29.1.-1.2.2015
INTERNATIONAL FESTIVAL OF MOVIES
WITH ANTHROPOLOGICAL THEMES

LAKROS - TO JE ZPŮSOB ŽIVOTA

Česká republika, 2014, 63 min
L.Šavelková, T.Petráň, M.Durňak
29.01.2015 20:05

The film is about the lacrosse, and its importance for the Haudenosaunee people (represented by the Iroquois Nationals), and for the Czech people (represented by the lacrosse organisations, scouts, and woodcrafters). In 2011, the World Indoor Lacrosse Championship was held in Prague, the Czech Republic. It was the first time when the Iroquois National lacrosse men’s team visited the Czech Republic, using their Haudenosaunee passports.
However, the film is not focused only on reporting of the Championship agenda. Furthermore, it highlights the essential spiritual, political and sport aspects of the lacrosse for the Haudenosaunne and Czech communities. It also explains the formation of this originally Native American game in the Central Europe, including the hint of political issues in the former communist Czechoslovakia.
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Directors: L.Šavelková, T. Petráň, M. Durňak
Production Cinepoint
Camera: T.Petráň, M.Durňak, V. Barák, P.Řezáč, P. Záruba
Script: L.Šavelková
Edit: T.Petráň, M.Durňak

Language of dialogues: Czech, English
Langue of subtitles: Czech, English

Lívia Šavelková – graduated from Charles University in Prague in ethnology and journalism at the Faculty of Arts and the Faculty of Social Sciences. She is fond of Lacrosse and since 2011 she and her colleagues have been revealing various forms and meanings of the lacrosse in different parts of the world. She works at the Faculty of Arts, University of Pardubice, Czech Republic.
Tomáš Petráň – a filmmaker, teacher and also a farmer. He graduated from and also teaches at The Film and TV School of Academy of Performing Arts in Prague. He has produced a lot of documentary films, articles and also a book related to visual anthropology. He developed visual anthropology at the Department of Social Sciences at University of Pardubice between 2009 and 2013.
Milan Durňak – “an ethnologist with a camera in his hands”. He graduated from Charles University in Prague in ethnology at the Faculty of Arts. His thesis was based on film trilogy TUMENGE/screened at Antropofest and Ethnofilm Čadca 2012/. He is a PhD candidate and continues in experimenting with visual anthropology.

COMMON ROADS - PILGRIMAGE AND BACKPACKING IN THE 21ST CENTURY

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

HONEY

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