EASA2020 logo16th EASA Biennial Conference
New anthropological horizons in and beyond Europe
21-24 July 2020 in Lisbon
ISCTE-University Institute of Lisbon and ICS-Institute of Social Sciences, University of Lisbon

EASA2020 Lisboa - Film programme

22 accepted films as list 4 days 12 sessions

Tuesday 21 July

Alternative Storytelling
Film Screening + Q/A: 8:30-10:45
LIVE Q/A: 9:50

Histórias de Lobos
(Faber) A collection of stories related with wolves in the northern mountains of Portugal. Agnes Meng 2018 | 22’ | Portugal
Des Racines, un Loi
(Many Roots, One Law) What new challenges do African medical traditions face when they are recognized and governed by law? Duchesne Véronique 2019 | 37’ | Ivory Coast / France

Bees and Humans
Film Screening + Q/A: 11:00-13:00
LIVE Q/A: 12:35

Eine Frage der Haltung
(Beewildered Companions) A film on sensory and discursive multi-species encounters related to competing knowledge practices in the current honeybee health crisis. Felix Remter and Miriam Remter 2020 | 87’ | Russia / Germany

(Don't) Look Back
Film Screening + Q/A: 14:00-16:00
LIVE Q/A: 15:05

Ghostly A visual essay on the emotional and spatial aspect of the new wave of Turkish migration to Berlin, through the testimonies of anonymised migrants. S. Buse Yildirim 2019 | 12’ | Germany / Turkey
Tokyo Pengyou The relationship between migration, emergent forms of sociality, and friendship. Jamie Coates 2018 | 47’ | Japan / China

Wednesday 22 July

Sounding for Environments
Film Screening + Q/A: 8:30-10:30
LIVE Q/A: 9:45

Guardians of the Night When the night falls in Guantánamo and invades the streets, other forms of life emerge. Alexandrine Boudreault-Fournier and Eleonora Diamanti 2018 | 17’ | Cuba / Canada
沖波
(Okinami) An annual communal celebration in Japan, a collective strenuous effort, depicted through a sensory lens. Can Tamura (John Wells) 2019 | 24’ | Japan
La Madonna del Mare
(The Bride of the Sea) A portrait of an Italian fisherwoman and of the tireless flow through which she looks at her 78-years career. Valentina Lanci 2019 | 30’ | Italy / Norway

(Un)Making Memories
Film Screening + Q/A: 11:00-13:00
LIVE Q/A: 12:35

芦笙絮语
(Playing for the Ancestors) A look at the dispersed Hmong community and its precious musical instrument and songs. Manman Yang, Jacob R. Hickman 2020 | 36’ | China / United States
Persistencia
(Persistence) Human remains: A forensic journey through landscapes of disappearance in Mexico. Anne Huffschmid and Jan-Holger Hennies 2019 | 54’ | Mexico / Germany

Owning Culture
Film Screening + Q/A: 14:00-16:00
LIVE Q/A: 15:15

Maasai Remix Drawing strength from local traditions, modifying them when necessary, and melding them with new resources are ways of owning culture. Ron Mulvihill and Kelly Askew 2019 | 67’ | Tanzania / USA

Thursday 23 July

Embodied Violence
Film Screening + Q/A: 8:30-10:30
LIVE Q/A: 9:45

Zigzag An animated film about women’s freedom and constraints beyond invisible borders. Zeynep Merve Uygun 2018 | 9’ | Turkey
After Prayers The story of Kashmir's conflict narrated through various life stories of people for whom violence is a cycle embedded in their everyday lives. Simone Mestroni 2018 | 61’ | Italy

(Dis)harmonies
Film Screening + Q/A: 11:00-13:00
LIVE Q/A: 12:20

Sudanese Industrial Sound: Sonic Labour in a Truck Workshop An experimental work on manual labour, sound and rhythm of Sudanese lorry-blacksmiths. Valerie Hänsch 2019 | 3’ | Sudan / Germany
Red Earth White Snow A first-person and filial ethnographic examination of (post-)colonial and Christian domination. Inequality prevails, the future is still unfulfilled. Christine Moderbacher 2018 | 71’ | Nigeria / Austria

Reflexive Encounters
Film Screening + Q/A: 14:00-16:00
LIVE Q/A: 15:40

Nous Sommes Ensemble
(We are Together) A reflexive account on the entanglement of research and social dynamics of power between a visual anthropology student and his main interlocutor in Ngaoundéré, Cameroon. Ascanio Varroni 2019 | 33’ | Cameroon / Norway
Esta es Mi Cara
(This is My Face) A film revealing what lies inside a journey with HIV in Chile. Angélica Cabezas Pino 2019 | 58’ | Chile / UK

Friday 24 July

Industrial Beings
Film Screening + Q/A: 8:30-10:30
LIVE Q/A: 10:00

The Mill A factory staffed by a small number of people yet crammed full of sound and image and activity, generates a hypnotic immersiveness of its sensory environment. Daniel Edward Allen, Patrick Tubin McGinley 2018 | 34’ | Estonia
Nimble Fingers Vietnamese women who work in factories owned by some of the most popular worldwide electronic brands have nimble fingers, but also dreams and fears. Parsifal Reparato 2018 | 52’ | Vietnam

Chains of Labour
Film Screening + Q/A: 11:00-13:00
LIVE Q/A: 12:40

Transmutação - O Bater dos Últimos Teares
(Transmutation - The Beat of the Last Looms) Contemporary soundscaping meets the endangered knowledge of ancestral weaving in Alentejo, Portugal. João Meirinhos 2018 | 22’ | Portugal
Le Goût de l'Espoir
(Taste of Hope) In a world driven by competition and capital, workers of a self-managed tea factory struggle to survive against all odds. Laura Coppens 2019 | 71’ | France / Switzerland, Germany

Future?
Film Screening + Q/A: 14:00-16:00
LIVE Q/A: 15:15

Palimpsest of the Africa Museum The renovation of the Royal Museum for Central Africa and fundamental questions to ask for its renewal. Matthias De Groof 2019 | 69’ | Belgium