This summer, Ethnofest heads outdoors with a special screening programme at Stella Open-Air Cinema. Over two evenings, the screenings are dedicated to women who choose to tell their stories through documentary film. Five films from different countries and historical periods come together to create a journey through the complex realities of work. Exploring women’s experiences, …
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Ethnofest is being reconfigured, proposing new actions, educational activities and collective forms of cultural intervention, while maintaining its restless spirit and its desire to invent creative ways of connecting cinema with ethnography, and artistic inspiration with social research. The next chapter of Ethnofest arrives through a rich annual programme centred on the production and dissemination …
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Τhe Athens Ethnographic Film Festival – Ethnofest is happy to announce its collaboration with the 15th Balkans Beyond Borders Short Film Festival (BBB) which will be organized at the island of Spetses. The event will feature a curated selection of documentaries from Ethnofest’s annual “Athens Summer School in Visual Ethnographic Practices” program, showcasing exceptional works by …
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The Athens Ethnographic Film Festival – Ethnofest is happy to announce the upcoming screenings of “Alima” in Greece and abroad! Alima, an Ethnofest production in collaboration with the Mediterranean Institute for Nature and Antropos (MedINA), directed by Loukas Koubouris and Nickolas Papadimitriou, premiered in November 2017 at the 8th Athens Ethnographic Film Festival – Ethnofest, …
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Alima, a film by Loukas Koubouris and Nickolas Papadimitriou, is an Ethnofest production in collaboration with the Mediterranean Institute for Nature and Antropos (MedINA). The film is based on an ethnographic observation of the daily routine of the fishermen at the Mesolonghi-Aitoliko Lagoon. Over the centuries, local communities around the Messolonghi lagoon in Greece have developed …
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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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