gazidis
Kimona Landseer
Kim Longinotto
.
A rarely seen classic, PRIDE OF PLACE was made as a first project while Longinotto was a student at England’s National School of Television and Film. As a teenager, the filmmaker had been condemned
British-Irish Isles
Children / Young people
Education / Knowledge Transmission
Gender Role and Identity
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
Processes
2016
23
'
Directed by
Adriana Ferrarese
.
Like every year, Corigliano Calabro, a small village in the south of Italy, celebrates Easter: from the investiture of a man to embody Jesus during a night procession, to the passionate debates for
South-East Europe
Religion / Belief / Faith
Festivals / Carnival
The Professional Foreigner
2009
60
'
Directed by
Rolf Husmann
.
Asen Balikci has been a leading figure in making ethnographic films for many decades. In a series of talks between Balikci and filmmaker Rolf Husmann in different locations, the life and work of Asen
Various
Film / Photography / Mass media
History of Anthropology
Public Figure
Prohibition of Grazing
2016
43
'
Directed by
Wenfei Li
.
Zhang Yuansheng is 64-year-old who was originally a camel herder. Having been born in poverty, as the age of 17 he began studying camel herding in the desert and acquiring the the life skills
Promenade
2016
31
'
RAI Basil Wright
Directed by
Philip Cartelli
.
Recorded during two years but organized around a single day, “Promenade” observes a series of movements and interactions on a renovated section of the Marseille waterfront. During the day a cast
Promise and Unrest
2010
79
'
Directed by
Alan Grossman
Áine O’Brien
.
Separated from her daughter Gracelle at 7 months, Noemi Barredo left the Philippines for work in Malaysia before arriving in Ireland in 2000. Filmed over a five-year period, 'Promise and Unrest' is
South-East Asia
British-Irish Isles
Family / Kinship
Labour
Migration
Linguistics / Language
Pulse
2015
26
'
Student
Directed by
Robin Petré
.
This poetic, highly sensorial film takes place on one of Europe’s largest deer farms, which is home to 1,500 red deer and their caretakers. The animals are essentially still wild. They were first
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,
Q2P
2006
55
'
Directed by
Paromita Vohra
.
Q2P is a film about toilets and the city. It sifts through the dream of Mumbai as a future Shanghai and searches for public toilets, watching who has to queue to pee. As the film observes who has
South Asia
Gender Role and Identity
Urban
Socioeconomic conditions
A Radio of One’s Own
2016
34
'
Directed by
Shweta Radhakrishnan
.
In the heart of the hills, in Rudraprayag, Uttarakhand, a frequency crackled and came to life on the 21st of September, 2013. Community radio, Mandakini ki Aawaz is Rudraprayag District’s first and
Rain in the Mirror
2012
48
'
Directed by
Nilanjan Bhattachary
Kanchan Mukhopadhayay
.
Dorji Bhutia, a Buddhist monk and a reputed mask-maker with supernatural powers of bringing or stopping rain chose a self-determined death at the age of eighty-six. Dorji leaves his mystic image
South Asia
Religion / Belief / Faith
Children / Young people
Education / Knowledge Transmission
Intergenerational relations
Raju and His Friends
1988
40
'
Directed by
Marcus Banks
.
This film is set in the city of Jamnagar, western India. The film focuses on the emotions, quality of life, and on duty. Raju’s friendship with different people, including the director, provide a
South Asia
Urban
Informant-researcher relationship
Life Story / Life History
The Raven and the Seagull
2018
70
'
RAI Basil Wright
Directed by
Lasse Lau
.
Denmark and Greenland have been tied together by a complex colonial relationship for centuries. Today, Greenlanders fight for autonomy, whilst acutely aware of their economic dependence on the
The Realm of Forgotten Existence
2015
28
'
Directed by
Piotr Piasta
.
While the images in the film reveal a landscape that often seems unchanged, the narrative reveals fragments of forgotten stories and traditions, skills and working lives no longer of value in
Rebel Objects
2020
70
'
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
Reclaiming Fiction
'
Workshop
Convened by
Isaac Marrero-Guillamón
.
This roundtable discussion will consider the politics and aesthetics of ethnofiction in relation to current debates in ethnographic film around collaboration and self-representation. Participating
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
The Red Bowmen
1981
50
'
Directed by
Chris Owen
.
In a remote part of the West Sepik Province of Papua New Guinea, the Umeda people eke out a difficult living from the sago swamps and primary rain forest that surround them. Until recently, these
Melanesia
Ritual
Religion / Belief / Faith
History of Anthropology
Remake of a summer
2017
96
'
Directed by
Magali Bragard
Séverine Enjolras
.
During a summer in Paris and it’s suburbs, two young directors attempt a remake of "Chroniques d’un été", fifty years after the cult film of Rouch and Morin. An offbeat portrait of
Researching marriage, filming Family Time
'
Talks
.
Resonating Burra - The Story of Burrakatha
2018
42
'
Intangible Culture
Directed by
Arjun Chavah
.
Burrakatha is a storytelling art form in the Telangana and Andhra regions of India. Emerging in the 1940s, amidst the struggle against feudal oppression and the Indian freedom movement, Burrakatha
Return of the Nightingales
2013
33
'
Directed by
John Baily
.
In 2010 Afghan musicologist Dr. Ahmad Sarmast opened the Afghanistan National Institute of Music (ANIM), a coeducational vocational music school in Kabul that teaches Afghan, Indian and Western
South Asia
Music / Ethnomusicology
Education / Knowledge Transmission
Children / Young people
Returning Home: Revival of a Bosnian Village
2001
48
'
Directed by
Tone Bringa
Peter Loizos
.
The film is the sequel to 'We are all Neighbours', the 1993 Granada Disappearing World film, about the breakdown of relations between Muslims and Croats as war overtakes their ethnically mixed
South-East Europe
War / Conflict / Reconciliation
Collective / Community identity
Refugees / Displaced populations
Ringtone
2014
30
'
Directed by
Jennifer Deger
Paul Wunungmurra
.
Yolngu Aboriginal families offer glimpses into their lives and relationships through their choice of ringtones. From ancestral clan songs to 80s hip hop artists and local gospel tunes, these songs
Australia
Indigenous peoples / First Nations peoples
Music / Ethnomusicology
Material Culture
Ritual Journeys
2011
75
'
Directed by
Dawa Lepcha
Anna Balikci
.
The film is an intimate portrait of Merayk, an 80 years old Lepcha shaman or Padim. Merayk lives with his family in Dzongu, a Lepcha reserve in North Sikkim. He performs healing rituals for
South Asia
Ritual
Shamans and Shamanism
Health / Health care / Healing
Rituals on TV
90
'
Seminar
Convened by
RAI / BBC / Swan Films
.
