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 would like to invite you to Echoes of Antropofest in Brno. It starts at Monday 11th May from 5pm in Cafe Falk, Gorkeho street. You can watch Common Roads, Ulice spojuje a Lakros - after this movie will be discusion with authors.
Echoes of Antropofest in Pardubice are today. It starts at 7pm in Klub 29. You can watch Ulice spojuje (discussion with director will be follow after movie), Orchard Keepers and Honey.
We apologize, but the screening of Bertsolari movie is cancelled.
Workshops "Lakros - Ways of seeing" a "Common Roads - reaserch and production context"and projection of movie Bertsolari will be in Café Jedna in National Gallery, Dukelských hrdinnů 530/47, Praha 7.
We are pleasured that we can welcome to Antropofest 2015 these guests: Livia Šavelková and Milan Durňak (Lacrosse), Lana Askari (Haraka Baraka), Tommi Mendel (Common Roads), Adélu Košařová (Odpad na talíři), Anna Dvořáková (Ulice spojuje), MIchal Pavlásek (Druhé Vojvodovo), Frode Storaas (The Go-Between), Christine M. Janney (Living Quechua) and Libor Dušek - author of the exhibition.
| 20:00 | Opening Ceremony |
| 20:05 | Lakros - to je způsob života |
| 18:00 | Výstava "Trojí tvář Váchánu" |
| 19:00 | Growing Soul - My daughter´s Ritual Journey |
| 19:30 | The Orchard Keepers |
| 20:00 | Haraka Baraka |
| 20:30 | Discussion and Break |
| 21:00 | Common Roads - Pilgrimage and Backpacking in the 21st Century |
| 22:30 | Discussion |
| 14:00 | Lakros – způsoby pohledu, Café Jedna |
| 15:00 | Common Roads - reaserch and production context, Café Jedna |
| 17:15 | Odpad na talíři |
| 17:30 | Ulice spojuje |
| 17:35 | Discussion and Break |
| 17:50 | What Life is like here |
| 18:20 | Druhé Vojvodovo: myslet obrazem |
| 18:50 | Discussion and Break |
| 19:15 | Afluentes |
| 19:40 | Living Quechua |
| 20:00 | Discussion and Break |
| 20:30 | The Go-Between - Afar of Ethiopia |
| 21:05 | Break |
| 21:25 | The Puppet´s Cemetery |
| 21:40 | Honey |
| 22:20 | Closing ceremony |
| 14:00 | Bertsolari |
Švýcarsko, 2013, 95 min
T. Mendel
30.01.2015 21:00
Whereas the label of «pilgrim» is still mostly associated with devout persons leaving home for purely religious motives, young people taking to the road as «backpackers» are generally perceived as pleasure seeking globetrotters. Questioning these stereotypes, anthropologist and filmmaker Tommi Mendel followed one young woman along the Way of St. James through France and Spain and another one along backpacking-routes through Thailand, Cambodia and Laos. Documenting their experiences and encounters over a period of three years, this film reveals intriguing parallels on various levels between what at first glance appear as two different ways of travelling. Common Roads is Tommi Mendel’s PhD-thesis accepted by the University of Zurich. It was supported by the Swiss National Science Foundation.
Director, camera, script, edit: Tommi Mendel
Production: Tigertoda productions
Language of dialogues: Swiss, German, English, Spanish, French
Language of dialogues: English, Czech
Tommi was born 1970 in Lucerne, Switzerland. He studied Social and Cultural Anthropology, Religious Studies and History at the University of Zurich with the focus on Visual Anthropology.
His MA-thesis is the ethnographic documentary film Arukihenro- walking pilgrims(2006), his PhD-thesis the ethnographic documentary filmCommon Roads (2013).
His ethnographic documentary Bunong´s Birth Practices between Tradition and Change (2010) won several prizes at international film festivals and was also screened at Antropofest in 2011
Tommi is a board member of the Audio-visual Commission of the Swiss Ethnological Society and an independent filmmaker.
Festivals (selection):
International Anthropological Filmfestival Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam
Ethnographic Filmfestival Kratovo, Macedonia
Intimate Lens - Festival of Visual Anthropology, Caserta, Italy
Days of Ethnographic Film, Ljublana, Slovenia
NAFA International Ethnographic Film Festival, Isafjordur, Island
European Association of Social Anthropologists, Conference and Festival, Tallin, Estonia
Německo, 2013, 38 min
M. Gruber
31.01.2015 21:40
The film “Honey” depicts the production of honey from wild bees as well as different aspects of honey consumption in the highlands of central Angola where honey is an important means of subsistence and cash income. The film was conceived and shot by a group of villagers from the Cusseque area. “Honey” is the outcome of participatory film workshop organised by Martin Gruber and Miquel Hilario for the interdisciplinary research project “The Future Okavango”, investigating sustainable resource management in the Okavango Basin.
Director: Martin Gruber
Production: Martin Gruber
Camera: A.Antónia, M. Gruber, M.S. Hilario, H.B. Job, F. Jose, E. Quintas
Script:A.Antónia, M. Gruber, M.S. Hilario, H.B. Job, F. Jose, E. Quintas
Edit: M. Gruber, M.S. Hilario, M.P. d Santos
Language of dialogues: Chokwe, Portuguese
Language of subtitles: English, Portuguese, Czech
Martin Gruber studied Visual Anthropology at Goldsmiths College, London and Social Anthropology at Hamburg University. He works as an ethnographic researcher and filmmaker and teaches visual anthropology. Martin recently completed a PhD on participatory ethnographic filmmaking at the Department of Anthropology and Cultural Studies, University of Bremen.
Festivals (selection):
Days of Ethnographic Cinema, Moscow
EASA Conference Film Program, Tallin, Estonsko
NAFA Film Festival, Isafjordur, Iceland
Days of Ethnographic Film, Bremen, Germany
Peru, Velká Británie, 2013, 24 min
J. Meirinhos
31.01.2015 19:15
“Afluentes” are small rivers or streams that flow towards a bigger river or lake which, in this case, symbolize Ayahuasca. An ancient psychedelic brew that changes peoples’ perception and brought together, in this film, a teacher, a traveller and a desperate man to the same place. This documentary focuses on the increase of spiritual tourists in the Peruvian amazon, modern shamanism and the healing potentials of traditional plant medicine.
Director: Joao Meirinhos
Production: Granada Centre for Visual Anthropology, Manchester
Language of dialogues: Spanish
Language of subtitles: English, Czech
BA in Social Sciences and Cinema in Lisboa, MA in Visual Anthropology and Ethnographic film in Manchester, fieldworks in Portugal, Burkina Faso and Peru.
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