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Monthly Screenings

The 13th Anthropological Film Festival

This Is Our Everything

The 13th Anthropological Film Festival

The Jerusalem Cinematheque, together with the Department of Sociology and Anthropology at the Hebrew University, are working to promote documentary films with ethnographic orientation. These films use cinematic techniques in order to demonstrate the complexity and difficulties of the lives of individuals and communities around the world, the relationship between the human and non-human, and the social political and financial aspects of these relationships.

The screenings are accompanied by lectures and talks.

Come join us, come and be part of the world we live in.

Prisoners of Fate

Dir.: Mehdi Sahebi
| 100 minutes

Immigrants from Iran and Afghanistan are trying to recuperate from their difficult journey to the West, from loved ones left behind, and from an uncertain future. The film accompanies their daily lives as they get used to the new, grieve for what they left, and hope for a better future.
Speaker (in Heb.): Lydia Ginzburg, Hebrew University Jerusalem

Cosmosapiens

Dir.: Pavel Cuzuioc
| 97 minutes

This cinematic kaleidoscope focuses on a group of researchers of a space observatory isolated in the Caucasus Mountains. As conversations unfold about philosophy, art, and science, our protagonists confront the tangible reality of everyday life and the heavenly existence out there.
Speaker (in Heb.): Arik Gutler, Hebrew University Jerusalem

The Gospel According to Ciretta

Dir.: Caroline von der Tann
| 73 minutes

In Naples, we arrive at an old theater about to become a hotel. For Ciretta, it is a place for dreams, like using his voice and love for Madonna to become part of the community. Gospel is a tender and woeful story about marginalized people and a city rapidly changing.

Until I Fly

Dir.: Kanishka Sonthalia, Siddesh Shetty
| 90 minutes

In an Indian Himalayan village, lives a charismatic boy born to an Indian mother and a Nepalese father. The film follows Veeru over five years, during which he learns to navigate the sometimes hostility of the village towards his mixed origin, and the influence of nature and imagination.

Opening Event

Greetings and musical performance by Avigail Kovari

Marching in the Dark

Dir.: Kinshuk Surjan
| 108 minutes

Sanjivani is just one of thousands of widows of Indian farmers who were weighed down by debts and took their own lives. Sanjivani and other widows search for ways to break the cycle of despair and find paths of hope. This is an intimate, perceptive, and tender documentary.
Speaker (in Heb.): Mathias Jalfim Maraschin, Hebrew University Jerusalem

This Is Our Everything

Dir.: Frederik Subei
| 81 minutes

The Guajajara people in the Amazonas decide not to stand idly by while their land and that of the uncontacted Awá people is destroyed and form a group of forest guardians. In a thriller-like film, we accompany these guards as they try to stop the looting of natural treasures.
Speaker (in Heb.): Prof. Sharon Shiovitz-Ezra, Hebrew University Jerusalem

Echo of You

Dir.: Zara Zerny
| 76 minutes

A group aged eighty and over from Denmark offers genuine and heartfelt monologues detailing their married life that ended when their partner died. Their voices are woven together like a choir, entwined with abstract and dreamy images, music, and artistic interpretations of their inner lives.
Speaker (in Heb.): Prof. Nir Avieli, Ben Gurion University

Night of the Coyotes

Dir.: Clara Trischler
| 82 minutes

Most of the residents of a Mexican village, on the border with the US, have left in search of a better future across the border.  Those who remained established a tourist center that offers, among other things, an "escape game" that simulates the route of illegal immigration into the US.

Gerlach, The Last Farmer

Dir.: Aliona van der Horst, Luuk Bouwman
| 77 minutes

On the outskirts of Amsterdam, surrounded by a network of freeways, Dutch farmer Gerlach tries to continue working the land. This is a humorous and loving portrait of an old-school crop farmer who cheerfully weathers life’s headwinds.

Jonas Makas: Anthropology of the City, in First Person

 Prof. Tamar Elor and Prof. Dan Geva in conversation (in Heb.)

Walden: Reels 1 & 2

Dir.: Jonas Mekas
| 60 minutes

A chronicle of Jonas Mekas’ life in New York in the 1960s. The film captures daily life in the city, the art world, and experimental cinema, and documents encounters with prominent figures.

Among the Wolves

Dir.: Tanguy Dumortier, Olivier Larrey
| 81 minutes

In the no-man's-land between Finland and Russia, painter Yves and photographer Olivier wait for a pack of wolves. Throughout the four seasons, deep within the landscape that changes with the times, without movement and with hushed whispers, they slowly learn the life of the pack.
Spekaer (in Heb.): Prof. Michal Biran, Hebrew University Jerusalem

Daughter of Genghis

Dir.: Kristoffer Poulsen, Christian Als
| 85 minutes

This seven-year odyssey, taking place in the Mongolian underworld, centered on Gerel, who heads a group of young neo-nationalist women who do not shy away from violence. The film follows our heroine as she vacillates between various struggles and her personal life.
Speaker (in Heb.): Dr. Bat Sheva Hass

After the Bridge

Dir.: Davide Rizzo, Marzia Toscano
| 65 minutes

Valeria fell in love with a Moroccan immigrant, converted to Islam, and moved to his homeland. The film meets her 20 years later, back in Bologna. Her whole identity is upended when she learns that her son was involved in a terrorist attack. Valeria finds herself alone, having to put her life back together.

The Bilbaos

Dir.: Pedro Speroni
| 73 minutes

After five years in prison, Iván Bilbao returns to his city and family. In his attempt to rehabilitate his life, Iván has to find a way to rebuild his relationship with his family and tread carefully in front of those waiting to see if he flies or fails.