The first issue of ZARE: Horizons in Visual Anthropology is out!
We are delighted to share some exciting news: The first issue of ZARE: Horizons in Visual Anthropolo…




We are delighted to share some exciting news: The first issue of ZARE: Horizons in Visual Anthropology is out!
ZARE is the new name and new chapter of the newsletter that has connected visual anthropologists across continents since Asen Balikci began circulating the CVA newsletter in 1988. What you …
We are pleased to announce that the submissions for the Days of Ethnographic Film festival 2027 are now open.
The event will take place at the Slovenian Cinematheque in Ljubljana at the end of February 2027.
đź“… Submission deadline: 1 October 2026
Please read the regulations and complete the …
The German International Ethnographic Film Festival will take place between 13.5. – 17.5.2026 in Alte Mensa, Göttingen, Germany.
The event is also a meeting point of young students of anthropology, sociology and media studies, who are interested in the use of film as research method, mode of publishing …
(Photo: Lisbet Holtedahl with Susan Whyte by Knud Fischer-Møller)
An international ethnographic film seminar in the Ethnographic Exploratory at the Department of Anthropology, University of Copenhagen, 26 June 2025
NAFA, together with the film project ‘Madame Lisbet’, held an ethnographic …
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We are delighted to share some exciting news: The first issue of ZARE: Horizons in Visual Anthropolo…
We are pleased to announce that the submissions for the Days of Ethnographic Film festival 2027 are …
The German International Ethnographic Film Festival will take place between 13.5. – 17.5.2026 in Alt…
One of NAFA’s most important tasks has been to build up an anthropological film collection; for use in teaching and research; a unique collection of classic and more recent ethnographic films, which is matched only by a few of the world’s most important and largest ethnographic film collections.
In 2017, NAFA has launched the Journal of Anthropological Film (JAF), a peer-reviewed journal that publishes films that stand alone as original, empirical contributions based on social anthropological research.

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