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The 6th 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 with some of the filmmakers.

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

The 2018 Festival will take place November 20-22

The Cinema Travelers

Dir.: Shirley Abraham, Amit Madheshiya
| 96 minutes

For over 70 years, Indian cinema had reached the peripheries on projector-mounted trucks. Now, the projectors are crumbling, the trucks have stopped running, and film is rare. The movie follows the last cinema shows in the digital age.

Speaker (in Heb.): Prof. Gili Drori, Hebrew University Jerusalem

What We Have Made

Dir.: Fanny Tondre
| 71 minutes

In a huge construction site in France, a camera focuses on four of the thousands of workers. The film, shot in black and white, shows the physical and demanding work, all the while exploring a realm of thoughts, emotions, social and family relationships

Speaker (in Heb.): Elad Yaron, Hebrew University, Jerusalem

China’s Van Goghs

Dir.: Yu Haibo, Kiki Tianqi Yu
| 80 minutes

Dapan, China, tens of thousands of people work in painting workshops that reproduce famous classical European works of art that are later sold around the world. The film follows one of these workshops that specializes in Van Gogh, offering an intimate portrait of the artists

Speaker (in Heb.): Prof. Victor Azarya, Hebrew University Jerusalem

Boli Bana

Dir.: Simon Gillard
| 60 minutes

The boys and girls of the Fulani tribe in Burkina Faso, Africa, spend their adolescence apart. Their daily lives, unique experiences, and rites of passage are captured on film in a traditional anthropological manner.

Opening Event

Opening remarks and a performance by a children choir

Singing with the Angry Bird

Dir.: Hyewon Jee
| 88 minutes

In the heart of the slums of Pune, India, a retired Korean opera singer (Angry Bird) wants to teach the local children how to sing. Though they communicated through foreign music and language, heartwarming and extraordinary connections form. 

Speaker (in Heb.): Dr. Amit Zoran, Hebrew University Jerusalem

Ghostland: The View of the Ju’Hoansi

Dir.: Simon Stadler
| 85 minutes

The Ju’Hoansi people from the Kalahari Desert of Namibia are not allowed to keep their traditional way of life. Instead, they serve as a living museum for tourists. The film documents a special and jarring journey the tribe members take to visit other tribes in Namibia and Europe. 

Singing with the Angry Bird

Dir.: Hyewon Jee
| 88 minutes

In the heart of the slums of Pune, India, a retired Korean opera singer (Angry Bird) wants to teach the local children how to sing. Though they communicated through foreign music and language, heartwarming and extraordinary connections form. 

Prof. Lynn Schler, Ben Gurion University, in conversation with the director Dieudo Hamadi

Mama Colonel

Dir.: Dieudo Hamadi
| 72 minutes

Colonel Honorine, more commonly known as “Mama Colonel”, has been working for the protection of minors and women and fighting sexual abuse in Congo. Now, transferred to the city of Kisangani, her difficulties only grow.

Speaker (in Heb.): Elad Ben Elul, Tel Aviv University

Ppa Joe & The Lion

Dir.: Benjamin Wigley
| 74 minutes

In his glory days, Ppa Joe made a very good living from his craft – artistic designed coffins. When he is invited to showcase his work in the UK, new hope arises. Concepts of life and death, beauty and craftsmanship live within cultural challenges.

China’s Van Goghs

Dir.: Yu Haibo, Kiki Tianqi Yu
| 80 minutes

Dapan, China, tens of thousands of people work in painting workshops that reproduce famous classical European works of art that are later sold around the world. The film follows one of these workshops that specializes in Van Gogh, offering an intimate portrait of the artists

War Games

Dr. Dan Geva, Haifa University, and Prof. Tamar Elor, Hebrew University Jerusalem, in conversation

Dead Birds

Dir.: Robert Gardner
| 85 minutes

Does mankind love to fight? Is violent competition indeed an inevitable behavioral experience? What attracted Robert Gardner and viewers to images of war? Gardener’s classic film, Dead Birds, approaches these basic issues

Lydia Ginzburg, Open University, in conversation with the director Liivo Niglas

The Land of Love

Dir.: Liivo Niglas
| 78 minutes

In the Siberian forest, where the reindeer conduct their mating rituals, the employees of the local oil company have taken over. Yuri Vella, a reindeer shepherd, cultural activist and poet, tries with all his might to return the field of love to its rightful owners 

Journalist and former MK Nino Abesadze in conversation (in Heb.)

The Dazzling Light of Sunset

Dir.: Salome` Jashi
| 74 minutes

A beauty competition for young teens in high heels; the conduct of a rare owl; the upcoming elections; and the dramatic events of veteran soldiers are all stories covered by the local TV news crew of a Georgian town. 

Dr. Ina Leykin, Open University, in conversation with the director Olga Delane

Siberian Love

Dir.: Olga Delane
| 80 minutes

Director Olga Delane travels back to her childhood village in Siberia, seeking to capture the story of her family. It is a story of a community dealing with natural and social hardships, a society that has a different view of emotions.

Almost Holy

Dir.: Steve Hoover
| 96 minutes

Gennadiy Mokhnenko (Pastor Crocodile) runs at-risk children center in the Ukraine. His methods are unconventional and he sees himself as a soldier at war. His greater than life image has grown within the clergy, Ukrainian nationalism, and Russian culture.

What We Have Made

Dir.: Fanny Tondre
| 71 minutes

In a huge construction site in France, a camera focuses on four of the thousands of workers. The film, shot in black and white, shows the physical and demanding work, all the while exploring a realm of thoughts, emotions, social and family relationships

Cairo Jazzman

Dir.: Atef Ben Bouzid
| 82 minutes

Without government support, with a small group of sponsors, and with an ever changing political climate, Amr Salah accomplishes the impossible – to hold an international Jazz festival in the heart of Cairo. A festival that brings together people from all walks of life.