Several recent television productions have embraced ritual - a classic topic for anthropologists! These shows have sought to document, explore, and interrogate ritual as both spectacle and concept
River Nomads
2016
40
'
RAI Basil Wright
Directed by
Eric Komlavi Hahonou
.
http://www.rivernomads.dk/river-nomads-english/ password: ddc River Nomads addresses the complex relationship between migration, mobility and citizenship. This first part of a forthcoming trilogy
Rockerill: Rekindling the Fire
2011
53
'
Directed by
Yves Mora
.
Five years ago, one of the oldest industrial buildings of Charleroi- ‘les Forges de la Providence’- was saved from demolition being brought by two citizens: Thierry Camuy and Mika Hell. Together
Western Europe
Alternative culture
Art / Artists / Artisans
Room 11, Ethiopia Hotel
2006
23
'
Directed by
Itsushi Kawase
.
The film recounts the life of children living on the street in Gondar, Ethiopia, by witnessing the interaction between two children and the filmmaker. The entire film was shot in the room of Ethiopia
North and Northeast Africa
Children / Young people
Squatter Settlements / Homelessness
Informant-researcher relationship
Reflexivity
Rough Aunties
2008
103
'
Directed by
Kim Longinotto
.
Jackie, Mildred, Eureka and Thuli are the women behind Bobbi Bear, a nonprofit organization based in Durban, South Africa, that counsels sexually abused children and works to bring their abusers to
Southern Africa
Socioeconomic conditions
Children / Young people
Development projects
Roza's Song
2016
45
'
Directed by
Lowri Rees
.
Roza's song gives a unique insight into the Norwegian Roma community. The film follows Roza and her dream of making the Norwegian Roma’s first CD. The congregation and the music means a lot for
Runaway
2001
87
'
Directed by
Kim Longinotto
Ziba Mir-Hosseini
.
This film is set in a refuge for girls in Tehran and follows the stories of five girls who come here. These girls, in leaving a situation that has become intolerable, show incredible courage and
Middle and Near East
Children / Young people
Social Change
Gender Role and Identity
SOLITARY LAND
2017
107
'
Directed by
Tiziana Panizza
.
A researcher found 32 documentaries filmed on Easter Island almost a century ago. They contain images of the island’s rock sculptures, the Moai, but they barely show the island’s inhabitants,
Sacred Water
2016
54
'
Directed by
Olivier Jourdain
.
Guided by Vestine, an extravagant star of radio nights, the film discovers Rwandan sexuality in search of the water that gushes out of the female body. Sacred Water reveals with humor and spontaneity
Sailing a Sinking Sea
2015
65
'
Directed by
Olivia Wyatt
.
Sailing A Sinking Sea explores the culture of the Moken people of Myanmar and Thailand. The Moken are a nomadic seafaring community and one of the smallest ethnic groups in Asia. Spending eight
Sakhisona
2017
27
'
Intangible Culture
Directed by
Prantik Basu
.
Near Mogulmari in West Bengal lies a mound known locally as Sakhisona. Stories about it are interwoven with myth and still sung by local musicians. A dig nearby recently uncovered the remains of a
Salma
2013
90
'
Directed by
Kim Longinotto
.
When Salma, a young Muslim girl in a south Indian village, was 13 years old, her family locked her up for 25 years, forbidding her to study and forcing her into marriage. During that time, words were
South Asia
Gender Role and Identity
Social Norms
Marriage
Art / Artists / Artisans
Sangharsh. Strife.
2018
105
'
Directed by
Nicolas Jaoul
.
Shot between 1997 and 2001, Sangharsh takes us deep into the lifeworld of Dalit Panther activists in the late 1990s Uttar Pradesh. By following three activists, one is taken on a rough trip in the
Sarah Pink
2023
90
'
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;
Scenes of Afghan Music: London, Kabul, Hamburg, Dublin
2007
97
'
Directed by
John Baily
.
Scenes of Afghan Music is Part IV of 'A Quartet of Afghan Music Films', made in the author’s personal “fieldwork movie” style. It reveals the diversity of music and dance practices in the
Middle and Near East
Music / Ethnomusicology
Migration
Collective / Community identity
SchoolScapes
2007
77
'
Directed by
David MacDougall
.
Inspired by the cinema of Lumière and the ideas of the 20th century Indian thinker Jiddu Krishnamurti, David MacDougall follows up the Doon School Quintet, his series of films about a traditional
South Asia
Children / Young people
Education / Knowledge transmission
Film / Photography / Mass media
The Scorpion is me - A centennial family dance group
2017
95
'
Directed by
Juan Sebastián Alvarez
.
Santos Ramírez “Santico”, the current 40 year old artistic director, hides behind the Carnival’s atmosphere, as he is fighting against all odds to keep El Alacrán's poison alive. "El
Scratches on Celluloid
2018
53
'
Directed by
Vindhya Buthpitiya
Timothy Cooper
.
In the rapidly changing urban landscapes of Jaffna and Lahore, the social and public space of cinema halls are recognisable for their longevity and resilience amid insurgency, war, and
Sea Boundary
2012
55
'
Directed by
Rosella Schillaci
.
The film depicts the daily struggle of fishermen to earn a living in a harsh physical environment that brings out the social and economic tensions of modern society. Manning the Priamo are Cola, the
Western Mediterranean
Labour
Hunting / Gathering / Fishing
Socioeconomic conditions
Migration
The Season of Vodoun
2016
45
'
Directed by
Ran Muratsu
.
This film depicts ceremonies of Vodoun, deities of ancestors and natures spread in the Gulf of Guinea, and its relationship with national politics. The shooting was held in the period of Vodoun in
The Secret of the Caminanti
2016
63
'
Directed by
Rita Mirabella
Giuseppe Tumino
.
The history of the Caminanti is an unwritten story of an autochthonous community living 'in hiding'. We know barely anything about their history, which has only been transmitted orally throughout
Seed and Earth
1989
36
'
Directed by
Lina Fruzzetti
Alfred Guzzetti
Ned Johnston
Ákos Östör
.
Seed on Earth is a film about everyday life in rural Bangladesh (village of Janta, near Bishnupur town). It follows the daily schedule of two families and observes the complementary and difference of
South Asia
Rural
Family / Kinship
Gender Role and Identity
Sent Away Boys
2016
43
'
Directed by
Harjant Gill
.
What happens to families in the absence of sons? What happens to land in the absence of farmers? What happens to communities in the absence of men? Sent Away Boys weaves together stories of
Sermiligaag 65°54'N, 36°22'W
2008
64
'
Directed by
Anni Seitz
Sophie Elixhauser
.
The people of East Greenland inhabit a small string of coastal land at the edge of the biggest island of the world. Long winters have always shaped daily life here, a life that has gone within a few
North America
Rural
Social Change
Environment
A Sheepherder's Homecoming
1996
40
'
Directed by
Allen Moore
Louis Werner
.
