27.-28.1.2012
INTERNATIONAL FESTIVAL OF MOVIES
WITH ANTHROPOLOGICAL THEMES

KULTURA DARU

Poland, 2011, 45 min
Maciej Eichelberger, Lukasz Kaminski
27.01.2012 20:10

The filmmakers follow various alternative forms of socail thought, based on cooperation, openness and direct exchange of experience. They encounter on the various initiatives that seek to restore the dynamic exchange of people and culture. Dialoque with representatives and activists such as: open source trends, Permaculture, Qi gong, „Art exchange“, „Food not bombs“, presents a new from of „gift“ meaning.

Maciej Eichelberger: Graduated from the academy of film and television in Warsaw, has studied anthropology at Warsaw University, author of the documentary and reports, permaculture activist.

Lukasz Kaminski: student of anthropology at Warsaw University, author of documentary film. He travels and writes.

Directiors and production: Maciej Eichelberger, Lukasz Kaminski
Language of dialogues: Polish, English
Language of subtitles: English, Polish, Czech

Lauching of movie:
"Eyes and Lenses" - 8th Ethnografic Film Review, Warsaw, 2011

LIVING LIKE A COMMON MAN

Great Britain, 2011, 65 min
M.Rutten, S. Verstappen, I.Makay
28.01.2012 12:00

Youngsters in developing countries all over the world dream of going to the West. They hope to earn money and get overseas experience to improve their positions at home. But once they arrive, they end up in low-status jobs and living crammed into small houses of other newly arrived migrants.

This film follows the daily life in one such house in East London. The bunker beds are filled with young Indians, all from relatively wealthy families in Gujarat. When they return to visit India, their families have great expectations of their sons and daughters. Will these youngsters fulfill their own and their families´dream?

Sanderien Verstappen is a PhD. reasearcher in Anthropology at the University of Amsterdam. Her reasearch project focuses on the impact of emigration and remittances in central Gujarat (India).

Mario Rutten in Professor of Comparative Anthropology and Sociology of Asia at the University of Amsterdam. He has conducted extensive research on rural enterpreneurship and labour relations in India, Indonesia and Malaysia and on Indian migrants in Europe and their linkages with their homeregion in Gujarat, India.

Isabelle Makay is a visual anthropologist/documentary maker and teaches at the Design Academy Eindhoven. She directed several short documentaries.

Directors: M.Rutten, S. Verstappen, I.Makay
Production: Josaphatpark Productions BVBA
Language of dialogues: English, Gujarati
Language of subtitles: English, Czech

ART ON THE ROAD

Mexico, 2011, 8 min
Barbara Nickl
27.01.2012 22:25

A short documentary about travelling and the desire to move. It focuses on the ideas and stories of Artesanos – people who live a nomadic lifestyle, travel around Latin America and produce their own jewellery in order to fund their lives. It questions the reasons for choosing this way of life, the significance of travelling and represents their invisibility and intangibility while moving. It is a mix of Super 8, Photographs and sound.

Barbara graduated MA Visual Anthropology at University of Manchester and Munich´s University.

Director and production: Barbara Nickl
Language of dialogues: English, Spanish
Language of subtitles: English