41st NAFA International Ethnographic Film Festival
2022-09-07 - 2022-09-11 | Csehétfalva / Cehețel, Harghita County, Romania
The NAFA 2022 event will be held in Romania, in the tiny village of Csehétfalva / Cehețel in Harghita County in Transylvania 7-11 September.
The Nordic Anthropological Film Association (nafafilm.org and nafanetwork.org) is an organization for cooperation within the field of visual anthropology and has been active since the mid-1970s. NAFA organises an annual International Ethnographic Film Festival where ethnographic films are shown and discussed.
Read more about the tentative programme for this edition on the festival website.

RAI Film Festival 2023
2023-03-01 - 2023-03-31 | Watershed, 1 Canon's Road, Bristol, BS1 5TX, United Kingdom
Submission Deadline: 31/08/2022

The RAI FILM FESTIVAL celebrates documentaries from around the globe that engage with themes of culture & society. It has a special focus on anthropological and ethnographic films. First held in 1985, and one of the longest-established in its field, the RAI FILM FESTIVAL serves as a leading forum for exploring the multiple relationships between documentary film-making, anthropology, visual culture, and the advocacy of cultural diversity and intercultural dialogue through film.
Please note that the RAI Film Festival 2023 will be both an online as well as a face-to-face event, circumstances permitting.

German International Ethnographic Film Festival
2024-05-08 - 2024-05-12 | Paulinerkirche, Göttingen, Germany
The festival presents the most recent productions of ethnographic films and acts as a platform for a dialogue between anthropology and documentary filmmaking.
The festival is a unique forum for filmmakers and film enthusiasts from all over the world and considers itself as an innovative interface between science and culture. The aim is to make films about current socio-cultural topics accessible to the interested public and a broad specialist audience, thus stimulating a socially relevant dialogue.
The festival 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 and communicating research results. The student film competition is one of the central events of the festival.
The main themes of this year’s festival are:

Living on the margins of society
Coping with personal destiny
Beyond the matter
Gender issues
Struggling with the environmental crisis
Dealing with political obstacles
Decolonisation
Dealing with memories in film
The use of re-enactment in film and working with virtual reality.

63 presentations were selected, 20 in the student film section, 28 in the main festival, and 15 in the online section.
The filmmakers are from 30 different nationalities and represent people in 44 countries.
Most films will be screened at the Paulinerkirche in Göttingen, except 15 quite impressive long films which will be only available online like many of the screened films.
