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Programme

Information on films in this programme is laid out in the following format: Title (Catalogue Number) - Director, Year of Production, Running Time in minutes, Country of Production/Location.

This programme is published in the expectation that it will be definitive. However, the Festival organisers reserve the right to make alterations as required by changing circumstances.

STRANDS 1 2 3
WEDNESDAY 27 JUNE
THEATRES Cosmo Rodewald John Thaw Stephen Joseph
10.00 - 11.30

BLACKWELL STUDENT PRIZE

(Extra) Ordinary Lives

Three lives-Hanoi (18) - André Hörmann, 2006, 28', Germany/Vietnam

Ordinary Lives (81) - Sheetal S. Agarwal, 2005, 36', India

WORKSHOP

Revisiting & Recontextualizing Archival Films

Co-ordinator: Susanne Hammacher


- including -


SPECIAL INTEREST SCREENINGS

How Little We Know of Our Neighbours (269), Rebecca Baron, 2005, 50', USA/Bolton, UK


- extracts from -


Ainu-Past and Present. The Legacy of Neil Gordon Munro's Film (229) - Uchida Junko, Suzuki Yuki, 2006, 102', Japan

Coffee

11.45 - 13.00

Sona and her Family (168) - Daniela Rusnokova, 2006, 37 mins, Slovakia

Still Life (272) - Diana Allan, 2007, 23', USA/Lebanon

Lunch

14.00 - 16.00

To be a Pilgrim...

Into the Field (80) - Alyssa Grossman, 2005, 28', UK / Romania

Papa Bilong Chimbu (198) - Verena Thomas, 2006, 54', Germany/Papua New Guinea

PANEL

Visual Anthropology in Latin America

Co-ordinators: Carlos Flores & Alejandra Navarro Smith

Tea

THEATRES Cosmo Rodewald Bragg
16.30 - 18.00

Walking Pilgrims (Arukihenro) (5) - Tommi Mendel, 2006, 73', Switzerland/Japan

18.30 - 19.00

FORMAL OPENING OF THE FESTIVAL

Wine Reception (John Thaw)

19.00 - 21.00

2007 FORMAN LECTURE

From the Making of an Englishman to the Last King of Scotland

KEVIN MACDONALD IN CONVERSATION

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THURSDAY 28 JUNE
THEATRES Cosmo Rodewald John Thaw Bragg
9.00 - 11.00

RAI & BASIL WRIGHT PRIZE SCREENINGS

African Futures

Merchants of Miracles (64) - Gilles Remiche, 2007, 52', Belgium/Democratic Republic of Congo

Les Jours à Côté - Days Aside (196) - Ella Pugliese, Iliana Estañol, 2005, 46', Germany/Burkina Faso

BLACKWELL STUDENT PRIZE SCREENINGS

Childhood Stories

Tanju Miah (239) - Sadik Ahmed, 2006, 13', UK/Bangladesh

Hangai Herds (153) - Natasha Fijn, 2006, 60', Australia/Mongolia

Tiempo de Vals (148) - Rebecca Savage, 2006, 22', UK/México

ARCHAEOLOGY & MATERIAL CULTURE PRIZE SCREENINGS

Circuses and Carnivals

The Devil's Mills (156) - János Tari, 2006, 55', Hungary

The Prilep Bear Men (251) - Sonja Rizoska Jovanovska, Ivo Kuzmanic, 2006, 28', Macedonia

[ends 10.45]

Coffee

11.30 - 13.00

Mirror of the Man

SchoolScapes (41) - David MacDougall, 2007, 77', Australia/South India

[begins 11.15]

Caribbean Crossroads

The Knight of Paris (9) - Ricardo Martensen, 2007, 32', Cuba

Mangrove Music (10) - Carlo Cubero, 2006, 49', UK/Puerto Rico [Also eligible for the Music and Perfomance Prize]

[begins 11.15]

Asian Rites of Passage

The Ascetic Eye (50) - Paraveen Kumar, 2006, 59', India

The Last Honours(184) - Birgitte Glavind Sperber, 2006, 30', Denmark/Pakistan

Lunch

14.00 - 16.00

Gentle Goodbyes

Fragments of the Owl's Egg (90) - Kim McKenzie, 2006, 38', Australia

A Hospice in Amsterdam (1)- Steef PM Meyknecht, 2005, 62', Netherlands

ARCHAEOLOGY & MATERIAL CULTURE PRIZE SCREENINGS

(cont.)

