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Directed by Afua Asare-Nyako
Kwabena wants to move back to Ghana, the country he left more than 30 years ago. This film shows one of the many journeys that he has to take in...
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The Emperor’s Secret Garden
Directed by Mandy Chang, Zhou Bing
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Faith
Directed by Insa Langhorst
Together with a Pentecostal youth group, teenagers Colin and Salo are on a mission trip to East Germany preaching the word of God. On the streets of Wismar they experience...
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For The Love of the Game
Directed by Birgitta H. Anttila
Hurling is a game combining skill, speed and strength. Players – even at the highest levels – are amateurs, but still spend hours on training. Through the encounter with hurler...
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The Guga Hunters of Ness
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...
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Habilito – Debt for Life
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...
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In the Light of Memory
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...
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In a State of Dress
Directed by Madelief de Heer
Filmed in Walcheren, a region in the south-west of the Netherlands, this film tells of the lived experience of wearing regional dress. Once worn by the whole community, today this...
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Law and War in Rural Kenya
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...
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Lessons from the Tiger
Directed by Ife Olatunji
A brief glimpse into the Foundation Fior Di Loto girls’ school, this film explores the competing ideas of traditional and contemporary womanhood in Rajasthan, India. Four girls introduce us to...
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Made in Trenchtown
Directed by Ester Maagdenberg
Made in Trenchtown’ is the product of a collaboration with three teenagers from Trenchtown – a ghetto in Kingston, Jamaica, controlled by drug lords. As Philomena, Diamond and Stephan hold...
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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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Masks of Mer
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...
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Men at Work
Directed by Christine Moderbacher
“Men at Work” depicts the daily working life of one of the few remaining institutions in Austria that still employs only men. They are responsible for a 39 km stretch...
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One day in Lancova Vas
Directed by Michele Trentini
In eastern Slovenia, an assorted party of masked ploughmen run around each village on Carnival days. In the Slovenian-speaking Italian Benecija, the Blùmari run across the village fields once a...
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Pink Saris
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....
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Promise and Unrest
Directed by Áine O’Brien, Alan Grossman
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...
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Raised by Humans
Directed by Karlia Campbell
Raised by Humans’ follows two dogs with difficult life histories as volunteers from the Royal Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals try to find families to adopt them...
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St. Martin’s Bonfires in Predazzo
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...
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St. Nicholas’ Night in Val di Fassa
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....
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.
