Since its very beginning, the Athens Ethnographic Film Festival has aimed at making the Festival accessible to wider audiences and promoting the educational and reflexive dimension of ethnographic cinema on social and political consideration. Thus, in 2014 the Festival introduced a themed section, which focuses on a different topic every year. This year’s tribute emphasizes …
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The Athens Ethnographic Film Festival and the Fårö Creative Learning center are organizing a seminar on ethnographic cinema, ideal for anthropology students, educators, journalists, amateur filmmakers and/or ethnographic film enthusiasts. The seminar, which will focus on filmic portraits, will be conducted by Silas Michalakas, Christos Varvantakis, and Konstantinos Aivaliotis. The main aim is to familiarize the participants …
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The Netherlands Institute at Athens, the Athens Ethnographic Film Festival, the department of Social and Cultural Anthropology of the VU Amsterdam in cooperation with the Laboratory of Anthropological Research of Panteion University, are organising an intensive summer school in collaboration with Dutch and Greek universities, for the third year in a row. The course will …
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The Athens Ethnographic Film Festival continues the exploration of the world through anthropology and image and is announcing a call for films made by anthropologists (or specialists with related background), including students’ works submitted as dissertations or as assignments. The Athens Ethnographic Film Festival is looking for: – student films made by anthropologists (or scientists …
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Five days and more than 50 screenings later, the 7th Athens Ethnographic Film Festival came to an end last night. Thank you all for your support, your interest, the post-screening discussions and the near-capacity crowds. See you all in 2017!
The 7th Athens Ethnographic Film Festival will be taking place between November 23rd – 27th at Astor Cinema in downtown Athens. This year’s edition will be bigger than ever, featuring more than 50 films in six sections: Panorama, Student Films, Special Screenings, Tributes, Intangible Cultural Heritage and Summer School. Diggers look for clams on the …
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The Athens Ethnographic Film Festival supports the Break the Chain Festival #2, a social awareness campaign on the issue of human trafficking, by curating its film screening section. Two fiction features that could have been documentaries and three documentaries which unfortunately are not fiction, will be screened on Saturday October 22nd and Sunday October 23rd at …
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After many months of planning and hard work, we are very happy to share our new website with you all! Apart from improving the structure and layout of the already existing information, we have created something more substantial and innovating: a thorough database, which will be based on the Festival’s significant archive, organized in a …
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The Anthropologiki Etairia Athinon (Athens Anthropological Society) has decided to engage in film production in the social sciences. A first attempt in this direction is the coordination and production of the documentary film “Living with Hard Times” for the EU FP7 Programme Livewhat (http://www.livewhat.unige.ch/). The project is a research collaboration between scholars from Universities in …
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