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Barah Pal
Directed by Jennifer Rosen
12 castes of gypsy artists ended their nomadic ways nearly 45 years ago to squat in New Delhi. Now the slum is being dismantled and rehabilitated. These are their last...
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The Block
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 building. It follows the story...
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Celso and Cora
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...
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Cinema Pedregal
Directed by Ricardo Leizaola
For forty years Alejandro Farfán has been making and showing films in El Pedregal. Now located in the heart of Caracas, this community was a small village when Alejandro first...
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The City Beautiful
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...
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Herat Films: The City of Herat
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...
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Herat Films: The Shrines of Herat
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...
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Holy Hustlers
Directed by Richard Werbner
Charismatic, street-wise young men, living in Botswana’s capital, command the prophetic domain in Eloyi, their Apostolic faith-healing church, at a time of escalating crisis. Bitter, sinful accusations divide Eloyi’s village-based...
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Hulme Homes for Hulme People
Directed by Aunund Austena
Summer ’92 and Hulme, a densely populated and culturally diverse area of inner city Manchester, is being demolished for the second time in 30 years, this time in consultation with...
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In Pursuit of Happiness
Directed by Ray Ono
Tokyo life as rarely seen on mainstream media. This short film takes you to the lives of men who live on the outskirts of the city and of Japanese society.
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Manenberg
Directed by Christian Vium, Karen Waltorp
Manenberg is a coming-of-age story about two young ‘Cape Coloureds’ struggling to make sense in the ruins of a post-apartheid South African township. Manenberg is a suburb outside Cape Town,...
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Mongolia part 2: The City on the Steppes
Directed by Brian Moser
The second of two films on Mongolia made by Granada Television in 1974–75 looks at life in Ulan Bator, the capital of Mongolia and home of a quarter of the...
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A New Era
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...
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Nuba Wrestling
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...
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Other Europe
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....
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Ravi and Bhajay
Directed by Rachel Webster
Street boys Ravi and Bhajay lead a tough life on the pavements of Mumbai in India. To get away from it, they visit the nearby holy city of Ujjain with...
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Q2P
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...
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Raju and His Friends
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...
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Smell the Roses
Directed by Julie Milling
Christiania is a self-governing community in the heart of Copenhagen set up by squatters at the height of 1970s idealism. Faced with extinction or urban redevelopment, residents struggle to redefine...
RAI FILM Festival 2025
The next RAI FILM Festival will take place in person from 27-30 March 2025 at the Watershed Cinema and the Arnolfini International Centre for Contemporary Arts in Bristol (UK) and online throughout the month of April 2025.