This film documents a migrant worker’s experiences as a herder on a Nevada sheep ranch who then returns to his family in Mexico after a long absence to renew ties and find a job at home. It
North America
Central America
Migration
Labour
Shepherds in the Cave
2016
87
'
Material Culture
Directed by
Anthony Grieco
.
An international team of art restorers, archaeologists and volunteers begin work on the restoration of religious frescoes inside a network of ancient caves. Faced with local bureaucratic challenges
Western Mediterranean
Archaeology
Herding
Art / Artists / Artisans
Law and Legislation / Bureaucracy
Shinjuku Boys
1997
54
'
Directed by
Kim Longinotto
Jano Williams
.
A film about love and gender. This film is set in the New Marilyn night club in Tokyo where all the hosts are women who have decided to live as men. They make their living by working in a club with
Central Asia and Far East
Gender Role and Identity
Sex / Sexuality
Love
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
Shorts
.
Ritual encounters with divinity
Shorts 03 - Pleasure
76
'
Shorts Programme
Shorts
.
Ground-breaking shorts exploring the world of sex and pleasure [NSFW! Contains adult content]
Shorts 04 - Migration at the crossroads/1
62
'
Shorts Programme
Shorts
.
Questioning the representation of migrant experience
Shorts 05 - Migration at the crossroads/2
71
'
Shorts Programme
Shorts
.
Questioning the representation of migrant experience
Shorts 06 - Animals | Humans | Ritual
97
'
Shorts Programme
Shorts
.
Close encounters with bees, cockrels, fish
Shorts 07 - Sparks!
76
'
Shorts Programme
Shorts
.
Experimental short form pushing the boundaries of ethnographic film
Shorts 08 - Livelihoods
90
'
Shorts Programme
Shorts
.
Portraits of people working in rural settings
Shorts 09 - Indigenous knowledge
110
'
Shorts Programme
Shorts
.
Teaching the next generation
Shorts 10 - Environmental crisis
69
'
Shorts Programme
Shorts
.
People coping with the consequeces of climate change, pollution and waste
Sifinja - The Iron Bride
2009
70
'
Directed by
Valerie Haensch
.
A film about mobility, human creativity, and technology in a Sudanese truck community. The English Bedford-Lorry was introduced to Sudan in the late 1960s. Since then, local craftsmen technically
North and Northeast Africa
Infrastructure / Transport
Material Culture
Art / Artists / Artisans
Silas
2017
80
'
Directed by
Anjali Nayar
.
Liberian activist Silas Siakor is a tireless crusader against illegal logging and corruption. Through this focus on one small country -- “Silas” warns of the power of politics, features the role
Silk, Muthappar and VHS: Portraits from South India
1997
63
'
Directed by
Ulrich Grossenbacher
Damaris Luethi
.
The documentary, filmed during ethnographic field research, shows three portraits of ‘ordinary’ personalities — Mala, a young weaver sharing a one-bedroom house with nine siblings; Santa Cruz,
South Asia
Labour
Everyday Life
Film / Photography / Mass media
Since the Company Came
2001
52
'
Directed by
Russel Hawkins
.
Set in the South Pacific, in a remote Solomon Islands village, 'Since the Company Came' is the story of a community coming to terms with social, cultural and ecological disintegration. When village
Melanesia
Land Rights
Indigenous peoples / First Nations peoples
Social Conflict
Socioeconomic conditions
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
Singing "Bird": Carrying on the Kumeyaay Tradition
2018
30
'
Directed by
Teri Brewer
.
The Kumeyaay, an indigenous people of Southern California and Northern Mexico still perform more than a dozen ancient song cycles kept alive through a process of apprenticeship and study which can
Singing Pictures - Women Painters of Naya
2005
45
'
Directed by
Lina Fruzzetti
Ákos Östör
.
For generations the Patua (Chitrakara) communities of West Bengal have been painters and singers of stories depicted in scrolls. The film follows the daily lives of Muslim Patua women from Naya
South Asia
Material Culture
Art / Artists / Artisans
Music / Ethnomusicology
Sisters in Law
2005
104
'
Directed by
Kim Longinotto
Florence Ayisi
.
Six year old Manka has run away from home, fleeing her abusive aunt. Sonita has daringly accused her neighbor of rape. Amina has decided to end her brutal marriage by taking her husband to court. Set
West Africa
Law and Legislation / Bureaucracy
Gender Role and Identity
Children / Young people
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
So'o: Life and death of a cow in Puerto Casado
2016
24
'
Directed by
Valentina Bonifacio
.
In the golden age of Puerto Casado, in Paraguay, at least eight cows were slaughtered every day to feed its population of 6,000 people. Eating "asado" (roasted meat) is still at the core of
Socotra, the Island of Djinns
2016
64
'
RAI Basil Wright
Directed by
Jordi Esteva
.
The film is the story of a journey across the island of Socotra in the Indian Ocean, off the coast of Yemen. Socotra is isolated during the monsoon season, when it is impossible to land on it. This
Middle and Near East
Myths / Fairy tales
Nomads and Nomadism
Tourism / Travel / Pilgrimage
Trade
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
Some Alien Creatures
2005
74
'
Directed by
David MacDougall
.
A film about the famous experimental, co-educational boarding school in South India, the Rishi Valley School, founded by the influential Indian thinker Krishnamurti. In this film about a progressive
South Asia
Children / Young people
Gender Role and Identity
Education / Knowledge Transmission
The Song Collector
2016
54
'
Directed by
Erik Koto
.
In the 1960s Morup Namgyal sparked a social movement to preserve the traditional Himalayan culture of his homeland. What Morup could not imagine at that time was that he would ultimately embrace
Sons of Haji Omar
1978
58
'
Directed by
Timothy Asch
Asen Balikci
David Newman
Richard Sorensen
.
Haji Omar and his three sons belong to the Lakenkhel, a Pashtun tribal group in northeastern Afghanistan. Concentrating within one family, the film draw sharp, colourful portraits of the protagonists
Middle and Near East
Everyday Life
Nomads and Nomadism
Herding
Sons of the Moon
1984
25
'
Directed by
Frank Speed
Deirdre LaPin
.
In isolated mountain hamlets in Nigeria’s Jos Plateau the Ngas have traditionally observed the movements of the moon in the night sky. The moon is a key symbol in Ngas cosmology, believed to
West Africa
Religion / Belief / Faith
Music / Ethnomusicology
Everyday Life
Ritual
Sophia and Her People
1985
35
'
Directed by
Peter Loïzos
.
Sofia and her family lost their village home in 1975 when Turkey invaded Cyprus. The film, mainly set in Nicosia in 1983, shows the pressures of refugee economic recovery through shift work in a
South-East Europe
Refugees / Displaced populations
Social Change
Family / Kinship
Southeast London Ethnography - Three Student Films: Anglesea Road; The Good Ol' Days; Talk of Trade
2007
13
'
Directed by
Elhum Shakerifar
Ed Owles
Jamie Taylor
.
