24.-25.1.2014
INTERNATIONAL FESTIVAL OF MOVIES
WITH ANTHROPOLOGICAL THEMES

GRICKO

Srbsko, 2013, 12 min
K. Milutinović, I. Begani, L. Milenković
25.01.2014 15:35

Film Gricko is about a man who who transforms his ideas into actions at one place. At certain moment he is moving from one place to another, from Skopje to Belgrade, into Inex Film. Transfering his activist’s ideas he is giving new spirit to place and way of functioning of Inex Film. He became the link that connected the different points of view in a synchronous whole.

Katarina Milutinovic, Ivan Begani and Luka Milenkovic are studying ethnology and anthropology at the University of Belgrade. In addition to individual small works and researches within the faculty, they have applied for project of visual anthropology, which brought them their first contact with camera, and also opened them new horizons in terms of research.

dialogues: Serbian, subtitles: English, Czech
Produkce: Klub Studenata Etnologije i Antropologije, Bělehrad, Srbsko 
Directors, camera: K. Milutinović, I. Begani, L. Milenković

ON THE COMMON GROUND

Velká Británie, 2013, 25 min
Sophie Wagner
25.01.2014 20:10

On a small hill in the north of Israel the members of a religious kibbutz, a community of artists and an Arab village – who share a politically fraught history including losing homes and reclaming identity – live as neighbours in a hillside. Although villagers of the three communities do not hold many narratives in common, they do share an understanding of the power od mastering them. The way in which each story, and they are often conflicting ones of victim-hood and guilt, pride and wrongdoings, contains the other without neccessarily relating to it, laid bare a sense of unavoidable inter-subjectivity- This film is an attempt to communicate alternative points of views to the often quite stereotypical imagery we, in central Europe, are bound to perceive via dramatic media reports on the situation in Israel. We follow people´s lives in a shared enviroment and begin to understand, that individual identifications to rarely match up with official categories, which are deployed by state sponsored narratives. The governing of those is a powerful tool – therefore the creation of contemporary, shared, narratives of land and people is a politically meaningful act. On Common Ground points to the question if, and how, this can have an effect in a country that is divided within and under constant pressure from the outside.

Sophie Wagner graduated from cultural and social anthropology at the University od Vienna. Now, she is currently finishing her second MA in the Centre of Visual Anthropology at the University of Manchester. She is also working for the Ethnocineca – Vienna´s documentary and ethnographic film fest.

Dialogues: English, Hebrew, Subtitles: English, Czech
Production, director, camera: Sophie Wagner

THE WORLD PREMIERE!

OUR MISSIONARIES

Norsko, 2013, 9 min
Martin Gruber
25.01.2014 19:40

A small village on the coast of Guinea, West Africa. Missionaries settled here in their effort to bring Christianity to this Muslim dominated area. The villagers still speak warmly about their visitors. Nevertheless, the missionaries left after some years – seemingly in a rush, leaving behind many of their belongings. The film “Our Missionaries” tells the story of a misconceived intercultural encounter using the villagers’ memories and images of the missionaries’ material legacy.
 
Martin Gruber studied Visual Anthropology at Goldsmiths College, London and Social Anthropology at Hamburg University. He works as an ethnographic researcher and filmmaker and teaches visual anthropology. Martin recently completed a PhD on participatory ethnographic filmmaking at the Department of Anthropology and Cultural Studies, University of Bremen.

Production, director, camera: Martin Gruber
dialogues: Nalu language
subtitles: English, Czech

Launching:
NAFA Film Festival, Bilbao, 2013
Ethnological Film Festival Kratovo, Macedonia, 2013
Athens Ethnographic Film Festival 2013