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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

BETWEEN ISLAM AND SACRED FOREST

Germany, USA, 2016, 52 min
M. Gruber, F. Seidel
28.01.2017 17:40

Antropofest 2017 An anthropologist and a linguist from Germany are trying to understand a ritual taking place in a small village on the coast of Guinea, West Africa. They are told that two seemingly conflicting ceremonies take place during a four-day event commemorating a recently deceased woman: A Muslim celebration of the 40th day after death conducted by a local Imam and the Mkisaata ritual, performed by the members of a Nalu female secret society in honour of its deceased member. As different male parties involved tell the filmmakers their respective vision of the events, the researchers get increasingly drawn into the ritual by the women of the secret society and become part of the performance. "Between Islam and the Sacred Forest" shows the possibilities and impossibilities of audio-visual ethnography.

Martin Gruber works as a researcher and lecturer at the Department of Anthropology and Cultural Studies at the University of Bremen. Martin studied Visual Anthropology at Goldsmiths College, London and Social Anthropology at Hamburg University. He worked as a freelance filmmaker and researcher before completing a PhD on Participatory Ethnographic Filmmaking" in 2013. Martin's research interests are audio-visual research, ethnographic film, collaborative research, urban anthropology, political ecology and human-animal relationships with a focus on bees. Martin has conducted long-term ethnographic research in West Africa, Southern Africa, Bremen and Hamburg.
Frank Seidel studied African Studies, Cultural Anthropology and Political Science at the University of Cologne, Germany. After completing his Ph.D. in 2008 and he worked as a Post-Doc and Visiting Researcher at the University of Florida from 2010 – 2015. Frank is an established fieldworker and his research methods use the full digital array currently available, namely video, audio, imagery, as well as the digital collation of various types of transcriptions. His approach to language research includes leading, training, and/or collaborating with a team of language community members to collect and manage audio-visual language material. Consequently, he now curates two digital language archives of two endangered languages spoken on the coast of Guinea, West Africa.

Director, Script, Edit: M. Gruber, F. Seidel
Production: M. Gruber
WORLD PREMIERE

Language of dialogues: Nalu Language
Language of Subtitles: English, Czech

ETNOGRAFIE-FILM-DOKUMENT

Česká republika, 2017, 60 min
M. Pavlásek
27.01.2017 20:35

One of the possible ways of presenting the work of anthropologists and ethnologists, through which they are trying to understand the world arounds us, comes by means of ethnographic film. Similar efforts are also typical for film documentarists who can often uncover features of today´s society and spread them to the public. Both sides are linked together by the constant reflexion of own efforts coming out from its marginal position – searching for their own creative identity. Together with guests of the debate we will attempt to look closer at the specifics and background of visual anthropology and documentary, voice the possible common sources of inspiration and consider the possibilities and forms of cooperation.

Guests: Jaroslava Panáková, Ivo Bystřičan
The event is hosted by Michal Pavlásek (Antropictures)

Diskussion will be in Czech, without translation.

A REPORT ABOUT MINA

Írán, 2015, 54 min
K. Mazaheri
27.01.2017 20:20

Antropofest 2017 Mina who lives in a corner of a park in Tehran, pays no mind to the hustle and bustle of the New Year's celebrations. The film gives us a glimpse into fourteen days of her life as she plays with dogs, exchanges banter with other homeless people in search of drugs and cigarettes, and sleeps next to piles of garbage.

Kaveh Mazaheri was born 1981 in Tehran, Iran. An interest in cinema led Mazaheri to begin writing film criticism for Iranian magazines after graduating from college in 2004. His first short film, Tweezers (2007), was censored in Iran. To date, he has made three independent short films and more than twenty short and long documentaries for broadcast on Iranian television. He is the editor and author of a great many projects aside from his own. Some of the films he has directed include Soori's Trip (Doumentary, 2009), Labyrinth (Docudrama Series, 2013, 15 Episodes), and Cockroach (Fiction Short, 2015). Lately A report about Mina won "Special Mention Prize" and was nominated "Ogawa Shinsuke Prize" from Yamagata Documentary Film Festival (Japan 2015).

Director, Production, Camera, Script: Kaveh Mazaheri
Edit: Pooyan Sholevar

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

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