These 3 films on Southeast London were made by GCC college students who took a course in anthropology & film. ANGLESEA ROAD: Situated in Woolwich, South East London, Anglesea Road is a small
British-Irish Isles
Urban
Specialised Technique
2018
6
'
Directed by
Onyeka Igwe
.
William Sellers and the Colonial Film Unit developed a framework for colonial cinema, this included slow edits, no camera tricks and minimal camera movement. Hundreds of films were created in
Steel Lives
2005
45
'
Directed by
Massimiliano Mollona
.
The anthropologist spent several months working as unskilled labourer alongside Sheffield steelworkers at Morris for his PhD. This film is a look into the working lives of men who earn a living in
British-Irish Isles
Labour
Socioeconomic conditions
Collective / Community identity
Still Birth of the Commune-head
2015
80
'
Directed by
Qiao Wu
.
Each Floral-belt Dai village has a “Commune-head” who takes charge of annual collective ceremonies. The Commune-head is picked out through a God election ritual. All candidates’ clothes should
Stockman's Strategy
1984
52
'
Directed by
David MacDougall
Judith MacDougall
.
A film which explores the philosophy of teaching and learning of Sunny Bancroft, manager of an Aboriginal-run cattle station in northern New South Wales. It also tells the story of Shane Gordon, a
Australia
Indigenous peoples / First Nations peoples
Animals
Education / Knowledge transmission
The Storehouses of the World
2018
27
'
Directed by
Timothy Cooper
Abeera Arif-Bashir
.
In the Pakistani city of Lahore an audiocassette recorded decades ago deep among the crowd at a ritual mourning procession continues to circulate in the neighbourhood in which it was first made.
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
The Storyteller
1990
50
'
Student
Directed by
John Paul Davidson
.
Unaware of the written word until the 1950s, the Waura tribe who live in the headwaters of the Xingu river in Brazil still practise the art of storytelling. Tribal storyteller Aruta recounts one of
South America
Indigenous peoples / First Nations peoples
Dance / Theatre / Performance
Religion / Belief / Faith
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
Sundanese Culture Alive
1988
46
'
Directed by
Jean Hellwig
.
Jaipongan is a new style of music and dancing which was ‘invented’ about a decade ago on Western Java, Indonesia. Drawing on more classical Javanese music and taking elements from Japanese and
South-East Asia
Music / Ethnomusicology
Dance / Theatre / Performance
Sunday
2018
25
'
Special Interest
Directed by
Paulo Mendel
Vitor Grunvald
.
A colourful and noisy encounter with Família Stronger, a LGBTQIA+ collective in the neighbourhood of Jardim Nazaré, on São Paulo’s periphery. Across a split screen, Sunday portrays a single day
Sunny and the Dark Horse
1986
86
'
Directed by
David MacDougall
Judith MacDougall
.
A true story of a country family’s gradual involvement and growing passion for ‘picnic racing’. Sunny Bancroft is an Aboriginal cattle-station manager in New South Wales. With his
Australia
Rural
Indigenous peoples / First Nations peoples
Animals
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
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
TB in Town 2
2017
46
'
Directed by
Dr. Lianne (A.L.) Cremers
.
This film tells the story of patients with tuberculosis living in Town 2, one of the biggest and most violent townships of South Africa. Treatment is available for free and tuberculosis patients can
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
TRIBAL JUSTICE
2017
87
'
Directed by
ANNE MAKEPEACE
.
TRIBAL JUSTICE is a feature documentary about a little known, under-reported but effective criminal justice reform movement in America today: the efforts of tribal courts to create alternative
Tablas and Drum Machines: Afghan Music in California
2001
58
'
Directed by
John Baily
.
Ethnomusicologist John Baily visits Fremont, California, the new home of the large community of exiled Afghans. He is joined by Kabuli master-musician, Ustad Asif Mahmoud, who plans to open a small
North America
Music / Ethnomusicology
Education / Knowledge transmission
Refugees / Displaced populations
Tabom in Bahia
2017
52
'
Directed by
Juan Diego Diaz
Nilton Pereira
.
There is a small community in Ghana who identify as Brazilians. Their name is the Tabom. They are the descendants of former enslaved Africans and creoles who resettled from Bahia to Ghana during the
South America
West Africa
Music / Ethnomusicology
Collective / Community identity
Memory
Migration
Popular Culture
Race / Racism / Antiracism
Tourism / Travel / Pilgrimage
Takeover
1980
90
'
Directed by
David MacDougall
Judith MacDougall
.
On March 13, 1978 the Queensland Government announced its intention to take over management of Aurukun Aboriginal Reserve from the Uniting Church. The people of Aurukun complained bitterly, fearing
Australia
Indigenous peoples / First Nations peoples
Resistance
Land Rights
Social Conflict
Tango, Not-For-Export
2016
53
'
Directed by
Jennie Gubner
.
This collection of 4 short films evokes everyday experiences of music making in the contemporary neighborhood tango scenes of Buenos Aires. They were made as stand alone pieces that co-exist on an
Tara's footprint
2018
70
'
Intangible Culture
Directed by
Georgina Barreiro
.
Tara's Footprint skilfully conjures the atmosphere of Khechuperi, a village in the Himalayas in north eastern India. Eschewing standard exposition the film follows four young siblings as they go
South Asia
Children / Young people
Dance / Theatre / Performance
Everyday Life
Music / Ethnomusicology
Religion / Belief / Faith
Rural
Tayuban: Dancing the Spirit in Java
1996
30
'
Directed by
Felicia Hughes-Freeland
.
Once a year a ritual is held in a Javanese village. After a distribution of food, men dance with professional female dancers. Their allegedly sexual ethos makes these ‘tayuban’ unacceptable as
South-East Asia
Ritual
Dance / Theatre / Performance
Sex / Sexuality
Gender Role and Identity
Tempus de Baristas
1993
100
'
Directed by
David MacDougall
.
This film depicts the characters, and social dilemmas of three generations of Sardinian mountain shepherds. Although born roughly 20 years apart, Franchiscu (62), his son Pietro (17) and their
Western Europe
Herding
Social Change
Family / Kinship
Rural
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
Thank You For The Rain
2017
87
'
RAI Basil Wright
Directed by
Julia Dahr
.
Over the last five years Kisilu, a smallholder farmer in Kenya, has used his camera to capture his family life, his village and the impacts of climate change. He has filmed floods, droughts and
Theatre Girls
1979
57
'
Directed by
Kim Longinotto
Claire Pollack
.
The “Theatre Girls Club” is a hostel for homeless, destitute and alcoholic women in Soho, London. It is run by six paid workers and it is the only hostel in London which takes any women at any
British-Irish Isles
Squatter Settlements / Homelessness
Socioeconomic conditions
Gender Role and Identity
There is Nothing Wrong with my Uncle
2012
78
'
Directed by
Sylvie Bringas
Dul Johnson
.
