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Going Back Home
Directed by Catarina Alves-Costa
For those who live in the city, each and every summer is about going back to Arga, the village in Northern Portugal, which they left to find work. For the...
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The Good Wife of Tokyo
Directed by Clare Hunt, Kim Longinotto
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...
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The Head Cornerstone
Directed by Ruth Hammill
Griffiths takes his responsibilities seriously and works very hard as a taxi driver in Negril, Jamaica, to support his family. His sense of obligation extends to his siblings, his ageing...
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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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Hundreds of Homes
Directed by Heimo Lappalainen
Taiga Nomads is a film series about the Evenki (previously the Tungus), a nomadic people scattered all over eastern Siberia, and living under harsh conditions in the taiga, an area...
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The Light on Mykines Island
Directed by Ulla Rasmussen
Ulla Boje Rasmussen’s at once historical and contemporary documentary from 1992 about the life and nature of the sparsely populated and spellbound island of Mykines. With outstanding footage she portrays...
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Pepsi War
Directed by Charlie Clay
The post-colonial period in Papua New Guinea has seen resurgence in tribal warfare. Pepsi War follows the story of a fight between two clans, which developed from a dispute over...
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The School and the Village
Directed by Heimo Lappalainen
Taiga Nomads is a film series about the Evenki (previously the Tungus), a nomadic people scattered all over eastern Siberia, and living under harsh conditions in the taiga ± an...
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The Skills You Passed On
Directed by Heimo Lappalainen
The second of three films about the Evenki people of eastern Siberia. Focuses on Nikolaj Pavlovich Archemku, who experienced the very beginning of Soviet power, two World Wars, and the...
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.
