The aim of the Ehnofest’s Ethnographic Film Database is to open up and organise the archive of the Athens Ethnographic Film Festival – that is, to provide easy and open access to a significant number of ethnographic films. We consider that these films -each one individually and all of them together as an archive- comprise an invaluable source of knowledge and information about human culture – and its study. For this reason, in 2016 we decided to organise and categorise the festival’s archive into a comprehensive and functional web database, in order to make it accessible to anyone who might be interested in it – students, researchers, teachers, professors, journalists etc.

For each film, there’s a corresponding information page in the database, which includes a summary of the film, a biographical note of its director, production data as well as the thematic categories within which the film is included. Additionally, in the occasion that the filmmaker has consented, the film will be available for viewing directly on its database page. In order to create a functional and easily searchable database, we have organised and categorised the films according to subjects and thematics which they address, depict or analyse, using a set of keywords which we consider to be central in the social sciences. Consequently, one might perform a search by using these keywords – a feature which we consider will make the database a significant research and teaching tool.

Our intention in creating this database of ethnographic films has been to respond positively and to actively contribute in the demand for open access to knowledge. We are taking this step hoping that our contribution is meaningful, in offering open and organised access to a particular kind of knowledge, ethnographic films, which we consider to be essential for the understanding of culture – as well as for the mutual understanding across cultures.

The Database of Ethnographic Films is conceived and designed by Dr. Kostas Aivaliotis and Dr. Christos Varvantakis. A large number of people have worked in its production and maintenance, and we want to thank them for their involvement at various stages of the process: Christina Liapi, Nikolas Sfakianakis, Zoi Tzamtzi, Christina Tente, Christina Zegou, Silas Michalakas, Apostolos Troulitakis, Nikoleta Kanelou.

Initial work for the database was funded by the John S. Latsis Public Benefit Foundation as part of the Scientific Societies Support Program 2016.

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  • Messosporitissa Festivity. (All-holy Mother of God of the Mid-sowing Season Festivity). Feast of Our Lady at the Ancient Ruins.
  • Kenya
  • Aeras
  • The Memory of Glitch
  • Rasputin's Shadow
  • All of Our Heartbeats Are Connected Through Exploding Stars
  • Geographies of Solitude
  • Light Across The Water
  • Informal Spaces
  • Watermelon
  • Marked
  • Iason - a young Momogeros
  • Who owns the sand?
  • Balconies
  • Piblokto
  • Multi Love: A collection of non monogamous tales
  • The Village
  • The World Saved By Girls
  • The Goat Dance
  • Feast In Drapetsona
  • Santeros
  • Carang pring wulung: the journey of a bamboo gamelan maestro
  • Silent Horizons
  • The Loukoumi of Syros: 200 Years of History
  • J.C. Abbey, Ghana's Puppeteer
  • The Sound of Bells
  • Margot
  • domy + ailucha: CENAS KETS !
  • Analogue Practices in Digital Landscapes
  • One Of Us Now
  • Esther
  • Baltic (so it is!)
  • Like Aphrodite
  • On Behalf Of The Living
  • 5 Dreamers and a horse
  • Waterways
  • Entanglements: Observations On Beach Relations
  • The Order of Things
  • Porte de Clichy
  • A Sense Of Place
  • Fires after me. Amanes song in Northern Aegean
  • Kouloutiotiko Chasapiko
  • August 15 Αt The Mountain Villages of Vlasti (Kozani) & Syrrako (Ioannina)
  • Momoeria
  • Byzantine Psaltic Art
  • The Loukoumi Of Syros: the most “expensive” sweet treat
  • Super-8 diaries
  • Under the White Mask: The Film That Haesaerts Could Have Made
  • Letters2Maybe
  • Light Upon Light
  • Looking for horses
  • Blooming On The Asphalt
  • Reassemblage
  • Rooms With A View
  • What About China?
  • Sami´s Odysseys
  • The Place Between Was & Will Be
  • Garden Of Hope
  • The Andean Screen
  • In Flow of Words
  • Marija + Toma
  • The World is Blue at its edges
  • Ten By Ten
  • Triplex Confinium
  • Crosses
  • Moss
  • Princess
  • Roots
  • Creatures of the Lines
  • Suzu
  • Pupus
  • Whatever Grandma Says
  • Fieldnotes from Limanakia
  • Caramba Cariocas
  • Hallelujah
  • Last Night I Took a Walk in The Sun
  • Lost Mother
  • The Collector
  • Lesia
  • Mamadoo
  • Coffee Notes
  • Land of Milk and Honey
  • Τhis Rain Will Never Stop
  • Radio Riders
  • Attention All Passengers
  • Marea
  • Spirits and Rocks: an Azorean Myth
  • KIKI
  • My Mother
  • Our Garbage The Other One's Treasure
  • A Common Space For 852 Doors
  • No Clue About The Future
  • The Body Won't Close
  • Bosco
  • The Last Austrians
  • The Sacred Bagpipe
  • Bagpipes of the Pierian Mountains. Giannis Svarnogiannis.