Nigerian writer Dul Johnson returns to Tarok land to observe the local death rituals and the record of the Tarok ways of dealing with grief and honoring departed. This film provides a rare and
West Africa
Death
Religion / Belief / Faith
Ritual
These Objects, Those Memories
2015
29
'
Directed by
Roger Horn
.
"These Objects, Those Memories" is a split-screen film focused on material culture, specifically, that of three long-term Zimbabwean female migrants currently residing in Cape Town, South
Thinking like a Mountain
2018
91
'
RAI Basil Wright
Directed by
Alexander Hick
.
The Arhuacos are the guardians of the forest and the ice of Colombia’s highest mountain - the Sierra Nevada de Santa Marta. This indigenous community draw a sustained and singular spirituality from
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
This is My Face
2018
57
'
Student
Directed by
Angélica Cabezas Pino
.
In Chile, people living with HIV fear stigma, and often conceal their condition and remain silent about what they are going through. This is My Face explores what happens when a range of men living
South America
LGBTQI*
Participatory / Collaborative methods
Health / Health care / Healing
Gender Role and Identity
Film / Photography / Mass media
Memory
Life Story / Life History
Art / Artists / Artisans
Those Who Come, Will Hear
2017
77
'
Directed by
Simon Plouffe
.
Those Who Come, Will Hear proposes a unique meeting with the speakers of several indigenous languages of Quebec – all threatened with extinction. The film starts with the discovery of these unsung
Those Who Jump
2016
80
'
Special Interest
Directed by
Estephan Wagner
Moritz Siebert
Abou Bakar Sidibé
.
In northern Morocco, lies the Spanish enclave of Melilla: Europe on African Land. On the mountain above, live over a thousand hopeful African migrants, watching the border fence. Abou from Mali is
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
Three Horsemen
1982
50
'
Directed by
David MacDougall
Judith MacDougall
.
Bob Massey Pootchemunka has spent most of his life as a stockman and drover. Now over 75, his ambition is to see an all-Aboriginal cattle station operating at Ti-Tree on his traditional clan land.
Australia
Indigenous peoples / First Nations peoples
Herding
Animals
Land Rights
Tigers Apprentice
1998
57
'
Directed by
M. Trinh Nguyen
.
Tiger's Apprentice is the story of M. Trinh Nguyen's journey to her native Vietnam. She observes and documents her great-uncle's folk medicine practices treating many patients and making his
South-East Asia
Health / Health care / Healing
Archaeobotany / Ethnobotany
Time to Look at Girls: Migrants in Bangladesh and Ethiopia
2015
31
'
Directed by
Marco Speroni
.
More migrants move within their own country or region than migrate to Northern countries. Bangladesh and Ethiopia have been experiencing increasingly high rates of migration of adolescent girls to
Tindaya Variations
2018
40
'
Special Interest
Directed by
Isaac Marrero-Guillamon
.
The mountain of Tindaya (Fuerteventura, Canary Islands) is more than a mountain. It was a sacred site for the indigenous people of Fuerteventura; later, its rock was quarried and sold for ornamental
Western Mediterranean
Archival material / Museum displays
Art / Artists / Artisans
Environment
Material Culture
Indigenous peoples / First Nations peoples
Archaeology
Tingvong: A Lepcha Village in Sikkim
2005
60
'
Directed by
Dawa T Lepcha
Anna Balikci-Denjongpa
Asen Balikci
.
The film illustrates the changes the Lepcha of the Dzongu reserve, North Sikkim, have been through in the last 60 years. From the 1940s, the Lepcha of Tingvong village gradually abandoned hunting,
South Asia
Social Change
Religion / Belief / Faith
Agriculture / Farming
To Get That Country
1978
70
'
Directed by
David MacDougall
.
An important historical film of events surrounding early meetings of the Northern Land Council in 1977, where uranium mining, land rights and Aboriginal leadership were the key issues.
Australia
Indigenous peoples / First Nations peoples
Land Rights
Social Organisation
To Live With Herds
1972
90
'
Directed by
David MacDougall
.
The Jie are semi-nomadic pastoral people living in North-eastern Uganda, who are striving to maintain their way of life in the face of unsympathetic government policy, and, at the time of filming, a dry-season famine.
East Africa
Nomads and Nomadism
Disasters
Law and Legislation / Bureaucracy
To Work is to Grow
2015
32
'
Directed by
Léa Klaue
.
Gerald, Ruben, Neysa and their friends are children and adolescents who work as wheelbarrow pusher at a market and as prayer boys in a cemetery in the region of Cochabamba in Bolivia. With their own
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
Together Apart (MA Thesis)
2018
57
'
Directed by
Maren Wickwire
.
Carren has spent most of her adult life apart from her children. When her daughter Guil Ann arrives on the island of Cyprus to join her as domestic worker, unexpected events lead to Carren’s
Together as One
2013
39
'
Directed by
Kilian Lamtur Tanlaka
.
Nso' is the biggest kingdom of the Western Grassfields and an ethnic group in the northeast corner of Cameroon’s northwest region. Its capital Kumbo is where the ruler (Fon) lives. The Nso'
Central Africa
Archaeobotany / Ethnobotany
Collective / Community identity
Inter-religious relations
A Town in Sicily
2015
120
'
Directed by
Toni de Bromhead
.
Castellammare is a 'high-density Mafia' seaside town. Local government is infiltrated, its economy is stagnant and there is no future for its youth. A group of angry young Sicilians now wish to
South-East Europe
Political Activists
Tracing Roots: A Weaver's Journey
2015
26
'
Material Culture
Directed by
Ellen Frankenstein
.
This film follows master Haida weaver Delores Churchill on a journey to replicate the spruce root hat found with Kwäday Dän Ts’ìnchi, also known as the Long Ago Person Found. The remains of the
Tracking the Pale Fox: Studies on the Dogon
1983
48
'
Directed by
Luc de Heusch
.
This film tells with verve and a touch of self-irony the history of research on the Dogon since the famous 1931 expedition of Marcel Griaule. The film establishes the original expedition in the
West Africa
History of Anthropology
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 Transfer of Power
1986
22
'
Directed by
Judith MacDougall
David MacDougall
.
Replacing the engine in an old car is a familiar rural task, but how people go about it differs. For these Aboriginal men in New South Wales, it’s an occasion for affirming continuing
Australia
Indigenous peoples / First Nations peoples
Education / Knowledge transmission
Infrastructure / Transport
Transfiction
2007
58
'
Directed by
Johannes Sjøberg
.
