Welcome

Find out more here about the 17th RAI FILM Festival, 19-28 March 2021. Celebrating the best in ethnographic and anthropological filmmaking.

A Colombian Family (2020)

  • Main Competition
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  • 1h 20m

A mother and daughter confront the past after years of civil war, but end in the difficult dilemma between reconciliation and political ideals.

Decolonising the Archive shorts #2 (2021)

  • Decolonising the Archive
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  • 1h 13m

Rethinking how collections are made and remembered

Ophir (2020)

  • Main Competition
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  • 1h 37m

The struggle for sovereignty in Bougainville Island in the face of colonial rule and corporate mining interests.

My List

Main Competition
One Day in the Life of Noah Piugattuk (2019)
  • 1h 53m
Ayouni (2020)
  • Main Competition
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  • 1h 15m
The Body Won't Close (2020)
  • Main Competition
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  • 1h 14m
A Colombian Family (2020)
  • Main Competition
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  • 1h 20m
Half Elf (2020)
  • Main Competition
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  • 1h 4m
I Am Belmaya (2021)
  • Main Competition
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  • 1h 20m
In Search... (2018)
  • Main Competition
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  • 1h 30m
Oyate (2019)
  • Main Competition
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  • 1h 12m
Ophir (2020)
  • Main Competition
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  • 1h 37m
Persistence (2019)
  • Main Competition
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  • 54min
Stories from Cabo Corrientes (2020)
  • Main Competition
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  • 1h 17m
Survivors (2018)
  • Main Competition
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  • 1h 24m
Tote_Grandfather (2019)
  • Main Competition
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  • 1h 20m
The Two Lives of Li Ermao (2019)
  • Main Competition, Lifetime Achievement Award
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  • 1h 27m

Werbner Award
Broken Gods (2019)
  • Werbner Award
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  • 42min
Chasing Shadows (2019)
  • Werbner Award
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  • 1h 10m
Death of the One who Knows (2020)
  • Werbner Award
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  • 1h 22m
The Healer and the Psychiatrist (2019)
  • Werbner Award
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  • 1h 14m
A Kali Temple Inside Out (2018)
  • Werbner Award
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  • 1h 23m
A New Era (2019)
  • Werbner Award
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  • 1h 11m
The Olive Pickers (2020)
  • Werbner Award
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  • 51min
Suspension (2019)
  • Werbner Award
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  • 1h 13m

Music docs
Elder's Corner (2020)
  • Ethnomusicology
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  • 1h 36m
In Search of Bidesia (2019)
  • Ethnomusicology
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  • 1h 5m
Milano Milanovac & Make a Silence (2021)
  • Ethnomusicology
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  • 1h 18m
Ojò Igbì - The Xire of the Waters of Oxala & Gũlā - Music for a sacred time (2020)
  • Ethnomusicology
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  • 1h 15m
Who says the lepchas are vanishing & Bang the Drum (2019)
  • Ethnomusicology
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  • 1h 10m

Shorts
Shorts01 - Creative lives (2021)
  • Shorts Collection
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  • 1h 48m
Shorts02 - Women, empowerment and religion (2021)
  • Shorts Collection
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  • 1h 10m
Shorts03 - Pleasure (2021)
  • Shorts Collection
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  • 1h 17m
Shorts04 - Migration at the crossroads | 1 (2021)
  • Shorts Collection
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  • 1h 2m
Shorts05 - Migration at the crossroads | 2 (2021)
  • Shorts Collection
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  • 1h 12m
Shorts06 - Animals | Humans | Ritual (2021)
  • Shorts Collection
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  • 1h 38m
Shorts07 - Sparks! (2021)
  • Shorts Collection
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  • 1h 16m
Shorts08 - Livelihoods (2021)
  • Shorts Collection
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  • 1h 30m
Shorts09 - Indigenous knowledge (2021)
  • Shorts Collection
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  • 1h 17m
Shorts10 - Environmental crisis (2021)
  • Shorts Collection
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  • 1h 9m
Global Racialisations shorts (2021)
  • Global Racialisations
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  • 1h 42m
Decolonising the Archive shorts #1 (2021)
  • Decolonising the Archive
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  • 1h 13m
Decolonising the Archive shorts #2 (2021)
  • Decolonising the Archive
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  • 1h 13m

Global Racialisations
Beats of the Antonov (2014)
  • Global Racialisations
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  • 1h 8m
Not in my Neighbourhood (2018)
  • Global Racialisations
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  • 1h 26m
Mahdi Fleifel Trilogy (2020)
  • Global Racialisations
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  • 57min
Global Racialisations shorts (2021)
  • Global Racialisations
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  • 1h 42m
Global racialisations - Q&A with directors (2021)
  • Global Racialisations
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  • 1h 10m

Decolonising the Archive
Palimpsest of the Africa Museum (2019)
  • Decolonising the Archive
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  • 1h 9m
VHS Diaries (2020)
  • Decolonising the Archive
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  • 1h 12m
Decolonising the Archive shorts #1 (2021)
  • Decolonising the Archive
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  • 1h 13m
Decolonising the Archive shorts #2 (2021)
  • Decolonising the Archive
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  • 1h 13m

Talks
The future of Visual Anthropology in the wake of Black Lives Matter (2021)
  • Talks
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  • 1h 44m
Anti-Racist Documentary Filmmaking Workshop (2021)
  • Workshop
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  • 50min
Keynote by Faye Ginsburg (2020)
  • Keynote
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  • 55min
Keynote by Stephanie Spray (2021)
  • Keynote
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  • 55min
Global racialisations - Q&A with directors (2021)
  • Global Racialisations
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  • 1h 10m
André Singer in conversation (2021)
  • Talk, Lifetime Achievement Award
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  • 1h 45m
The Visual Scholarship Initiative [Emory University] (2021)
  • Talk
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  • 26min
NYU Culture & Media Program at 30 Years (2021)
  • Talk
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  • 57min
Muir ar n-Athraichean (Our Fathers’ Sea) [Edinburgh] (2021)
  • Talk
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  • 37min
Family Time [University of Edinburgh] (2021)
  • Talk
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  • 43min
Imagine(ing) migration. The aesthetics of borders and resistance [SOAS] (2021)
  • Talk
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  • 5min
Beyond observation: A history of authorship in ethnographic film (2021)
  • Talk
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  • 1h 24m
Anthropology, Creative Practice and Ethnography (2021)
  • Talk
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  • 1h 30m
Filmmaking for Fieldwork (2021)
  • Talk
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  • 1h 5m
Honouring Professor Marcus Banks (2021)
  • Talk
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  • 45min
Zacharias Kunuk in conversation with Faye Ginsburg (2021)
  • Talk
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  • 50min
Covid Collage Chronicles by Cathy Greenhalgh (2021)
  • Exhibition
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  • 40min