Festival Pass

  • 101 films

Full access to all festival films, talks, presentations, 19-28 March. Click the Rent button above to buy the pass, and click HERE to find out more.

Welcome

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

One Day in the Life of Noah Piugattuk (2019)

  • 1h 53m

A tense, but at times humorous, historical drama about translation, (mis)communication and resistance to Canada's forced resettlement policy.

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 50m
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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  • 60min

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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  • 50min
Anti-Racist Documentary Filmmaking Workshop (2021)
  • Workshop
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  • 60min
Keynote by Faye Ginsburg (2020)
  • Keynote
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  • 60min
Keynote by Stephanie Spray (2021)
  • Keynote
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  • 60min
Global racialisations - Q&A with directors (2021)
  • Global Racialisations
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  • 60min
André Singer in conversation (2021)
  • Talk, Lifetime Achievement Award
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  • 60min
The Visual Scholarship Initiative [Emory University] (2021)
  • Talk
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  • 60min
NYU Culture & Media Program at 30 Years (2021)
  • Talk
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  • 0min
Muir ar n-Athraichean (Our Fathers’ Sea) [Edinburgh] (2021)
  • Talk
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  • 60min
Researching marriage, filming Family Time [University of Edinburgh] (2021)
  • Talk
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  • 60min
Imagine(ing) migration. The aesthetics of borders and resistance [SOAS] (2021)
  • Talk
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  • 60min
Beyond observation: A history of authorship in ethnographic film (2021)
  • Talk
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  • 60min
Anthropology, Creative Practice and Ethnography (2021)
  • Talk
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  • 60min
Filmmaking for Fieldwork (2021)
  • Talk
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  • 60min
Honouring Professor Marcus Banks (2021)
  • Talk
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  • 60min