Film

Socotra, the Island of Djinns (RAI Film Festival Ambassador screening) 19th February 2019, 5:30 pm - 7:30 pm Free   The film is the story of a journey across the island of Socotra in the Indian Ocean, off the coast of Yemen. Socotra is isolated during the monsoon season, when it is impossible to land […]

Please note: All free tickets for this event have now been allocated. We will, however, be operating a waiting list queue on the day. If seats are vacant at 11:00, we will allocate them to those waiting in the queue on a first-come first-served basis. You can join the queue from 10:30. Join us at […]

Free double-bill screening of films exploring the experiences of people living with HIV/AIDS in two different parts of the world. The End of AIDS? Wednesday 6 November at 7.00pm Free double-bill screening of films exploring the experiences of people living with HIV/AIDS in two different parts of the world. Introduced by anthropologist Gem Aellah   […]

The Royal Anthropological Institute of Great Britain and Ireland (RAI) celebrates ethnographic, anthropological and archaeological filmmaking from around the globe at the RAI Film Festival in Bristol, UK, every two years. The USC Center of Visual Anthropology brings a USC Edition of the festival to Los Angeles in alternate years. This March, USC will host […]

Fringe! Queer Film & Arts FestThe Royal Anthropological Institute and the RAI Film Festival is delighted to team up with Fringe! Queer Film & Arts Fest throughout July this year in celebration of Pride. The RAI has an extensive catalogue of documentary films which showcase the variety and diversity of human life across the world. […]

Fringe! Queer Film & Arts FestThe Royal Anthropological Institute and the RAI Film Festival is delighted to team up with Fringe! Queer Film & Arts Fest throughout July this year in celebration of Pride. The RAI has an extensive catalogue of documentary films which showcase the variety and diversity of human life across the world. […]

Fringe! Queer Film & Arts FestThe Royal Anthropological Institute and the RAI Film Festival is delighted to team up with Fringe! Queer Film & Arts Fest throughout July this year in celebration of Pride. The RAI has an extensive catalogue of documentary films which showcase the variety and diversity of human life across the world. […]

RAI Film Webinar A VIRTUAL SEMINAR BY THE ROYAL ANTHROPOLOGICAL INSTITUTE Thursday 3 December 2020 at 2-4pm (GMT)   A video of the event is available here What can we learn from children about ethnographic filmmaking?  David MacDougall, Indian children and documentary film. Dr Stephen Hughes (RAI)  In this seminar I will present material from the video […]

RAI FILM Festival programme launchFriday 12 February 4.00-6.00pm (GMT) Register for the event here: https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZcqfuqgqTwrEtcxHcejlDqIrF_DhP20z5TG  Join us for the launch of the 17th RAI FILM Festival 2021 programme. The festival team will reveal for the first time the full line-up of feature length documentaries, shorts, student films and music docs competing for our 5 prizes, as well […]

RAI Film Festival 2021 The RAI Film Festival will take place 19-28 March 2021. Please note that due to the ongoing uncertainty about COVID-19 the RAI Film Festival 2021 and the conference will take place online.  Details aboiut the Film festival can be found here https://raifilm.org.uk/rai-film-festival-2021/  

RAI Film Webinar A VIRTUAL SEMINAR BY THE ROYAL ANTHROPOLOGICAL INSTITUTE Thursday 9 September 2021 at 4-6pm (BST) Event takes place on Zoom. Please register here: https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZApduyhrDMpE9Rg-KBLVABTLKguZ4cACoYs  Multimodal inventions in conversation with  Dr Isaac Marrero-Guillamón (Goldsmiths, University of London) and Dr E. Gabriel Dattatreyan (Goldsmiths, University of London)  This talk discusses our experiences and experiments in multimodal anthropology […]

RAI Film Webinar  A VIRTUAL SEMINAR BY THE ROYAL ANTHROPOLOGICAL INSTITUTE Tuesday 19 October 2021 at 4-6pm (BST) Event takes place on Zoom. Please register here: https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZMrcuGuqzIuG9BYixLTZijJ7ivmKEHga1U0  Uma: A Water Crisis in Bolivia: a conversation with filmmaker, Ana Llacer, and Dr Esther Balboa, an Aymara and Quechua intellectual from Bolivia   The event is both a […]

RAI Film Webinar  A VIRTUAL SEMINAR BY THE ROYAL ANTHROPOLOGICAL INSTITUTE Friday 26 November 2021 at 4-6pm (BST) Event takes place on Zoom. Please register here: https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZUoduqhrzojHdJjrq-Du-kzgR4X0DSK_JnL  Collaboration, co-creation, participation and the surrender of film authorship Speaker: Karen Boswall, University of Sussex How can the embodied knowledge of the men, women and children of the world […]

Film Webinar A VIRTUAL SEMINAR BY THE ROYAL ANTHROPOLOGICAL INSTITUTE Friday 4 March 2022 at 4-6pm (BST) Event takes place on Zoom. Please register here: https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZIuce2rqjMiG9PUkCN0T2lzH_CX4lhvd4Ba   From our archives -  Keepers of the Faith: The Buddhist Nuns of Sagaing Hills 1996 / 51 minutes With Prof Hiroko Kawanami (Lancaster University) and Rachelle Saruya (University of […]

RAI Film SeminarFriday 29 April 2022 at 4.00-6.00pm (BST) Anarchival Materiality in Archives Speakers: Dr Kate Hennessy (Simon Fraser University) and Dr Trudi Lynn Smith (University of Victoria)   You can register for the Zoom event here: https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZcvd-iqpjgvGdFwWvT4XI3Y8d8E0axBLa8o In this talk, we present a series of video and photography-based research-creation artworks that have emerged through our […]

Indigenous Film Futures is an online exhibition taking place as part of the RAI conference Anthropology, AI and the Future of Human Society. Centering indigenous speculative fiction on film, the exhibition celebrates the work of Indigenous filmmakers and theorists who focus on temporality and the future in their practice. The featured artists explore alternate worlds, […]