Transfiction explores 'ethnofiction' - an experimental ethnographic documentary film style in which the participants collaborate with the filmmaker to act out their own and others' life experiences
South America
Reflexivity
Film / Photography / Mass media
Gender Role and Identity
Sex / Sexuality
LGBTQI*
Ethnofiction
Travel
2016
63
'
Special Interest
Directed by
Nick Mai
.
(This version of the film is edited using a single screen. For the split screen version see 'Travel - double screen version'). Joy left Nigeria to help her family after her father’s death. She
Western Europe
Sex / Sexuality
Labour
Migration
Ethnofiction
Informant-researcher relationship
Reflexivity
Travel (double screen)
2016
63
'
Directed by
Nick Mai
.
(This version of the film uses a split-screen device throughout. For the single screen version see 'Travel'). Joy left Nigeria to help her family after her father’s death. She knew that she was
Western Europe
Sex / Sexuality
Labour
Migration
Ethnofiction
Reflexivity
Treasured Moments
2016
33
'
Student
Directed by
Ravi Hart Lloyd
.
This is the personal story of a boy who grew up mixed in every aspect of his life, his parents, where he was from, his race. The black kid who thought that he was white. The white kid who thought
Caribbean Islands
North America
Family / Kinship
Race / Racism / Antiracism
Collective / Community identity
Film / Photography / Mass media
Trends in Ethnographic Film-making in China
'
Workshop
Convened by
Gary Seaman
Paul Henley
.
This workshop will assess contemporary ethnographic filmmaking in academic contexts in China and will include presentations by the following scholars. (Further presentations may be added later). All
Trends in Ethnographic Film-making in Latin America (I)
'
Workshop
Convened by
Carlos Flores
Angela Torresan
Antonio Zirion
.
This workshop will offer a space for Latin American researchers to discuss methodological and theoretical issues around their own ethnographic film-making or works of other relevant film-makers. The
Trends in Ethnographic Film-making in Latin America (II)
'
Workshop
Convened by
Carlos Flores
Angela Torresan
Antonio Zirion
.
This workshop will be a continuation of the workshop offered at 9:00 am on Thursday 30 March (Cinema 2, Watershed). It will offer a space for Latin American researchers to discuss methodological
Trobriand Cricket: An Ingenious Response to Colonialism
1974
50
'
Directed by
Gary Kildea
Jerry Leach
.
The film documents the transformation by the Trobriand Islanders of the game of cricket, first introduced by British missionaries into a highly distinctive political ritual. Shot in 1973-1974,
Melanesia
Sport
Colonialism / Postcolonialism
Political Activists
The Trobriand Islanders
1952
58
'
Directed by
Harry Powell
.
During his field work in the region of Omarakana, H.A.Powell filmed various sequences from which the film is assembled. In spite of the technical handicaps under which he was operating — shooting
Melanesia
Everyday Life
True Body
2016
5
'
Directed by
Louise Hollerup Christensen
Shannon Turner
Maja Rosenlund Byriel
.
What do you do to your body hair, and what does your body hair do to you? True Body is a performative documentary that draws the viewer into a debate about gender norms and cultural body practices.
Twenty Two
2016
95
'
RAI Basil Wright
Directed by
Guo Ke
.
The film focuses on Chinese ‘comfort women’ during World War II. At the time of filming, only 22 of the 200,000 Chinese victims forced into sexual slavery remained alive. Quietly humanistic, this
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:
Uma: a water crisis in Bolivia
2020
76
'
Directed by
Ana 𝗟𝗹𝗮𝗰𝗲𝗿
.
Uma: a water crisis in Bolivia tells the story of three Andean indigenous communities in the highlands of Bolivia who are fighting to protect their water from diversion and contamination amid a
South America
Environment
Food / Water
Gender Role and Identity
Indigenous peoples / First Nations peoples
Land Rights
Political Activists
Resistance
Rural
Social Conflict
Uncanny Strangers
2009
46
'
Directed by
David Picard
.
Uncanny Strangers has been filmed in a fishing village in the South-West of Madagascar. Through a series of everyday life episodes the film provides insight into the relationships between the
East Africa
Tourism / Travel / Pilgrimage
Development projects
Environment
Under the Men's Tree
1973
15
'
Directed by
David MacDougall
Judith MacDougall
.
At Jie cattle camps in Uganda men often gather under a special tree to make leather and wooden goods and talk, relax, and sleep. This brilliant ethnographic documentary by renowned filmmakers David
East Africa
Infrastructure / Transport
Informant-researcher relationship
Reflexivity
Under the Palace Wall
2013
53
'
Directed by
David MacDougall
.
From the 16th century the Indian village of Delwara in southern Rajasthan was ruled as a principality of the kingdom of Mewar. Its palace, which overlooks the village, is now a luxury hotel - a
South Asia
Education / Knowledge transmission
Children / Young people
Tourism / Travel / Pilgrimage
Undercover in Underwear
2016
19
'
Student
Directed by
Diane Agatha
.
The Internet provides an infinite place of freedom where self, mind and body are dislocated. We are able to reinvent and present ourselves the way we want. It is in this world that Circle, my alter
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.
Unity through Culture
2011
69
'
Directed by
Christian Suhr
Ton Otto
.
Soanin Killangit is determined to unite the people and attract international tourism through the revival of culture on Baluan Island, Manus, Papua New Guinea in the South Pacific. He organizes the
Melanesia
Festivals / Carnival
Social Conflict
Collective / Community identity
Unity: Dress-scapes of Accra
2016
37
'
Directed by
Mara Lin Visser
.
This is a film about African fashion in the capital of Ghana. African printed fabrics seem to making a comeback in the fashion system of Accra. While following Allan, a fashion designer and his wife
West Africa
Trade
Material Culture
Art / Artists / Artisans
Unravel
2012
14
'
Directed by
Meghna Gupta
.
'Unravel' follows the Western worlds least wanted clothes, on a journey across Northern India, from sea to industrial interior. They get sent to Panipat, a sleepy town and the only place in the world
South Asia
Labour
Material Culture
Collective / Community identity
Unwritten Letters
2020
59
'
Directed by
Max Bloching
Abd Alrahman Dukmak
.
Abd is a 24-year-old Syrian who took part in the early days of the 2011 revolution and now lives in Padova, Italy. Together with his German friend Max he is working on a film called Unwritten
South-East Europe
Middle and Near East
Migration
Refugees / Displaced populations
Participatory / Collaborative methods
Life Story / Life History
Ustad Rahim
2008
55
'
Directed by
John Baily
.
Shot in the city of Heart, western Afghanistan 1994, in the period between the fall of the last leftist government and the coming of the Taliban, this is a portrait film of an outstanding musician,
South Asia
Music / Ethnomusicology
Education / Knowledge Transmission
Personal Narrative
Uzu
2015
27
'
Directed by
Gaspard Kuentz
.
