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INTRODUCTION

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!

NEWS

02 05

Echoes of Antropofest arrive to Bratislava, Slovakia. You can watch Mass and Five Lives, all directors will be there. They will also debate about visual anthropology. Café Satori Stage, 6p.m.

27 03

"Echoes of Antropofest" continued in Pardubice, 4th April from 5pm. You will watch: Masa, Five lives, Problems of Elites, In the Rythm of the City and Sacred Water. Screening will take place at University of Pardubice, bulidinf EB, room E2.

18 03

We would like to invite you to ECHOS OF ANTROPOFEST TO NITRA, Slovakia.
Screenings will take place on 30th March from 5pm in Fotogaléria Trafačka during "Ethnological days" organised by Department of Ethnology and Folklore of University KF in Nitra, Slovakia.
You can watch these movies: British Born Chinese, Gurumbé and Between Islam and Sacred Forest.

02 03

Firts "Echos of Antropofest" will take place at Maňana Bar, Žižkovo nám 6, Jičín at 10th and 11th of March from 4pm in both days. We will screen this movies: A Report About Mina, Dust, Gurugu, Haying Time, Masa, Nobel Nok Dah, Pět Životů, Sacred Water, Tama Gaun - The Cooper Village.

25 01

Guests of Antropofest 2017 are: Michal Pavlásek and Ivo Bystřičan (Masa), Jaroslava Panáková (Pět životů), Marcel Romanutti (Problematika elit), Ondřej Raffel (V rytmu města), Frode Storaas (Tama Gaun), Evgeny Aleksandrov and Elena Danilko (Haing Time), Deepak Tolange, Christoph Siegel, Anisha Gosh (Dust). Let´s discuss with them about theirs movies!!

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SCHEDULE

27.01.2017 : Sál A

18:30	Opening Ceremony
18:35	Bridge to Kobane
19:00	Gurugu
19:05	Masa
19:40	Discussion
20:20	A Report about Mina
21:25	Gurumbé. Afro-Andalusian Memories

27.01.2017 : Sál B

18:30	Opening Ceremony
18:35	Bridge to Kobane
19:10	Teteyotes. Stones Gods.
20:00	Nobel Nok Dah
20:35	Etnografie-film-dokument

28.01.2017 : Sál A

14:30	British Born Chinese
15:25	Extended family
16:00	Haying time
16:45	Discussion
17:25	Dust
18:20	Discussion
18:55	Tama Gaun - The Copper Village
20:25	Discussion
21:00	Sacred Water
21:55	Closing Ceremony

28.01.2017 : Sál B

14:30	V rytmu města
14:35	Problematika elit
14:50	Discussion
15:10	My Antropo Films
15:25	Etno-film: Mezi tradicí a experimentem
16:30	These Objects, Those Memories
17:00	Discussion
17:40	Between Islam and Sacred Forest
18:30	Discussion
19:15	Pět životů
20:20	Discussion
21:00	Sacred Water
21:55	Closing Ceremony

MOVIES

PĚT ŽIVOTŮ

Slovenská republika, 2016, 65 min
J. Panáková
28.01.2017 19:15

Antropofest 2017 Viktor Valerevich Mumikhotkak also known as „Mukha", Yupik Eskimo from the hamlet New Chaplino (Chukotka, Russia), died tragically in 2012. Somebody stabbed him in his abdomen and cut off his fingers. In 2014, when young Alla Ukuma gave birth to her first son, her mother told her: „Last night I saw Mukha in my dream. He had come back in your boy. Let us name your baby Viktor". According to the local people, the dead can return to the realm of the living up to five times. This film essay on life, death and possible return poses the universal question: How do you confront your own end?

Jaroslava Panáková received her PhD in Social Anthropology at St. Petersburg State University in Russia and MA in documentary cinema at FAMU Prague, Czech Republic. Since 2001 she has been studying indigenous peoples of Polar Russia. She combines her fieldwork with the filmic approach. Author's short film "The seagull flying against the wind" (2005) was screened at the IFF in Jihlava and at the festival Oneworld. Her medium-length film "Being tourist at home" (2009) participated in 2009 at the East Silver market in Jihlava and in 2010, won the first Prize at the TOCOCU festival in Lisboa. Her long-feature film, Five Lives (2016), was claimed "the best doc on survival of indigenous peoples" at the XXX PÄRNU Film Festival.

Direcotr, camera, script: J. Panáková
Production: J.Panáková, spolek PAMODAJ
Edit: Šimon Špidla

Language of Dialogues: Russian
Language of subtitles: Slovak

BRITISH BORN CHINESE

Velká Británie, 2015, 47 min
A. Lawrence
28.01.2017 14:30

Antropofest 2017 British Born Chinese is a documentary film about Daniel and Kevin, two school boys born to Chinese migrants and living in Manchester. It engages their everyday struggles of reconciling their Britishness with Chineseness through their experiences at school, as volunteers at a community centre, and at home. We use an ethical approach driven by dialogue and close involvement with the film's subjects to understand the vulnerabilities through which the boys navigate their place in the British society. Our filmmaking as research not only uncovers new dimensions to understanding the ways our subjects experience their lifeworlds, but also seeks to reduce the epistemic violence of dominant forms of representation.

Andrew Lawrence is a filmmaker and a teacher using anthropological knowledge and ethnographic research methods to explore issues using film and video. Andrew is filmmaker in residence and a Lecturer in Visual Anthropology at the Granada Centre for Visual Anthropology in Manchester, UK. Andy plays a leading role in the delivery of the MA in Visual Anthropology, and he is the principal tutor for the two week International Summer School, Filmmaking for Fieldwork. Andy studied social anthropology at UCL and visual anthropology at the Granada Centre before working for TV in the UK, USA and the Netherlands.

Director: Andrew Lawrence
Camera: A. Lawrence, B. Cheetham, T. Turner
Script: E. Barabantseva, A. Lawrence
Edit: K. Hanson
Production: E. Barabantseva

Language of Dialogues: English
language of Subtitles: Chinese, English, Czech

HAYING TIME

Rusko, 2015, 48 min
E. Alexandrov, E. Danilko
28.01.2017 16:00

Antropofest 2017 Krasnovishersky district of Perm Region.Taiga foothills of the Northern Urals. People's life here is determined by forest, which had always fed and given shelter to indigenous Finno-Ugric population. Closely-knit family of Old Believer priests Krechetov tries to resist to widespread destruction of traditional life. Haying time is not the best time to talk with the villagers – all are in the fields from youngsters to orders. ..Except our interlocutors... What are their memories of the remote past? How they respond to their current life? How they live now? What they believe in and what expect?

Evgeny Aleksandrov: Leading research assistant, Doctor of Fine Arts, the head of Visual Anthropology group of The Earth Science Museum at M.V.Lomonosov Moscow State University Has about 60 publications on visual anthropology. Producer of video works of CVA MSU (1989 - 2009) Creator and director of the Moscow International Festival of Visual Anthropology "Mediating Camera"
Elena Danilko: Current position is Doctor of History, Leading research assistant the Institute of Ethnology and Antropology Russian Academy of Science. Executive director of the Moscow International Festival for Visual Anthropology "Mediating Camera"-2010

Director, script: E. Aleksandrov, E. Danilko
Camera: E. Aleksandrov
Edit: Roman Likhacev
Production: Visual Anthropology and Media Lab, Ecocenter of Moscow State University
Festivals: Tartu Worldfilm Festival 2015, Ethnological Film Kratovo 2016

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