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Dialektus Festival – European Documentary and Anthropological Film Festival

Budapest 16.-22.6.2010

Attracting ever more attention both in Hungary and throughout Europe, Dialektus Festival pays special attention to creating opportunities for filmmakers and other trade representatives to meet each other and their audience on professional forums, targeted, thematical events besides creating an informal, inspiring, buoyant festival-atmosphere. All because we need documentaries and documentary needs us too: to discover its priceless values, to point out to the possibilities it carries, to celebrate it, to talk about it – to treat it as well as it deserves. This is our way of encouraging dialogue between European filmmakers of different countries and different cultural backgrounds, to boost the popularity and strenghten the distribution of the documentary film.

Dialëktus Festival delayed!

Due to our main sponsor’s financial difficulties, instead of our usual March date, Dialektus Festival will take place in June this year. We’ll do our best to turn this to our advantage, with open air screenings, musical entertainment, strawberries, raspberries and a beach atmosphere! We hope the fragrant summer will do justice to the films, so we suggest daytime chillouts indoors, followed by evening garden cinema sessions with spritzers and firebugs.

The delay will not otherwise affect the usual order of the Festival. This year’s Dialektus has received 191 entries from 25 European countries, and preliminary judging is now all but finished.

Two major professional events will accompany the festival:

Docucritics’ workshop

Last year’s good memories have encouraged us to follow up the documentary film critics’ work shop with coordinators Ágnes Blaskó and Balázs Varga. focus will be on the birth of dialogue, the concepts and instruments of documentary film analysis, individual writing exercises, as well as the challenge of presenting the freshly-printed works to the audience. The workshop will be held in Hungarian.

„My Deer” Project development workshop

For the first time this year, but hopefully not the last, we are organizing a project development workshop with the support of the Visegrád Fund. We welcome those documentary projects to the workshop which are still being filmed, and are set in at least two of the Visegrád countries (Czech Republic, Poland, Hungary, Slovakia). The workshop aims to nurture coproductions and support the production of European films suitable for general distribution, giving a sensitive view of the culture and everydays of Visegrád countries. The workshop will culminate in a trial pitch.

http://www.dialektusfesztival.hu

Budapest 16.-22.6.2010

Attracting ever more attention both in Hungary and throughout Europe, Dialektus Festival pays special attention to creating opportunities for filmmakers and other trade representatives to meet each other and their audience on professional forums, targeted, thematical events besides creating…

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Festival of Visual Anthropology ASPEKTY

27.-29.11.09 Torun, Poland

“ASPEKTY” is a yearly anthropological film festival, which aims at exploring different areas of culture. The principle of the festival is to discover and present various relations, phenomena, interactions and mechanisms, which take place within a culture or between cultures. The main goal of Aspekty Film Festival is to propagate the ideas of intercultural dialogue.

The organizers of the festival want to draw attention to the subject of cultural dissimilarities, present the audience with the diversity of human experience and the multiplicity of ways of expressing oneself within a society and the world.

more information: http://www.aspektyfestival.pl

27.-29.11.09 Torun, Poland

"ASPEKTY" is a yearly anthropological film festival, which aims at exploring different areas of culture. The principle of the festival is to discover and present various relations, phenomena, interactions and mechanisms, which take place within a culture or…

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11th RAI International Festival of Ethnographic Film (Leeds)

1-4th July 2009 at Leeds Metropolitan University

The RAI International Festival of Ethnographic film moves biennially from one university host to another, in association with local community and cultural organisations.

http://raifilmfest.org.uk/film/festival/2009-static/

1-4th July 2009 at Leeds Metropolitan University

The RAI International Festival of Ethnographic film moves biennially from one university host to another, in association with local community and cultural organisations.

http://raifilmfest.org.uk/film/festival/2009-static/

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Russian Anthropological Film Festival

21-27 Sep 2008 Salekhard, capital of the Yamal-Nenets autonomous region

The First Russian Anthropological Film Festival (RAFF) is the only Russian full format competitive film festival representing rapidly developing genre of anthropological film.

The most northern in the world festival with peaceful formula art+science has already become very popular and the internationally authoritative among Russian and foreign cinematographers, managers of culture, Arctic researchers. It is reputed as content art-intellectual film festival and effective social and cultural phenomenon, and it has received set of positive responses in Russia and abroad, its film-winners were shown on all-Russian and regional TV channels.

Today RAFF serves, besides other purposes, as an experimental platform to search for new film-forms, to co-act in current search for identity and culture-building rather than just to reflect nostalgia for leaving cultural values.

http://rfaf.ru/eng/raff/153/247

21-27 Sep 2008 Salekhard, capital of the Yamal-Nenets autonomous region

The First Russian Anthropological Film Festival (RAFF) is the only Russian full format competitive film festival representing rapidly developing genre of anthropological film.

The most northern in the world festival with…

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Beeld voor Beeld 2008 – Festival of Visual Anthropology (Amsterdam)

4-8 June 2008, Tropentheater Amsterdam (NL)

Beeld voor Beeld (Image by Image) positions itself at the crossroads of visual anthropology, documentary filmmaking and politics.

Counterbalancing preconceived ideas is the main focus of the Beeld voor Beeld Festival. Rituals surrounding death in different societies, the influence of globalization on African ‘traditional’ societies, as well as the life of illegal immigrants in The Netherlands and in Spain, and Moroccan women participating in women’s running groups in their free time: these are all themes which hopefully will give the audience a better understanding of human societies.

More information: http://www.beeldvoorbeeld.nl/2en/fs.html

4-8 June 2008, Tropentheater Amsterdam (NL)

Beeld voor Beeld (Image by Image) positions itself at the crossroads of visual anthropology, documentary filmmaking and politics.

Counterbalancing preconceived ideas is the main focus of the Beeld voor Beeld Festival. Rituals surrounding death in…

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