Held every October in the city of Matsuyama, the Dogo Autumn Festival is one of the most violent religious festivals celebrated in Japan. Eight teams of men carrying massive portable wood shrines
Central Asia and Far East
Ritual
Gender Role and Identity
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
Vasile Nedea
2009
43
'
Directed by
Sjoerd van Grootheest
.
The film tells the story of Vasile Nedea, a Romanian gypsy musician an Amsterdam. Due to his former illegal status there have been times in which he was forced to show his skills whilst busking the
Western Europe
Travellers / Roma
Music / Ethnomusicology
The Veil Unveiled
2004
29
'
Directed by
Vanessa Langer
.
In Yemen, the land of Queen Saba, a wide variety of veils can be found. In the capital Sana’a, the women, although at first sight appearing to all be wearing but black, distinguish themselves one
Middle and Near East
Gender Role and Identity
Material Culture
Religion / Belief / Faith
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
Violão-Canção: Brazilian Soul
2016
30
'
Directed by
Chico Saraiva
Rose Satiko Hikiji
.
Following his artistic path, Chico Saraiva meets up with 7 master musicians who share their experiences: João Bosco, Sérgio Assad, Paulo César Pinheiro, Paulo Bellinati, Marco Pereira, Luiz Tatit
Virtual me: Gender and Identity in World of Warcraft
2013
11
'
Directed by
Trent Monahan
Sarah Prothero
Jennifer Torson
.
'Virtual Me' examines the experiences of players of the online game World of Warcraft, focusing specifically on their experience and understanding of issues surrounding gender and identity within
North America
Gender Role and Identity
Animation
Internet
Visible Silence
2015
43
'
Directed by
Ruth Gumnit
.
Visible Silence offers a rare glimpse into the lives of Thai tomboys (toms), ladies (dees), and lesbians striving for recognition and acceptance in a traditional Buddhist society. The film highlights
Visual Anthropology Interventions and Climate Change
'
Workshop
Convened by
Mike Poltorak
.
**Interested participants are invited to submit proposals for presentations to M.S.Poltorak@kent.ac.uk** There is a recognised disconnect between publicly available scientific information on
The Visual Scholarship Initiative
'
Talks
.
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
Visual Worlds of Difference
'
Workshop
Convened by
Raminder Kaur
Paul Boyce
.
This workshop will highlight the role of (audio-) visual and participatory arts works in the development of representations that move away from the fixity and/or Othering of identities. Our aim is to
Vivre Riche
2017
53
'
RAI Basil Wright
Directed by
Joël Akafou
.
“Rolex the Portuguese” has returned to Abidjan with one mission: to make lots of money. He seeks to emulates the hedonistic lifestyle of a new generation of West African music stars. He and his
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
Waiting for Harry
1980
57
'
Directed by
Kim McKenzie
.
Although the events around which this film was planned were the final mortuary rites for Les Angabarraparra, the subject of the film became interaction. Interaction between the anthropologist Les
Australia
Informant-researcher relationship
Indigenous peoples / First Nations peoples
Death
Reflexivity
Walker's
2018
11
'
Student
Directed by
Kyle Myers-Haugh
.
In this portrait of a historic black barbershop in Wilmington, North Carolina, we witness the everyday rituals that bind the men in this community together. Tight close ups illuminate intimate
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
Warehouse
2018
8
'
Directed by
Lillian Dam Bracia
S. Buse Yildirim
Constantinos Diamantis
Malwa Grabowska
.
Warehouse is a meditative ethnographic short film. Warehouse is a place where sound moves the objects. It is an intimate encounter in the cosmos of objects, sounds and textures where carpenter
The Water Goddess and the Computer
1989
52
'
Directed by
André Singer
Steven Lansing
.
The film demonstrates how in Bali, development projects can threaten a carefully balanced ecological irrigation system that is maintained by temple priests. A biologist and an anthropologist look at
South-East Asia
Infrastructure / Transport
Development projects
Environment
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
The Way I See Today
2016
46
'
Directed by
Antonia Gama
Márcio Gomes
.
The critically-acclaimed film City of God (2002) is a fiction film based on a novel about a real place known as Cidade de Deus (City of God), located in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. Through the
The Way We Live Now
2016
32
'
Student
Directed by
Sophia Hersi Smith
.
'The Way We Live Now' is an intimate portrait of the daily routines and rituals of the Hadza; modern-day hunter-gatherers living in the acacia-baobab woodlands surrounding Lake Eyasi in North-Central
East Africa
Hunting / Gathering / Fishing
Everyday Life
We Belong to the Earth
2015
30
'
Directed by
Ramona August
.
The establishment of the first intentional communities stretches back over two millennia ago, with notable examples such as the ancient Greek commune based on vegetarianism and equality of the sexes
We Don't Need A Grave
2014
27
'
.
'We Don't Need a Grave' attempts to show how the people who choose Shizenso rather than the typical family grave try to accept one's death. Shizenso is a natural mortuary practice that has no
Central Asia and Far East
Religion / Belief / Faith
Death
Ritual
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
Welcome Reception
'
Gala event
Convened by
RAI FILM FESTIVAL
.
Join us for a reception to welcome our guests and to celebrate the start of the festival. All welcome. Sponsored by Wiley.
Welcome Valentine 2017
2017
16
'
Student
Directed by
Dhruv Satija
.
In a temple dedicated to Hanuman in Ahmedabad, Gujarat, a priest flouts convention by marrying couples who are shunned elsewhere: mostly those who have eloped from families who disapprove of their
South Asia
Marriage
Love
LGBTQI*
Religion / Belief / Faith
Were Ni! He is a Madman
1963
30
'
Directed by
Frank Speed
Raymond Prince
.
This ethnopsychiatric film shows the management of psychiatric disorders by the Yoruba of Nigeria. There are two basic types of institutions to deal with psychiatric disorders. First there are
West Africa
Health / Health care / Healing
Ritual
Possession
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
What your eyes can’t see
2018
8
'
Shorts
Directed by
Julieta Pestarino
.
An essay-documentary that explores the processes of archival research, and the limits of the kind of knowledge it can provide. Pestarino pursues photographer and traveller André Roosevelt into the
When Four Friends Meet
2000
43
'
Directed by
Rahul Roy
.
Bunty, Kamal, Sanjay and Sanju, best of friends and residents of Jehangiripuri, a working class colony on the outskirts of Delhi are young and trying to make their lives in an environment which is
South Asia
Gender Role and Identity
Children / Young people
Urban
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 the Clouds End
2014
52
'
Directed by
Wanphrang Diengdoh
.
“My late great grandfather was a Bengali who came to Shillong in the early 1900s - long before the present political border divided the lands.” After the creation of borders between India and
South Asia
Colonialism / Postcolonialism
Race / Racism / Antiracism
Collective / Community identity
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
Why is Mr W. Laughing?
2017
76
'
Directed by
Jana Papenbrook
.
