Ethnografilm Paris

2026 Program Part I 2026 Program Part II (I to Z)

The festival will be held from 2-5 April 2026.

Thursday evening reception 6-9pm

Friday through Sunday we show films beginning at 1pm daily

FRIDAY
	1pm
Misha	60
Chiacchieria	20
On the Roofs of Those Who Sleep	15
Why Wouldn’t You?	13
Rag Dolls	12

	120
	3:30pm
Ghost’s of Aldernay: Hitler’s Island Slaves	52
My Voice Journey	18
Cartas De Amor	8
The Darkness	26
Evidence for the future	15

	119
	6pm
Have You Seen My Gods?	52
Brown – An Archaeological Perspective	21
The Sea in the Blood	19
Sacred Coils	18
Sleeping With The Dragon	10


	120
	8:30pm
The Last Picture Shows	60
The Empire Writes Back	28
Fandango in Chinameca	17
The Sky Is Falling	9
Humalos	6

	120

Saturday
	1pm
Iceland, On the Trail of Democracy	58
Run and Drive	24
Defensa, the right to work	23
Freedom of Speech: Giordano Bruno	15


	120
	3:30pm
The Lama’s Son	52
Life Where the Dead Rest	27
Spark in the Meadow	17
Milton’s Mulberry	20
Festival of Community: Pipe Dreams	3

	119
	6pm
A Tale of Two Quallunaat	48
The Time of Life	27
Bamako Chic	27
Hands	4
Pulse	14


	120
	8:30pm
The Help of the Invisibles: Himalayan Oracles	52
Sunrise Xuejian	28
Monument	16
Tumbling Towards Home	15
Flag Burning	9

	120

Sunday
	1pm
Cutting Light to Shadow	34
Buryat in European Cinema	20
As a miner, I live	20
Eternal Echoes	20
Boller Street	14
Ten Cents: The Photography of Mike Flynn	11
	119
	3:30pm
Maasai Eunoto	33
The Fields of Women in Madagascar	29
Following the Thread	20
Gert’s Boys	20
Memoria Collectiva	15

	117
	6pm

Just a Flight	13
X-Evangelicals	10
Michael Brims	10
Behold the Passing Fancies	6
Café Blues	9
Dodecahedron	17
Small and Big	33
The Intersection	30
How To Groom Your Rabbit	19
The Spin Disturber	10



	173

2025 Program

2024 Program

2023 Program

Submitters of longer films please note that we will ask for a “broadcast length” version of 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.