27.-28.1.2017
INTERNATIONAL FESTIVAL OF MOVIES
WITH ANTHROPOLOGICAL THEMES

BRIDGE TO KOBANE

Irák, 2016, 22 min
L. Askari
27.01.2017 18:35

Mihemed, a journalist from Kobane in Syrian Kurdistan, renegotiates his future plans while living as a refugee in Slemani, Iraqi Kurdistan. Following the changing future perspectives of Mihemed's story, Bridge to Kobane ties together issues of migration, borders and future horizons in times of crisis.

Lana Askari is a PhD candidate in Social Anthropology with Visual Media at the University of Manchester. Trained in Anthropology (MPhil Social Anthropology, University of Cambridge) and Documentary Filmmaking (MA Visual Anthropology, University of Manchester), she recently returned from her fieldwork in Slemani, Iraqi Kurdistan where she was a research affiliate at the American University of Iraq, Sulaimani. Her research areas include ethnographic documentary film, diaspora and migration, and the anthropology of time, infrastructure and the state.

Director, Camera, Edit, Script, Production: Lana Askari

Language of Dialogues: Kurdish
Language of Subtitles: English, Czech
 

TETEYOTES. STONES GODS.

Mexiko, 2016, 42 min
J.B. Díaz, A. S. Eres, A.J. Arango
27.01.2017 19:10

In the Municipality of Yahualica, Hidalgo, a Nahua community from Mexico, the archaeological pieces (named stone gods in their language) have the ability to make the population sick. Through an accurate knowledge the inhabitants of the municipality manage to deal with the power of the 'stone gods' in order to prevent possible damages and to benefit from the relationship with them. This facet of their reality has been seriously criticised by the Mexican media and the community has been deprived of a large part of their material heritage. This documentary pictures the life of the Nahuas from Yahualica, who have to coexist with the world of the stones, who make them sick, and with the world of the mestizos, who ridicule and rob them.

Jaime Bernardo Díaz is an anthropologist; Ana Somohano Eres and Antonio Jaramillo Arango are both historians. The three of them studying their PhDs at the UNAM, México, where they research about the social life objects can have in native communities dating before and after the Conquest.

Director, script, edit, production: J.B. Díaz, A.S. Eres, A.J. Arango
Camera: J.B. Díaz
Festivals: VI Congreso Mexicano de Antropología Social-Foro de cine etnográfico 2016; Instituto de Investigaciones Filológicas-Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México 2016
EUROPEAN PREMIÉRE

Language of Dialogues: Spanish
Language of Subtitles: Spanish, English, Czech

GURUMBÉ. AFRO-ANDALUSIAN MEMORIES

Španělsko, 2016, 72 min
M.Á. Rosales
27.01.2017 21:25

Today Europe's southern borders are shielded with barbed wire and fences, but once a trade flourished here that forcibly kidnapped thousands of african men and women into exile and exploitation. Giving voice to its Afro Andalusian memories, Gurumbé leads us to question Spanish identity, reminding us that Africa is weaved into its fabric.
Miguel Ángel Rosales is an andalusian Anthropologist and Documentary Filmmaker.

Director, script: M. Á. Rosales
Production: Intermedia Producciones
Camera: Eduardo Montero
Edit: Andrés Zoilo
Festivals (selection): 40th SÂO PAULO INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL. Sâo Paulo, Brazil 2016;  FILM AFRICA FESTIVAL. London, Great Britain 2016; FESTIVAL INTERNATIONAL DU FILM DE BRUXELLES. Bruxelles, Belgium 2016; 24th AFRICAN DIASPORA INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL. New York , USA 2016

Language of Dialogues: Spanish, Portuguese
Language of Subtitles: English, Czech