Jana Papenbroock with Horst Wässle, Michael Gerdsmann, Bernhard Krebs WHY IS MR W. LAUGHING? is a portrait of three members of a community of artists with different disabilities. Rather than
Western Europe
Art / Artists / Artisans
Collective / Community identity
Elderly people
Health / Health care / Healing
Life Story / Life History
Personal Narrative
Social participation
A Wind of Change
2019
72
'
Directed by
Toni de Bromhead
.
A Wind of Change 72 mins Segesta Production UK/IT Toni de Bromhead Unlike most films that one sees, this film shows what it really means to live with, and to fight the mafia in Sicily - not
Without Fathers or Husbands
1995
26
'
Directed by
Hua Cai
.
The Na are an ethnic group in south-east China. Their particularity is that all the members of each household are consanguineous relatives; their social organisation is absolutely matrilineal and as
South-East Asia
Family / Kinship
Collective / Community identity
Gender Role and Identity
Sex / Sexuality
Wives
2017
85
'
RAI Basil Wright
Directed by
Lisbet Holtedahl
.
Alhajji Ibrahim is an Islamic scholar who has served as judge at the Sultanate of Ngaoundéré in Northern Cameroon for 46 years. The film follows Alhajji during the last years of his life, focusing
West Africa
Family / Kinship
Everyday Life
Gender Role and Identity
Marriage
Personal Narrative
Religion / Belief / Faith
Social Norms
A Woman's Story
2015
52
'
Directed by
Azra Rashid
.
A look at genocide, survival, and physical and cultural continuity through the eyes of three women who have experienced three different genocides of the 20th century. Shot on location in Canada,
The Women Weavers of Assam
2019
98
'
Special Interest
Directed by
Aparna Sharma
.
The Women Weavers of Assam focuses on the craft, labour and the everyday lives of a group of women weavers in India’s northeastern state of Assam. The weavers belong to a non-profit collective
South Asia
Art / Artists / Artisans
Gender Role and identity
Material Culture
Women in Sink
2015
36
'
Directed by
Iris Zaki
.
At “Fifi’s”, a hair salon owned by a Christian Arab in Haifa, Iris Zaki installs a minimalist film set over the sink, where she converses with the clients she’s shampooing. She thus paints an
Women of Freedom
2017
58
'
Directed by
Abeer Zeibak Haddad
.
Women of Freedom follows the stories of women who were murdered in the name of ‘honor killing', in the Arab and Palestinian society. This documentary aims to unravel the social and political
Writing on the City
2015
60
'
Directed by
Keywan Karimi
.
With Writing On The City, Keywan Karimi redraws the history of Tehran through its walls, from the Islamic Revolution in 1979 to nowadays. He was sentenced to a year of detention and 223 whiplashes
Wási
2017
16
'
Shorts
Directed by
Sebastián Gómez Ruíz
Amado Villafaña Chaparro
.
As the sun rises on a village in northern Colombia, we glimpse its inhabitants as they begin their day. As the scene emerges from obscurity, a voiceover reflects on the nature of sight. It is the
South America
Indigenous peoples / First Nations peoples
Indigenous Filmmaking
History of Anthropology
Film / Photography / Mass media
YEH FREEDOM LIFE / THIS FREEDOM LIFE
2018
70
'
Directed by
Priya Sen
.
Yeh Freedom Life / This Freedom Life was filmed over a year in Ambedkar Nagar, a dense, largely working class area in South Delhi. It moves between the two very different worlds of its protagonists,
Yanomami: From Machetes to Mobile Phones
2012
58
'
Directed by
Cliff Orloff and Olga Shalygin
.
The Yanomami Indians are one of the last large relatively unacculturated indigenous groups remaining in the world. In November 2000 filmmakers Orloff and Shalygin documented the lives of a small
South America
Indigenous peoples / First Nations peoples
Material Culture
Social Change
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
Ymako
1998
52
'
Directed by
Laurent Van Lancker
Robin Shuffield
.
Ymako Teatri, a theatre company based in the Ivory Coast, uses street theatre to question some contemporary West African problems. Their originality consists in using the ‘invisible theatre’
West Africa
Dance / Theatre / Performance
Health / Health care / Healing
Social participation
Yolngu Homeland
2015
58
'
Directed by
Natasha Fijn
.
An observational film about Yolngu connections with other beings and the land. Garrthalala is a strong homeland community in Arnhem Land, Australia, where all ages venture out onto the coast and into
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
Yours Truly
2018
15
'
Directed by
Maddi Barber
Charlotte Hoskins
Christopher Murray
.
Yours Truly follows the trail of taxidermic pieces collected by The Manchester Museum during the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Archival letters between the museums directors, explorers, and
Youth Group
2015
28
'
Student
Directed by
Wanwan Lu
.
Set in the predominantly Asian “ethnoburbs” of Los Angeles County, this film follows a vibrant Buddhist youth group in a Chinese-American temple. Youth group members, most raised by immigrant
North America
Collective / Community identity
Religion / Belief / Faith
Intergenerational relations
Zahida
2018
28
'
Special Interest
Directed by
Seemab Gul
.
Zahida is a unique woman in Pakistan: she is the nation's only female taxi driver. This sensitive film provides fascinating insight into the personal and professional trials faced by this strong
Zawawa - the sound of sugar cane in the wind
2017
50
'
Directed by
Rupert Cox
Angus Carlyle
.
It is a strange and bitter irony that the US naval bombardment which launched the Battle of Okinawa in 1945 was called the ‘typhoon of steel’, invoking the turbulent winds that annually buffet
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
on-sea
2016
20
'
Student
Directed by
Hatty Bell
.
on-sea is a portrait film about the small community that lives on the Bush Estate at Eccles-on-sea, Norfolk. It is a film about landscape, and how people interact with it through day-to-day minutiae
A very Dai Girl
2018
27
'
Student
Directed by
MengHua Zhang
.
This film quietly observes her daily life of Xiao Yue, a bright 22-year-old young woman from Yunnan province in the South of China. We see Xiao Yue cook, care for her grandmother, sew, and farm - but
The world is round so that nobody can hide in the corners – Part I: Refuge
2017
10
'
Student
Directed by
Leandro Goddinho
.
The first instalment in a series of shorts that explore LGBTQ+ experiences across the globe, envisioning a queer diasporic community. In Refuge, we hear the moving account of a young man forced to
The world is round so that nobody can hide in the corners – Part II: The Kiss
2017
5
'
Student
Directed by
Leandro Goddinho
.
The second instalment in a series of shorts that explore LGBTQ+ experiences across the globe, envisioning a queer diasporic community. The Kiss stages an act of public sensuality at the Gay Holocaust
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
‘Making of’ Anthropology on TV
'
Workshop
Convened by
Evie Wright
.
Filmmakers working with the BBC Natural History Unit will describe the practicalities of all the various stages of production – from the development of an idea with which to approach commissioners,