Films 31 Films Country "Italy" x films with a digital version 7 short films 22 films available on demand 4 Region Central Europe 1 Middle and Near East 2 South-East Europe 21 Western Europe 3 Western Mediterranean 8 Country Bosnia-Herzegovina 1 France 1 Italy 31 x Palestine 1 Spain 1 Syria 1 United Kingdom 1 Keywords Agriculture / Farming 1 Animation 1 Archaeology 1 Art / Artists / Artisans 2 Collective / Community identity 1 Dance / Theatre / Performance 1 Education / Knowledge Transmission 1 Family / Kinship 1 Festivals / Carnival 18 Film / Photography / Mass media 1 Folklore 16 Food 1 Gender Role and Identity 1 Herding 2 History 2 Hunting / Gathering / Fishing 1 Intergenerational relations 2 Labour 2 Law and Legislation / Bureaucracy 1 Life Story / Life History 2 Memory 2 Migration 5 Music / Ethnomusicology 2 Participatory / Collaborative methods 2 Political Activists 1 Refugees / Displaced populations 1 Religion / Belief / Faith 2 Research methods 1 Rural 1 Social Change 2 Socioeconomic conditions 1 Squatter Settlements / Homelessness 1 Urban 1 War / Conflict / Reconciliation 1 Directors Ahmed, Akbar 1 Bloching, Max 1 Cao, Umberto 1 D'onofrio, Alexandra 1 Dukmak, Abd Alrahman 1 Fales, Ludovica 1 Ferrarese, Adriana 1 Grasseni, Cristina 1 Grieco, Anthony 1 MacDougall, David 1 Mura, Andrea 1 Patriarca, Niccolo 1 Schillaci, Rosella 1 Schillaci, Rossella 2 Trentini, Michele 16 de Bromhead, Toni 2 Series Carnival King of Europe 16 Granada Center for Visual Anthropology Student Film 2 not set 13 Country of production Australia 1 Canada 1 France 2 Germany 1 Greece 1 Italy 23 United Kingdom 5 United States 1 Year of production 1984 1 1993 1 1998 1 2007 1 2009 1 2010 3 2011 2 2012 1 2014 1 2015 8 2016 6 2017 3 2018 1 2020 1 Film list The Beautiful White Masks of Rèsije 2017 15' Directed by Michele Trentini . In a small community of Italian Slavic-speakers, the performance by the Beautiful White Masks, impersonated by women, comes to an abrupt end with the burning of the Babaz. This film is part of South-East Europe Festivals / Carnival Folklore Caroling with the Star among the Bersntoler 2015 26' Directed by Michele Trentini . In the German-speaking Bersntol (Val dei Mòcheni) in the Italian Alps, the Three Wise Men have left in their stead a robust choir of young men, parading the Star from farm to farm. This film is South-East Europe Festivals / Carnival Folklore Caught in a Magic Place 2007 28' Directed by Niccolo Patriarca . A story of sandwiches and generations, ambitions and regrets from the heart of the Italian kitchen. Western Mediterranean Food Intergenerational relations Labour Coraggio coscritti: take heart, all new recruits! 2016 25' Directed by Michele Trentini . The yearly parade of the new recruits is the perfect occasion in which to vent an extraordinarily wide repertoire of traditional songs. This film is part of **Carnival King of Europe DVD 6 - South-East Europe Festivals / Carnival Folklore The Day of the Pustje on Mt. Matajur 2015 11' Directed by Michele Trentini . Throughout western Slovenia, Pust or Pustje are the names given to the Carnival dummy and the same names are also used in the Italian side of the Julian Alps. This film is part of **Carnival King South-East Europe Folklore Festivals / Carnival The Day of the Zanni 2016 17' Directed by Michele Trentini . The Zanni of central Italy, are the same as the Pulcinella of the South of Italy or the Lachè in the North. They are Carnival heralds, clad in white, with a pointed, ribboned, imposing headpiece. South-East Europe Folklore Festivals / Carnival Fiddling away Carnival in Caffaro 2017 12' Directed by Michele Trentini . Bagolino and Ponte Caffaro host the largest surviving ensemble of folk violin in the Alps, which makes Carnival a leap back into the Renaissance roots of the violin itself. This film is part of South-East Europe Folklore Festivals / Carnival 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 The Gnaga 2017 8' Directed by Michele Trentini . The Gnaga is an old hag, carrying her drunk husband back home in a pannier. This film is part of Carnival King of Europe DVD 5 PARADING THE VILLAGE. On Carnival days, the village is brought back South-East Europe Festivals / Carnival Folklore 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 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 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 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 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 Once upon a time in Val di Fiemme 2009 23' Directed by Michele Trentini . Every four years, the new recruits in Carano are presented to the community in the midst of a complex carnival ritual called Banderàl. This film is part of **Carnival King of Europe DVD 6 - South-East Europe Folklore Festivals / Carnival 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 The Passion and Death of the Carlisèp 2015 19' Directed by Michele Trentini . In Schignano, in the Lombardy mountains close to the Swiss border, Carlisèp is the local name of the Carnival dummy, who attempts a last minute escape. Carnival trials such as that held in Valda, South-East Europe Festivals / Carnival Folklore 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 A Rite on the Run: the Blùmari of Benecija 2015 10' Directed by Michele Trentini . In the Slovenian-speaking Italian Benecija, the Blùmari run across the village fields once a year, just like the Arval Brethren of ancient Rome. This film is part of **Carnival King of Europe DVD South-East Europe Folklore Festivals / Carnival 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 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 Speeding the Plough in Stilfs 2015 22' Directed by Michele Trentini . In Upper Vinschgau in South Tyrol a highly charged Carnival parade takes place with the specific purpose of “speeding the plough”. This film is part of **Carnival King of Europe DVD 4 SPEEDING South-East Europe Festivals / Carnival Folklore St. Anthony Bonfires in Mamoiada 2014 17' Directed by Michele Trentini . St. Anthony’s Day marks the first annual outing of the celebrated Sardinian Mamuthones with their blackened shepherd’s outfit, carefully directed by their eternal antagonists, the Issohadores. South-East Europe Festivals / Carnival Folklore St. Martin’s Bonfires in Predazzo 2010 10' Directed by Michele Trentini . On November 11th, great bonfires are lit by the local youth to celebrate the distribution of the annual revenues from the forestry harvest. This film is part of **Carnival King of Europe DVD 3 - South-East Europe Festivals / Carnival Folklore St. Nicholas’ Night in Val di Fassa 2010 15' Directed by Michele Trentini . As an early harbinger of celestial light, St. Nicholas and his mixed company of angels and devils visits every home, to tell children off in the most persuasive of manners. This film is part of South-East Europe Festivals / Carnival Folklore 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 Those Who Don’t Work Don’t Make Love 1998 30' Directed by Cristina Grasseni . An observational documentary about dairy farmers in the Italian Alps. Caught between pride for tradition and the pressure for modernisation, the story of one family is told through the eyes of Western Mediterranean Agriculture / Farming Social Change 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 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 The White Primavera of the Agordino 2016 16' Directed by Michele Trentini . The beauty of the village, impersonating a gypsy woman, the Zinghenesta, has the main dancing role in the masquerade. This film is part of **Carnival King of Europe DVD 5 PARADING THE VILLAGE**. South-East Europe Folklore Festivals / Carnival The trial, sentence and execution of Johnny Woodstock 2010 15' Directed by Michele Trentini . Carnival trials such as that held in Valda, in the mountains of Trentino, are commonplace throughout Europe. Death sentence is for granted. This film is part of **Carnival King of Europe DVD 8 - South-East Europe Festivals / Carnival Folklore