The Social Life of Things

[The four films in this section are also eligible for the Student Prize]

Sam Laguna at the British Museum (42)- Wendy Zakiewcz, 2006, 8', UK

Living Through Things (4) - Anna Waddell, 2005, 30', UK

Diablos Rojos: Los buses de Panamá (89)- Nina Muller-Schwarze, 2005, 42', USA/México

Do buy! A Dubai Documentary/ Ethnographic film (181) - Omair Barkatulla, 2006, 23', UK/Dubai

SPECIAL INTEREST SCREENING

Changes and Challenges of Rural Life

Hinterrhein. The Challenge of Change (23) - Lisa Röösli, 2005, 82', Switzerland

[ends at 15.45]

Tea

16.30 - 18.00

African Futures (cont.)

Room 11, Ethiopia Hotel (194) - Itsushi Kawase, 2006, 21', Japan/Ethiopia

A Future of Mud: The Tale of a Mason's Story (247) - Susan Vogel, 2007, 55', USA/Mali

From Nature to Culture

Textiles in Ayacucho (140) - Peter Biella, 2006, 13', Spain/USA/Perú

A Life with Slate (61) - Dipesh Kharel, 2006, 59', Norway/Nepal [Also eligible for Student Prize]

[begins 16.00]

Television Anthropology

Tales from the Jungles - Malinowski and The Trobriand Islanders (263) - Sophie Harris, 2007, 60', UK

BBC Tribe - Layap (287) - Gavin Searle, 2007, 60', UK/Bhutan

Wine Reception (Bridgeford Building)

19.00 - 21.00

DEBATE

Anthropology on Television: Education or Entertainment?

Chaired by Anna Ford

Co-ordinated by André Singer

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FRIDAY 29 JUNE
THEATRES Cosmo Rodewald John Thaw Bragg
9.00 - 11.00

RAI & BASIL WRIGHT PRIZE SCREENINGS (cont.)

Men and Women

Every Good Marriage Begins with Tears (11) - Simon Chambers, 2006, 62', UK

Q2P (71) - Paromita Vohra, 2006, 53', India

ARCHAEOLOGY & MATERIAL CULTURE PRIZE SCREENINGS (cont.)

Cultural Performance, Cultural Resistance

Iauareté, Waterfall of the Jaguars (78) - Vincent Carelli, 2006, 48', Brazil

BLACKWELL STUDENT PRIZE SCREENINGS (cont.)

Everyday Life of Roma Children of Block 71 (226) - Ivana Todorovic, 2006, 14', Serbia Montenegro

Growing Pains (165) - Cecilie Øien, 2006, 41', UK/Portugal


MUSIC & PERFORMANCE PRIZE SCREENINGS

Cultural Performance, Cultural Resistance

Teshumara. Guitars of Tuareg Rebellion (228) - Jéremie Reichenbach, 2006, 51', France/Chad, Mali

PANEL

Visualizing Childhood

Co-ordinated by Cecilie Øien and Rachel Webster

Coffee

11.30 - 13.00

Indigenous Visions

The Agouti’s Peanut (74) - Paturi & Komoi Panarà, 2005, 51', Brazil

Romuepatsro (94) - Wilton Martínez, Espiritú Bautista, Richard Chase Smith, 2006, 23', Perú

Acting like a Thief (73) - Kerim Friedman, Shashwati Talukdar, 2005, 15', India

Ghanaian Video Tales (15) - Tobias Wendl, 2006, 60', Germany/Ghana

Lunch

THEATRES Cosmo Rodewald John Thaw Bragg
14.00 - 16.00

[begins 13.45]

Asian Journeys

Machhendranath. On the Road with the Red God (224) - Kesang Tseten, 2005, 72', Nepal

The Quest for Sound (47) - Laetitia Merli, 2005, 54', France/Mongolia

Dance to Live – Live to Dance!

