The 2020 Anthropological Film Festival

A single mother and her four children, living on the front-line zone of Donbas, document their life under constant bombing. Even under these stressful conditions, the family keeps their warmth and optimism, letting their creativity and love for cinema to create an altered reality. Orange is a film about a film that depicts family life, love and war, and also celebrates the power of imagination and creativity even at times of meaningless horrors.

A Chinese fast train is set to cross Asia into Europe and set up the new Silk Road. The film stops at a small Georgian village, where the train is set to pass through a tunnel. The old train station's manager, together with the villagers, has to face a new reality, with thousands of Chinese workers settling on the outskirts of the village, with the hazards caused by the mining, and with uncertainty about the future. On the backdrop of beautiful mountain landscapes, A Tunnel shows how Chinese dominance clashes with traditions and ways of life that seem to have not changed for decades, and offers a look at contemporary imperialism.

The restoration of Margot Benacerraf's brilliant film Araya completes missing parts in the memory of documentary filmmaking. In the peninsula of Araya in northeastern Venezuela, the salt miners and the fishermen continue their traditional ways of working. With arduous work and under cruel weather conditions, they sustain themselves: men, women, boys, and girls, circling the day from dawn to dusk in a balanced and precise dance. Benacerraf's eyes and heart gather these distant people, into the lap of the workers of the whole world in a spectacular poetic course.

The film follows the agricultural cycle in Portugal’s remote inland, between the rivers Douro and Tâmega, and the life of two sisters who spend their days tirelessly toiling the land for subsistence. The veil is lifted on these women’s day-to-day lives and their deepest thoughts about life in the countryside, the only life they know.