AUTHOR | Deepti Rao Set in Bama, a 'longevity village' in South China, Silver Holiday provides a glimpse into the growing phenomenon of health tourists visiting the region in the hope of adding a few more years to their lives. Chen Guo and his wife, both in their 80s, take us through the place they now call home, while sharing with us the little details of their life together and the simple things that bring them happiness.

AUTHORS | Amra Hasanović, Azra Jašarević, Hassan Chamoun At the central bus station of Sarajevo, Bosnia’s capital, daily traffic is busy: people on their way to towns and villages, students homebound or returning to the universities, tourists catching rides to recommended sites across BosniaHerzegovina. The film follows a girl struggling with questions— where does she belong, where to be: in the country of her family, a place that feels like home, or to a country where she could find a job?

GERMANY AUTHOR | Yolanda Schröder The film „Unity in Exile. Becoming Sahrawi“ that evolved from a two-months fieldwork, was conducted as part of my master thesis in Visual Anthropology. It takes part amongst Sahrawi refugees – the native population of the by Morocco occupied country Western Sahara – that live since more than forty years in refugee camps in the southwestern Algerian desert. The ethnographic film focuses on the younger generations that were born and raised in the camps. (...)

AUTHOR | Katarina Zlopasa This move is a little project about Jamaican culture and Jamaican people. During my travel around Jamaica I did a few interviews with Jamaican students from MONA University about their life and how they perceive happiness. They told me what they think about their own culture and how they deal with different situations in life. Purpose of this movie is to show Croatian students another perspective on life and happiness.

AUTHOR | John Cruz In a peaceful revolution, working for spiritual autonomy and a practice to recover their customs, the Nasa people bring back their wedding ritual marriage.

AUTHOR | Manca Filak i Žiga Gorišek Lukomir is the village with the highest altitude (1472 m a.s.l) in the Federation of Bosnia and Herzegovina. It is located on the southern slopes of the mountain massif Bjelašnica. Despite the outward migration of the population and the increase in tourism in the last decades, transhumant pastoralism and seasonal migration of families and their flocks of sheep characterize the life of their residents. (...)

AUTHOR | Yasemin Karsli My film Memories of London was initially a photography project which focused on the daily lives/habitats of immigrants from Turkey in London. I have chosen around ten Turkish / Kurdish immigrants for the project, who has -almost- never been to London city center and who has not seen 'World Famous London' and its iconic/touristic places. For my MA in Turkey (The relationship between photography and anthropology in the context of Turkish citizens in London)...

AUTHOR | Jan-Holger Hennies The collaborative project “Subversive Diversity” explores the voices and stories of three “hablantes de lengua” (language-speakers) in Mexico City. When Spanish colonisation arrived in the territory that today is known as Mexico, more than 200 languages were spoken by its inhabitants. By now only 68 languages still survive and migration has brought many of them deep into the country’s urban centres.

AUTHOR | João Meirinhos Yunde Guan followed his father to learn the drum production, and followed his mother and aunt to learn the art of Shaman paper cutting more than 50 years ago. He devoted his personal income to the inheritance of Manchu culture and established the "Guan Yunde Manchu folk custom museum" located in the Liu village in the Jilin Province. “The way of the shaman drum” follows his life during the production of one of his special drums until it’s able to be played through (...)

AUTHORS | Paloma and Benjamin Yáñez Serrano, Llorens Rocamora In a room, a group of women (and one man) sit waiting. Some have been waiting for weeks, others for years, still others seem to have been waiting forever. They wait patiently and impatiently, nervously and calmly, hopefully and resignedly. How does cancer impact upon one's relationship with oneself and with others – doctors, husbands, lovers, children, fellow sufferers? Why is women's cancer so often defined as a period of (...)

AUTHORS | Samira Kameli, Sajra Subašić In september 2017 Samira comes from Iran to Sarajevo, BH for the first time to shoot a documentary. She tries to connect with the country and people. In order to find people who traveled from far places like her, she attempts to visit a refugee center, but all she finds are closed gates as she isn't allowed to see any of people there.

AUTHOR | Eva Hoffmann ‚Ksjucha’. This would have been Ksenia’s nickname, if her parents would not have left Russia in the early nineties. While her mother did everything to cut her Russian roots, preventing her from contacting the family in order to start a new life in Germany, her father was barely present during her childhood. 20 years later, Ksenia still feels incomplete. In search for her roots, she takes the railroad to Omsk, Siberia, where she was born. (...)

AUTHOR | Arianna Nacci An ethnography of the aftermath of the earthquakes that destroyed central Italy in 2016 and 2017. The documentary, through intimate stories and an ethic approach, drives us into the lives of the ones that, despite the difficulties, the trauma and the loss, decided to stay.