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Royal Anthropological Institute film festival returns for 2019
The Royal Anthropological Institute returns to Bristol for its 16th biennial film festival, which features more than 60 documentaries offering fascinating insights into other cultures.
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Running at the Watershed from March 27-30, the Festival opens with the award-winning Edge of the Knife (SGaawaay K’uuna), directed by Gwaai Edenshaw and Helen Haig-Brown, which boasts the distinction of being the first feature film in the endangered Haida language. This is spoken in the Haida Gwaii archipelago off the coast of Canada and on Prince of Wales Island in Alaska. Based on Haida oral storytelling and mythology, Edge of the Knife explores the tumultuous relationship between two noblemen.
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Safi Faye’s ‘Mossane’
Other festival highlights include a focus on the rarely seen work of pioneering female Senegalese filmmaker and ethnologist Safi Faye, a two-part celebration of Queer Brazil, a seminar on Rituals on TV with the makers of BBC’s Extraordinary Rituals and Channel 4’s Grayson Perry: Rites of Passage, competition screenings, and several packed programmes of short films. The full festival programme can be found here.
‘Elder Sister’ – exploring the impact of China’s family planning policies
You can buy a pass for the entire festival, day passes and tickets for individual screenings. Go here for further information.
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