The 12th Anthropological Film Festival

Teenage Sujin, a shaman, is at a pinnacle point in her life. Will she choose higher education or continue her family's traditions of taking care of the needs of the gods in the family temple and the heartaches of those seeking their services.

Outside Kolkata, a few jute mills crank on, virtually unchanged since the industrial revolution. Powered by steam and sweat, work is a dance to the dictate of profit and century-old machines. The Golden Thread follows the weft and warp of jute work.

Hannu sets up cameras in the woods outside his land in West Finland, hoping to meet a family of lynxes. The cameras become part of the nature and wildlife, while Hannu creates an intimate environment with his co-habitats.

Ratima and Kalima experience 100 cold and snowy days alone in the mountain village of Napal. The two old women, guarding the houses and property while the rest of the inhabitants and animals migrated south for the winter, form their own bubble of existence.

The process of gold mining in the Amazon causes mercury to enter the drinking water of the Munduruku people. Local activists and medical researchers join forces to deal with the sources of pollution and to ensure the future of the younger generation and preservation of their heritage.

In Burkina Faso, in the gold-digging site of Bantara, Rasmané, 16 years old, descends more than 100 meters deep in artisanal mines to extract gold. Anxious about accidents, Rasmané makes his way in this world of fierce adults, hoping to, one day, become emancipated…

Mother Earth or Our Lady of Guadalupe are superheroines in Mayan culture. Sacred and strong women in the cultural sphere. But in the director's private sphere is his actual mother. Sero seeks to settle the tensions between devotion and reality and bridge the gaps between them.