Call for films
Film submission deadline: 31 August 2022
We are accepting submissions for feature-length, short, and medium format documentaries and anthropological / ethnographic films for our 2023 hybrid edition. We are open to work released
after September 2020.
Hosted by the Royal Anthropological Institute, UK, the biennial
RAI FILM FESTIVAL will take place online and in person in March 2023.
Established in 1985, we are a world-leading forum for exploring the multiple relationships between documentary film-making, anthropology, and visual culture. We aim to promote the understanding
of cultural diversity and intercultural dialogue through film.
With the support of leading academic partners from major international universities, we offer workshops, masterclasses, a conference, work-in-progress sessions, and retrospectives. We aim to maximize
discovery and discussion around films and other multimodal productions from an anthropological, artistic, historical, and educational point of view.
This time our festival will take place both online and offline: films will be available for a month on our streaming platform (3-31 March); we will hold a 5-day online conference to bring filmmakers
and academics together (6-10 March); and a 3-day in-person event at the Watershed Cinema in Bristol, UK (23-25 March).
The RAI Film Festival celebrates the best in international documentaries with 8 awards: RAI Film Prize; RAI Short Film Prize; Basil Wright Prize; Wiley Blackwell Student Prize; Audience Prize; Lifetime
Achievement Award, President’s Award, Richard Werbner Award for Visual Ethnography and the Ethnomusicology Film Award.
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