IFFR – International Film Festival Rotterdam
2021-06-02 - 2021-06-06 | Online, United Kingdom

Riga Pasaules Film Festival, Latvia
2021-06-03 - 2021-06-06

Sheffield International Documentary Festival (SIDF)
2021-06-04 - 2021-06-13

40th NAFA International Ethnographic Film Festival, Portugal
2021-06-09 - 2021-06-12

RAI Film Webinar: Multimodal inventions
2021-09-09 16:00 - 18:00 (Europe/London) | Online, United Kingdom
RAI Film Webinar
– A VIRTUAL SEMINAR BY THE ROYAL ANTHROPOLOGICAL INSTITUTE –
Multimodal inventions
in conversation with
Dr Isaac Marrero-Guillamón (Goldsmiths, University of London) and Dr E. Gabriel Dattatreyan (Goldsmiths, University of London)
This talk discusses our experiences and experiments in multimodal anthropology – a practice we conceptualise in relation to a politics of invention. We will elaborate on some of the key arguments we have made in our writing together (Dattatreyan & Marrero-Guillamón, 2019) and present examples from more recent work. As pedagogues and practitioners, we are interested in unpacking the modes of encounter and learning generated by different multimodal strategies. More specifically, we will explore how the latter open up opportunities for inventive engagements with anthropological mainstays such as journal articles, monographs and ethnographic films.
Suggested reading:
Dattatreyan, Ethiraj Gabriel, and Isaac Marrero‐Guillamón. 2019. ‘Introduction: Multimodal Anthropology and the Politics of Invention’. American Anthropologist 121 (1): 220–28. https://doi.org/10.1111/aman.13183

German Anthropological Association (DGSKA) Conference 2021
2021-09-27 - 2021-09-30

NAFA 2020/21
2021-09-29 - 2021-10-02

11th Taiwan International Ethnographic Film Festival 2021
2021-10-01 - 2021-10-05
Submission deadline: March 20, 2021

10th Ethnological Documentary Film Festival, Kratovo
2021-10-01 - 2021-10-03
Macedonian Ethnological Society announces the tenth edition of the Ethnological Documentary Film Festival Kratovo. The Festival will be held in the town of Kratovo, Republic of Macedonia.
The festival aims to promote visual ethnology/anthropology, to present different approaches to ethnological/anthropological film making, and to animate dialogue between the authors and spectators.
The submissions of documentary films made by ethnologists, anthropologists, professional filmmakers and students of ethnology and anthropology are welcomed.
The length and year of production of the films are not important.
The application form you can find at makedonskoetnoloskodrustvo.org

Visual Research Conference - Society for Visual Anthropology
2021-11-11 - 2021-11-13 | Online, United Kingdom
Submission deadline: 23 May 2021

Bremen Days of Ethnographic Film
2022-01-18

Jean Rouch International Film Festival
2022-05-05 - 2022-05-12 | Musée du quai Branly – Jacques Chirac, 37 Quai Branly, Paris, 75007, France

16th German International Ethnographic Film Festival
2022-05-25 - 2022-05-29
Submission deadline: December 15, 2021

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.
