Antropofest is an international festival of movies with social anthropological themes.
Festival is held by eponymous NGO, formed by social anthropology graduates. The goal of the festival is to introduce the general audience to the movies that could also be one of the important study instruments of our domain. These specific documents will allow us to learn about the life of various human communities, social groups or individuals around the world.
During the festival we will hold debates on current projections and there will be also other accompanying programme.
We are looking forward to you!
We are pleasured that we can screen together with Festival of the Freedom these movies: Be Jam Be, Grab nad run and Across Gender. We screen in several high schools across whole Czech Republic.
Freedom for ever!!
Call for films for Antropofest 2020 is not open. Thank you for understanding.
We would like to invite you to 3rd Anthropological Evening at Ponrepo cinema. It will take place on 16 MAY from 6.PM. You can watch Putování po Nepálu (1969) from National Film Archive and DUST (2016) from Antropofest archive. Our guest is Zdenek Stipl from Department of South and Central Asia, Charles University.
We would like to invite you to the second ECHOS OF ANTROPOFEST to Pardubice. The Echoes will take place 13MAY from 3 p.m. We will screen Be Jam Be, Říkejte mi strýcu, Remake of a Summer, Revenir, Shame and Perversity, and The Sisterhood: Visits of my friends.
We would like to invite you to first "Echos of Antropofest". It takes place 1APR from 6pm in Fotogaléria Trafačka in Nitra, Slovakia. We will screen Revenir movie.
| 17:45 | Welcome in Gallery Lucerna |
| 18:00 | Opening Ceremony of 10th edition |
| 18:15 | Remake of a Summer |
| 19:50 | Gellnerovský seminář |
| 17:42 | Open of Exhibition - 10 years of Antropofest |
| 18:00 | Ready-made básně z emailové konverzace s A-teamem – zahájení 10. ročníku Antropofestu |
| 18:30 | Archipelago |
| 19:30 | Guest and break |
| 20:00 | BE' JAM BE the Never Ending Song |
| 21:35 | Guests and break |
| 22:05 | The Sisterhood: Visits with my Friends |
| 14:00 | Wives |
| 15:30 | Break |
| 15:45 | Hanba a zvrácenost |
| 15:55 | Podzemnící |
| 16:05 | Guests and break |
| 16:35 | Říkejte mi strýcu |
| 17:10 | Guests and break |
| 17:40 | Youtubeři mezi námi |
| 18:00 | Guest and break |
| 18:30 | In the Devil's Garden |
| 18:55 | Guest and break |
| 19:25 | REVENIR (To Return) |
| 20:45 | Break |
| 21:00 | Marquis de Wavrin, from the Manor to the Jungle |
Alžírsko, Švýcarsko, 2018, 25 min
Pavel Borecký
26.01.2019 18:30
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 Arab men. As we move deeper into the desert, the site turns into a sacrifice zone and reveals its dark geopolitical secrets. The sensory ethnography film will invite you to question the banality of displacement, confinement and exploitation in an out-of-sight territory.
Pavel Borecký is a social anthropologist, non-fiction filmmaker and social innovator. He co-founded an award-winning research organization "Anthropictures", carried out diverse projects in Serbia, Peru, Estonia and Czech Republic, and produced several ethnographic films. Being based at University of Bern, he currently investigates tactics of managing water scarcity in Jordan and works on a new film, book and sound installation.
Director, camera, edit: Pavel Borecký
Production: Institut of Social Anthropology, University of Bern
Script: Pavel Borecký, Franziska Voigt
Language of dialogues: Arabic
Language of subtitles: English, Czech
Trailer: https://vimeo.com/282462351
Belgie, 2017, 85 min
Grace Winter, Luc Plantier
26.01.2019 21:00
The film invites us to follow the strange path taken by the Marquis de Wavrin, the first white man to film, at the end of the 1920s, the "head shrinking" Shuar Indians. Over 6000 meters of footage filmed between 1920 and 1938 led to his becoming a renowned explorer and ethnographer. Thanks to the safeguarding of this film heritage by the Cinémathèque (the Royal Belgian Film Archive), we are able to learn about the Marquis de Wavrin, defender and friend of the Indians of the Upper - Amazon, and a true filmmaker at heart.
After studying Art History and Social Anthropology at ULB, Grace Winter continued her studies at the Sorbonne for one year, obtaining a mandate from the CNRS (French National Center for Scientific Research) to produce ethnological works in Mali and the Ivory Coast. In 1979, she joined the distribution company Progrès Films, and went on to become a director of the company for 18 years. In 2002, following the closure of Progrès Films, she returned to the Cinémathèque (the Royal Belgian Film Archive) as a researcher
Luc Plantier studied Language Sciences at the University of Avignon, then went on to complete a Masters in Cinema in Lyon. Moving on from theory to practice, he obtained a post-graduate qualification in editing from IAD (The Broadcasting Arts Institution) in Louvain-La-Neuve.
Director: Grace Winter, Luc Plantier
Production: Image Création
Camera: Marquis de Wavrin, Dominique Henry
Script: Grace Winter
Edit: Luc Plantier
Language of dialogues: French
Language of subtitles: English, Czech
trailer: https://vimeo.com/308442558
Jižní Afrika, 2018, 24 min
Roger Horn
25.01.2019 22:05
Filmed by Feebee Lee Von Diamond, a transgender wine estate employee in Stellenbosch, South Africa, "The Sisterhood: Visits with my Friends", functions as a continuation and critique of director Roger Horn's 2010 film, 'The Sisterhood" in which Feebee briefly appeared. Feebee observes, provokes, and discusses failed romantic relationships, religion, drunken misadventures, and family loss with her close circle of friends. In opposition to a majority of films on the lives of transgender individuals in the global South, director Roger Horn and Feebee avoid focusing on beauty pageants, sexual organs, or specific transgender rights and instead provide an occasionally uncomfortable insight into the daily hopes, fears, struggles, and losses of this group of friends. On a macro level these vineyard workers are often overlooked in contemporary South African society due to the stigma surrounding the regions employees who have endured a long history of exploitation and alcoholism. On a micro level within their own communities due to their sexual preferences and lifestyle choices this group of long time friends share a bond with viewers that is not always one of conviviality, but ultimately reveals their undying support for one another.
Roger Horn lectures in Visual Anthropology at the University of Cape Town, drawing upon his 19 years of experience across various disciplines and media outlets for inspiration. Additionally, Roger is currently pursuing his PhD in Visual Anthropology where he continues to research and expand upon the material presented in his films about Zimbabwean women residing in Cape Town, S.A., "These Objects, Those Memories" (2015), "Migrant Dilemma" (2017), and "Research / Souvenir (Dialogues)" (2018). This first movie was screened on Antropofest 2017.
Director, production, script, edit: Roger Horn
Camera: Feebee Lee Von Diamond
Language of dialogues: English, Afrikaans
Language of subtitles: English, Czech
Trailer: https://vimeo.com/242777295
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