Schedule of Films 17 – 20 April 2025
| April 17 – Friday |
| 1pm |
| Sisyphus Beach |
| Tichilesti – The Place of Lepers |
| Gods on Earth: Everyday Sacred In A Global City |
| When Truck Leaves Home |
| Hasami (Scissors) |
| Sheikh Mand Temple |
| 3:30pm |
| Final Vows |
| AI in the Street: Drone Observatory |
| “Exactly, a Total Work of Art!” |
| We are the music |
| SONALLUS- BELLS |
| 6pm |
| Dindigul Diaries |
| Imaginings |
| Pintados |
| Missing Time |
| Ag Fab |
| 8:30pm |
| Open Gasy |
| Hopa lide |
| Talking Guns Project |
| sounds for a wounded landscape |
| The Well |
| Across the Border |
| April 20 Saturday | |
| 1pm | |
| WALL OF DEATH GYPSY | 52 |
| Solar Book | 9 |
| Stop: The House of Music | 19 |
| Where the Trees Grow | 33 |
| Lunette | 8 |
| 3:30pm | |
| The Waste Commons | 61 |
| Hanging Out | 20 |
| Histela | 14 |
| This week doesn’t really exist | 5 |
| ROOTS UNEARTHED | 20 |
| 6pm | |
| Hot Jazz Saturday Night | 6 |
| Winter Taiga | 49 |
| PIRARUCU, THE BREATH OF THE AMAZON | 20 |
| C H I M E R A | 14 |
| Night Towns | 7 |
| Encounters in Asturias | 21 |
| 8:30pm | |
| Monisto | 33 |
| Histories of Smugglers | 20 |
| Birth of Light | 23 |
| The Myth of Inkari | 11 |
| A World in the Evening | 9 |
| Take Care, Tar Creek | 7 |
| April 20 Sunday | |
| 1pm | |
| In the Land of Palm Oil | 52 |
| Plastic Tourism | 18 |
| Born of the Ice | 16 |
| How Iran targets activists everywhere | 15 |
| The Titanic of Southampton | 13 |
| metempsychosis | 4 |
| 3:30pm | |
| I’ve Survived: Ole Belle Reed in Paris | 15 |
| Bread in Kalasha tradition | 15 |
| Scaum | 10 |
| School Me! | 10 |
| Myths of Shea | 5 |
| Ritual Disrobement | 10 |
| The Attic and Its Secrets | 8 |
| 155 Years of the Bulgarian Academy of Science | 15 |
| Sijo | 29 |
| 6pm | |
| Custodians | 54 |
| Luterista | 27 |
| The Adventurers | 19 |
| Night Shift | 17 |
| Path to moksha | 18 |
Submissions are now closed for the 2025 festival on FilmFreeway. Submitters please note that unless there is screen time available we will ask for a “broadcast length” version. This is typically 52 minutes.
Please note this not an ethnographic film festival in a strict sense. It is a nonfiction film festival–all varieties of documentary film are encouraged. If you want to get a sense of what we are like before you submit, download the full program for any of our Paris festivals. Check out any year.
Note to Filmmakers–we would love to see your films from anywhere on Planet Earth, not just premodern societies and far-away places. If you have both “feature” and “broadcast” (under one hour) length, please submit the broadcast version for a higher likelihood of acceptance.
What is the Ethnografilm festival? An interview with the Director.
After the close of each day, directors retire to a nearby bar to discuss movies, & drink absinthe. Occasionally, someone sees the green faerie.
Autour du Moulin
Associated with the festival is the Journal of Video Ethnography http://videoethno.com (Gregory Scott, Editor)
No matter what…it’s April in Paris!
