Antropofest is an international festival of movies with social anthropological themes.
Festival is held by eponymous NGO, formed by social anthropology graduates. The goal of the festival is to introduce the general audience to the movies that could also be one of the important study instruments of our domain. These specific documents will allow us to learn about the life of various human communities, social groups or individuals around the world.
During the festival we will hold debates on current projections and there will be also other accompanying programme.
We are looking forward to you!
We would like to invite you to Echoes of Antropofest in Brno. It starts at Monday 11th May from 5pm in Cafe Falk, Gorkeho street. You can watch Common Roads, Ulice spojuje a Lakros - after this movie will be discusion with authors.
Echoes of Antropofest in Pardubice are today. It starts at 7pm in Klub 29. You can watch Ulice spojuje (discussion with director will be follow after movie), Orchard Keepers and Honey.
We apologize, but the screening of Bertsolari movie is cancelled.
Workshops "Lakros - Ways of seeing" a "Common Roads - reaserch and production context"and projection of movie Bertsolari will be in Café Jedna in National Gallery, Dukelských hrdinnů 530/47, Praha 7.
We are pleasured that we can welcome to Antropofest 2015 these guests: Livia Šavelková and Milan Durňak (Lacrosse), Lana Askari (Haraka Baraka), Tommi Mendel (Common Roads), Adélu Košařová (Odpad na talíři), Anna Dvořáková (Ulice spojuje), MIchal Pavlásek (Druhé Vojvodovo), Frode Storaas (The Go-Between), Christine M. Janney (Living Quechua) and Libor Dušek - author of the exhibition.
| 20:00 | Opening Ceremony |
| 20:05 | Lakros - to je způsob života |
| 18:00 | Výstava "Trojí tvář Váchánu" |
| 19:00 | Growing Soul - My daughter´s Ritual Journey |
| 19:30 | The Orchard Keepers |
| 20:00 | Haraka Baraka |
| 20:30 | Discussion and Break |
| 21:00 | Common Roads - Pilgrimage and Backpacking in the 21st Century |
| 22:30 | Discussion |
| 14:00 | Lakros – způsoby pohledu, Café Jedna |
| 15:00 | Common Roads - reaserch and production context, Café Jedna |
| 17:15 | Odpad na talíři |
| 17:30 | Ulice spojuje |
| 17:35 | Discussion and Break |
| 17:50 | What Life is like here |
| 18:20 | Druhé Vojvodovo: myslet obrazem |
| 18:50 | Discussion and Break |
| 19:15 | Afluentes |
| 19:40 | Living Quechua |
| 20:00 | Discussion and Break |
| 20:30 | The Go-Between - Afar of Ethiopia |
| 21:05 | Break |
| 21:25 | The Puppet´s Cemetery |
| 21:40 | Honey |
| 22:20 | Closing ceremony |
| 14:00 | Bertsolari |
Švýcarsko, 2013, 95 min
T. Mendel
30.01.2015 21:00
Whereas the label of «pilgrim» is still mostly associated with devout persons leaving home for purely religious motives, young people taking to the road as «backpackers» are generally perceived as pleasure seeking globetrotters. Questioning these stereotypes, anthropologist and filmmaker Tommi Mendel followed one young woman along the Way of St. James through France and Spain and another one along backpacking-routes through Thailand, Cambodia and Laos. Documenting their experiences and encounters over a period of three years, this film reveals intriguing parallels on various levels between what at first glance appear as two different ways of travelling. Common Roads is Tommi Mendel’s PhD-thesis accepted by the University of Zurich. It was supported by the Swiss National Science Foundation.
Director, camera, script, edit: Tommi Mendel
Production: Tigertoda productions
Language of dialogues: Swiss, German, English, Spanish, French
Language of dialogues: English, Czech
Tommi was born 1970 in Lucerne, Switzerland. He studied Social and Cultural Anthropology, Religious Studies and History at the University of Zurich with the focus on Visual Anthropology.
His MA-thesis is the ethnographic documentary film Arukihenro- walking pilgrims(2006), his PhD-thesis the ethnographic documentary filmCommon Roads (2013).
His ethnographic documentary Bunong´s Birth Practices between Tradition and Change (2010) won several prizes at international film festivals and was also screened at Antropofest in 2011
Tommi is a board member of the Audio-visual Commission of the Swiss Ethnological Society and an independent filmmaker.
Festivals (selection):
International Anthropological Filmfestival Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam
Ethnographic Filmfestival Kratovo, Macedonia
Intimate Lens - Festival of Visual Anthropology, Caserta, Italy
Days of Ethnographic Film, Ljublana, Slovenia
NAFA International Ethnographic Film Festival, Isafjordur, Island
European Association of Social Anthropologists, Conference and Festival, Tallin, Estonia
Česká republika, 2014, 8 min
A. Dvořáková
31.01.2015 17:30
The movie is playing out in the streets of Prague and presents us Jiří who has been earning a living as a street musician for a couple of years. In the interview, Jiří reflects the issue of the legitimacy in Prague and ever-changing permissions for street production. Last but not least, the movie provides an insight into the conflicts and friendships which are developing in the streets every single day.
Director, production, camera, edit: Anna Dvořáková
Language of dialogues: Czech
Language of subtitles: none
Anna study MA in Social Anthropology at University of Pardubice, Czech Republic.
Česká republika, 2015, 60 min
L. Šavelková, M. Durňak
31.01.2015 14:00
The filmmakers will discuss the context and production of the film. Various ways of viewing the film will be debated. The presentation will also focus on the question how the awareness of different audiences and groups depicted and related to the film affects the filmmakers’ final product.
(Café Jedna, Národní Galerie, Dukelských hrdinnů 530/47, Praha 7).
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