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Description
The NAFA Festival brings films from all over the world that relate with different cultures and societies. The Nordic Anthropological Film Association (NAFA), based in Norway, is a non-commercial, non-profit educational and research association working to promote the ethnographic film and visual anthropology. The main institution is NAFA, Norwegian Anthropological Film Association, an organization focused on documentary filmmaking, with educational purposes, teaching and communicating cultural differences around the world. Portugal has been invited for the first time to host NAFA''s edition
Summary of the results
The initiative consisted in organising the 40th Edition of the NAFA International Ethnographic Film Festival, in Lisbon, from 29 September to 2 of October 2021.
The event aims to promote a platform and opportunity for reflection on major cultural diversity, human rights, ecology and immaterial and material immaterial and material heritage, among other values.
The Festival took place at the National Museum of Ethnology and the programme included the participation of twenty-three films from different parts of the world, recording the diversity of cultural practices cultural practices that cross the contemporary world. Along with the official selection of the festival, the initiative''s activities also involved the organisation of workshops and conferences.
The event allowed to celebrate an informal meeting between students, academics and other public and to promote new concepts about the relationship between cultures, languages and traditions. In this way, it contributed to a better humanitarian understanding of other cultures, their habits and traditions, focusing on different themes: traditions, ecology, personal family stories, music, ethnic minorities, among others. The initiative also allowed to develop production strategies to work together with Third World countries, where a large number of these films take place, and to improve the practical strategies of production, distribution and awareness-raising of ethnographic films for specific target groups and other audiences.