  • Warble the Bagpipes
  • The Tiger from Aperathos
  • Stolen Fish
  • Τhe Snow Calls
  • Talking Dreams
  • A Peaceful Place
  • I Am Belmaya
  • AIT ATTA: Nomads Of The High Atlas
  • Dorin And Dorina
  • Little Pakistan - Future Histories
  • Among The Plants
  • Mathilde And The Love Room
  • House Of Light
  • The journey of Askavlos
  • Slow Return
  • Faces of Change | Afghanistan l Part A
  • Faces of Change | Afghanistan | Part B
  • Threshold
  • Family Song
  • The Healer and the Psychiatrist
  • Kunami Che'e: To Wrap Oneself With The Nagua
  • Hengdian Dreaming
  • Back to Life
  • Olha's Italian Diary
  • Half Elf
  • Tears of Inge
  • Borderlands
  • Hands in Bleach
  • Withering Refuge
  • Requerimiento
  • Scenes from a Transient Home
  • Call Me Back
  • Speak Up
  • Shamans Of The Blind Country
  • Terra Incognita
  • Bearing
  • Sing Me L’ Internationale
  • Queen Of Chaos
  • Drawing Across The Lines Of Colour
  • Ghostly
  • Those Who Have Eyes To See, Shall See
  • About Love On A Small Island
  • World
  • The Daring Young Girl On The Flying Trapeze
  • Saudade
  • Kosher Beach
  • Songs That Never End
  • Persistence
  • Queen of Lapa
  • Faltenrock
  • Constructions
  • Zagros
  • Real Life
  • The Prince Of Shoes
  • Bread And A Blanket
  • Here Υou Αre
  • Love Me, Love Me Not
  • UHURU: Coups And The Promise Of Freedom
  • Crawling In The Dust
  • Aghia Irene - Between Lands
  • This Day Won’t Last
  • Cloud Forest
  • Absence
  • Elsewhere, Everywhere
  • Sacred Forests of Zagori
  • St. Viniri - The Sacred Forest
  • The Fantastic
  • Specialised Technique
  • Judy versus Capitalism
  • Černobílá
  • Way My It Did I
  • Listen To Britain
  • Last round of Jaldi Five
  • The fest of Syrrako
  • A song for Epirus
  • Epirus
  • Polyphonic Caravan
  • Pericles in America
  • While You Live, Shine
  • Every Day is Not a Feast Day
  • Roots
  • Tuning Into the Verge
  • The Authenticity
  • Colored White
  • Kiki
  • The Shield
  • 13/day
  • Journey
  • Fragments: Failures in Ethnographic Filmmaking
  • Adrift
  • Across The Sea
  • Skopelitis or the ship
  • Girls in Flower
  • A remedy for the envy
  • The Village Resists
  • Tetuaneros
  • Guto and Graça
  • Da Hillsook Wedeen
  • Warehouse
  • Rivers of Sand
  • The Juggler
  • In the Devil’s Garden
  • Broken Skin
  • A Kali Temple Inside Out
  • The Depth Beneath, the Height Above
  • The Absence of Apricots
  • Horror in the Andes
  • Histories of Wolves
  • Saving Midtown: San Francisco Renters on Strike
  • La Línea
  • Normal
  • Hoa
  • City For Sale
  • Living Room
  • Voices of the Rainforest
  • The Houses We Were
  • This is my Face
  • Women's Gold
  • The Bed Factory
  • Gary
  • A New Era
  • Nou Voix
  • Tindaya Variations
  • From the Land
  • End
  • Heartbound
  • Byzantine Chant
  • “ston metro”, Great Dance at Vlasti-Kozani
  • Unsettling
  • Passager
  • (UN)WASH
  • Skaterotopia
  • Queer the City
  • Koukaki
  • Made in absence
  • Cannibal Tours
  • Istanbul Notes
  • Days of Hope
  • Persisting Dreams
  • Underground
  • Unimaginable Dreams
  • It was Tomorrow
  • A Camp is a Wall in a Forest
  • Napps - Memoire of an Invisible Man
  • Leaving Greece
  • TB in Town 2
  • Regarding Gravity
  • Why is Mr W. Laughing?