Keep the Dance Alive (31) - Rina Sherman, 2007, 76', France/Namibia

Temporary Sanity: The Skerrit Bwoy Story (166) - Dan Bruun, 2006, 32', UK/USA [Also eligible for Student Prize]

SPECIAL INTEREST SCREENINGS

Visible and Invisible

Cham in the Lepcha Village of Lingthem (123) - Dawa Lepcha, Anna Balikci, Asen Balikci, 2007, 52', India

Shade Seekers and the Mixer (171) - Richard Werbner, 2006, 56', UK/Botswana

[ends 16.30]

Tea

16.30 - 18.00

Animals & Human Being

Going for the Kill. A Very English Village (264) - Luke Holland, 2006, 75', UK

The Social Life of Music

Record Store (139)- Matthew Durington, 2006, 36', USA

Pulse, a video with Alessandra (152) - Rose Satiko Hikiji 2006, 32', Brazil

Cross Over (8) - Nana O Ayim, 2006, 6', Ghana [Also eligible for Student Prize]

[begins 16.45]

Crossing Gender Boundaries

God is with us. Man, that is (256) - Jan Sosinski, 2005, 49', Poland/Albania

Roya and Omid (92) - Elhum Shakerifar, 2006, 17', UK [Eligible for the Student Prize]

Wine Reception (Bridgeford Building)

19.00 - 21.00

37 Uses For a Dead Sheep (132) - Ben Hopkins, 2006, 85', UK/Turkey

[begins 19.15]

Maintaining the Tradition

Oss Tales (131) - John Bishop, 2007, 25', USA/Padstow, Cornwall

Singing (87) - Rossella Schillaci, 2007, 57', Italy

Muxes-Authentic, Intrepid Seekers of Danger (150) - Alejandra Islas, 2006, 105', México

Transfiction (160) - Johannes Sjöberg, 2007, UK/Brazil

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SATURDAY 30 JUNE
THEATRES Cosmo Rodewald John Thaw Bragg
9.00 - 11.00

CHINA DAY SCREENINGS 1

RAI & BASIL WRIGHT PRIZE SCREENINGS (cont.)

Recording the Past, Regretting the Present

The Bimo Records (27) - Yang Rui, 2006, 91', PR China

[ends 10.45]

Personal Stories

Dancing Kathmandu (60) - Sangita Shresthová, 2007, 40', Nepal/Czech Republic

CHINA DAY SCREENINGS 2

The Next Generation

Kindergarten (281) - Yiqing Zhang, 2004, 69', China

The Graduates (285) - Lei Jianjun, 2003, (extract), China

SPECIAL INTEREST SCREENINGS

Personal Stories

The Seeker (67) - Philippe Cornet, 2007, 54', Belgium

Remembering John Marshall (82) - Alice Apley, David Tamés, 2005, 16', USA

Coffee

11.30 - 13.00

[begins 11.10]

After Passing (102) - Hu Tai-Li, 2006, 11', Taiwan

The Art of Regret (20) - Judith MacDougall, 2007, 59', Australia/PR China

[ends 12.45 latest]

Visit Palestine (262) - Katie Barlow, 2005, 78', UK/Palestine

Resisting the State

A Town in Migration (282) - Guo XiZhi, 2005, 84', China

13 - 14.00

CONFERENCE

3.15 - 3.45 - Break

CONFERENCE

Lunch

14 - 16.30

CHINA DAY SCREENINGS 1

Tradition and Change in the City

Ancestral House (283) - Sun Zengtian, Xu Dan, 2001, 54', China

The Everlasting Forbidden City (243) - Zhou Bing, 2005, 60', China

[begins 13.45]

Recording the Past, Regretting the Present (cont.)

Face Value (284) - Li Xin, 2003, 35', China

Tradition and change in the country

Tibetan Woman's Life (116) - Puhua Dongzhi, 2006, 52', China

Tea

16.30 - 18.00

Seeking New Lives

Going to Town (62) - Bei Xu, Zhang Lu, 2006, 80', China

Transformation (286) - Yang Gangcai, Yang Yi , 2004, 70', China

18.00

Wine Reception sponspored by Blackwell Publishing (Bridgeford Building)

19.00

Granada Centre presentation: In the Twinkling of an Eye, 1987-2007 (Cosmo Rodewald Theatre)

19.05

PRIZE GIVING CEREMONY (Cosmo Rodewald Theatre)

19.45

Chinese Banquet, Tai Pan Restaurant

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