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9TH RAI INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL:

LOOKING BACK, LOOKING FORWARD

September 18th – 21st, 2005

Aims

The Festival provides a prestigious international forum to increase the accessibility of anthropological films to academic and media professionals and the general public in Britain and Europe. The Festival's primary role is to present recent, unreleased or rare films. The Festival and its accompanying workshops, master classes, conferences or retrospectives provides an opportunity to discover and appreciate films and other audio-visual productions from an artistic, anthropological (sociological) or historical point of view. It explores new trends in ethnographic filmmaking and aims to be a platform of communication and the building of relationship between professionals (encouraging students in particular), the industry and the local community in general.

Ethnographic films contribute to an intercultural dialogue and raise awareness in local communities. They influence other genres of documentary filmmaking and the festival is therefore capable of attracting a wide showcase for new filmmaker talent. It provides a major marketing platform and discussion forum about the way in which this genre is developing and debates about the boundaries between ethnographic and other forms of documentary filmmaking and visual anthropology.