  • BOOBS
  • The Man who Disturbed the Universe
  • Sand and Blood
  • Zawawa, the sound of sugar cane in the wind
  • Knots and Holes. An essay film on the life of nets
  • Third-class Travel
  • More Earth Will Fall
  • Changa Revisited
  • Remake of a Summer
  • George's Place: The Cellar
  • Cracks
  • Between Accursed Mountains: a 'hybrid' ethnography of commodification processes in hospitality within northern Albania
  • Choir
  • After Prayers
  • Ιonas Dreams of Rain
  • The Lake
  • Nestani. Carrying Aiyioris
  • Alima
  • Next Stop: Utopia
  • The Hunters
  • Louis
  • Within Tempo
  • Polyploubo
  • Out on the Street
  • Lives in the Malls
  • Women in Uniform
  • Feeling of a Home
  • Every Single Day
  • Trinity, a Culture of Compassion
  • Praxi
  • Sensational African Collection
  • Panellinion
  • Among the Living
  • The Maribor Uprisings: A Live Participatory Film
  • e-wasteland
  • Road of a Migrant
  • Unquiet Earth
  • We The Others
  • Long Yearning
  • Ama-San
  • Other Fire
  • Undercover in Underwear
  • Shingal Where Are You?
  • Before the Wave
  • How to Rust
  • Laundry Lives: Everyday Life and Environmental Sustainability in Indonesia
  • Huáyì
  • Highway Rest Stop
  • Linefork
  • The Possibility of Spirits
  • Between Islam and the Sacred Forest
  • We Must Be Dreaming
  • Edge of the Clouds
  • When you are in the sea, where can you hide?
  • Unity: Dress-scapes of Accra
  • The Feel of History
  • Joyous are the eyes that see you
  • Going Illegal, A Border Diary
  • Promenade
  • Rembetiko
  • A Celebration of Origins
  • Unity Through Culture
  • New Voices in an Old Flower
  • No Parking
  • The Sweethearts and the Dragon
  • Urban Nomad
  • The Coop
  • Down Payment
  • Water Church
  • The Town They Couldn’t Give Away
  • Borderless
  • Anamones
  • Crazy Old Ladies
  • Mr. President
  • Evaporating Borders
  • Eufrosina’s Revolution
  • A Woman’s Story
  • The Bride of the Nile
  • Beneath the Tide
  • Beaver Bar
  • The Ethos of City Plaza
  • Less is Home
  • Varvakios, the Stomach of Athens
  • Floisvos Park
  • Recurring Melodies
  • Forest of Bliss
  • Cadences
  • Biographies of Struggle
  • Working Dancers
  • Long Life Sutra
  • Making a Living in the Dry Season
  • Maputo
  • At Low Tide
  • Gbaya - Beekeeping and Honey Hunting
  • Chosen People
  • Division Avenue
  • Limpiadores
  • Portrait of a Cooperative
  • Transition Blu
  • Image Acts
  • I’m not Leaving Eldon
  • Extended Family
  • The Land of Udehe
  • What Life is like Here
  • Trans X Istanbul
  • Nobel Nok Dah
  • Mariupol
  • A Dream School In the Steppes
  • Eat your Children
  • Votsalakia
  • The Domino Effect
  • The Time is Now
  • The Children of Kypseli Square
  • Speak Out
  • My Name is Prosfygika
  • No Money, No Problem
  • Kipaki of Tsamadou
  • To Work is to Grow. Organised Child Workers and Their Demands
  • Athens Grace
  • Island of Dreams
  • Swamp Dialogues
  • The Lost Land
  • Solaris
  • Strange Beasts: The Private Life of an English Farm
  • Plateful of Junk
  • In Praise of Shadows
  • City Play
  • Haraka Baraka: Movement is a Blessing
  • Black Coal
  • The Girls are Here
  • News from Home
  • Berlenga Grande
  • Roma Short Stories
  • Me ant the Others
  • Roaring Abyss
  • Dowsing the Past: Materialities of Civil War Memories
  • Islam's Wedding... and Other Bedouin Stories form Naqab
  • "...Only holds the mallet..." Tinian Marble-Carving Today
  • British Born Chinese
  • The Mirror Bride
  • Valley of Sighs
  • Not All Plants Dye
  • Ghost's Stories
  • Other Europe
  • Stationed
  • Descending with Angels
  • Document: Hoyerswerda| Frontex
  • Fantome Island
  • The Lion Hunters
  • The Mad Masters
  • The Magicians of Wanzerbé
  • Yenendi, the Men who Make the Rain
  • Cemetery in the Cliff
  • Initation into Possesion Dance
  • Moro-Naba
  • Last Pioneers
  • Dead Birds
  • Battle on the Great River
  • 50 Years Later...
  • A Life Suspended
  • GHORA - Waiting for Goddess
  • On Common Ground
  • Rebel Menopause
  • Luiz da Rocha
  • Noise That Brings Money
  • Cast in India
  • Common Roads - Pilmigrage and Backpacking in the 21st Century
  • Hip-Hop, My Release
  • Amchi
  • Because of Today
  • Behind the Wheel
  • Oasis Boulevard
  • The Happiness of the Ladies
  • To Whom Earth Belongs
  • 4/2/11
  • Blush
  • Divine Comedy
  • Dusty NIght
  • Fournoi, A Female Society
  • Spata, Saint Peter's Stew
  • The Coalers
  • Healthcare Without Borders
  • Orania
  • The Message of Issa Ber
  • The One and the Many
  • The Retirement of Mr. And Mrs. Zhang
  • At Seventeen
  • Framing the Other
  • Rest of Athens
  • Sea Boundary
  • The Chairman and the Lions
  • Memory Objects, Memory Dialogues
  • Merqana
  • Mr Coperthwaite: A Life in the Maine Woods
  • Our Missionaries
  • Broken Vows
  • How to Build a Kamra-e-faoree
  • Julia
  • Toku Fenua
  • Women Moving Forward
  • A Letter to Mohamed
  • Being Anthropologist: the Happiness of the Masters
  • Congo Super 8
  • Exegersi (Revolt) or Mom's Recipe for Boiled Eggs
  • Searcy County
  • Together as One
  • The Rain Memory
  • Tiles of Buenos Aires
  • Café-Finovo
  • Looking for a Treasure in the Backyard
  • Luis
  • Mazamorra
  • My Name is Teresa. I Am Cooking Corn with Ashes for my Grandchlidren to Eat
  • Funeral Season
  • West Edges
  • Fishing with Fija
  • Gorri
  • Tales and Myths on the Back of the Centaur
  • The Problem Of Choosing
  • The Well: Water Voices from Ethiopia
  • (Dis) location - Sampa
  • Notes From The Underground
  • Songs of Memory, Songs of Loss
  • Day In, Day Out: Selling Food in Bangkok
  • Dimitsana: "Moving Towards the New Century..."
  • Lord of Miracles
  • Mary in Times of Crisis
  • Looking at Themselves
  • Shooting Freetown
  • Without Earth We Are Not Shuar
  • The Honey Hunting
  • Drums on the Red River
  • Owners of the Water: Conflict and Collaboration Over Rivers
  • She River: Encounters by the River Po and Surroundings
  • 28 Days on the Moon
  • Louisiana Story
  • Primary
  • The Chair
  • Between Two Villages
  • Treasure of the Lisu
  • Tenere: Mapping the Desert
  • Dimitsana - work in progress
  • Life Sinks Three Times, Rises Seven and Nine Times Floats Adrift...
  • Old Man Peter
  • People & Pasties
  • Promise and Unrest
  • Golden Scars
  • Blood
  • Born to Break
  • Coffee Futures
  • Faux Vintage: A Social History of the Electric Guitar
  • What Has to Be Photographed!
  • What Keeps Them Going
  • White Sunshine Weather
  • Women of Sfakia and Other Stories
  • In the Light of Memory
  • Lessons from the Tiger
  • Men at Work
  • Spare Time
  • The Saving of Bill Blewitt
  • Bitter Roots
  • Europaland
  • Industrial Britain
  • Night Mail
  • Shipyard
  • Song of Ceylon
  • A Midsummer Day's Work
  • Children at School
  • Granton Trawler
  • Housing Problems
  • Demolition
  • The Camp
  • Sifinja - The Iron Bride
  • Art of Exile
  • Kostakis
  • Memories for Sale
  • Bunong's Birth Practices
  • Notes on Gesture
  • Enduring Life
  • Fortune
  • Return to Spina-longa
  • Feeling from Outside
  • 30 Square Meters and A Balcony
  • Dear Little Shamrock
  • Side Effects
  • Doing the Norway
  • Trees Tropiques
  • My Mom's Name is Jean?
  • Short story
  • Standing place
  • Traditional water management among the Stromi village people
  • Window shopping
  • Azouba's bread
  • Pam & Ashraf
  • Royal Nebraska
  • Shiritori- begin with the end
  • Crossroads
  • Everyday life of Roma children from Block 71
  • Galamsey
  • Gloria crossing borders
  • Kafkanistan
  • After the rain came: 7 short stories about objects and lifeworlds