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All screenings and events in Room 601, Metro Toronto Convention Centre
* Films with filmmaker Q&A are marked with an asterisk

Wed., November 15

3:00 p.m.
Opening Remarks

SVAFMF Co-Directors – Jennifer Cool and Christian Hammons 

3:15 – 6:45 p.m.
FIRST NATIONS

*Voices of Thunder (15 min)
Our Teacher (59 min)
*Beyond Extinction: Sinixt Resurgence (102 min)
Filmmaker Q&A (30 min) 

6:45 – 8:30 p.m.
PLACES IN TRANSITION

Addresses (Direcciones) (14 min)
Frankston (21 min)
The Weight of the Heat: A Meditation on Black Aliveness from New Orleans (5 min)
Introduced (10 min)
Seven Symphonies of Zagros (23 min)
*Rubb-ish (7 min)
Filmmaker Q&A (10 min)

Thurs., November 16

8:00 – 11:00 a.m.
ABILITY & DISABILITY

Wawan’s Prayer (23 min)
Unseen (88 min)
Carpenter (14 min)
Destiny (53 min)

11:00 a.m. – 2:30 p.m.
CO-CREATED

Margot (73 min)
*Smile4Kime (26 min)
*Above and Below the Ground (84 min)
Filmmaker Q&A (25 min)

2:30 – 5:30 p.m.
THE PAST IN THE PRESENT

*Savage Land (89 min)
Filmmaker Q&A (15 min)
The Order of Things (72 min)

5:30 – 9:00 p.m.
ANTROPOLOGISTS AT WORK

Esther Newton Made Me Gay (92 min)
*Ichi: Marks in Time (71 min)
Filmmaker Q&A (30 min)

Fri., November 17

8:00 – 12:15 p.m.
PILGRIMAGE, RITUAL, AND RELIGION

In the Next Year - Becoming Jewish in Pakistan (10 min)
AJAW Q'IJ (15 min)
Grower's Hands (17 min)
The Sky Wept for Forty Days (62 min)
*Rituals of the Diaspora: Lyn Pacificar, Katuuran (38 min)
*Light upon light (78 min)
Filmmaker Q&A (30 min)

12:15 - 1:45 p.m.
THE BIOPOLITICS OF SPORT

*We Call Her Sensei (25 min)
*Okmulgee Invitational (45 min) – Preview Screening
Filmmaker Q&A (20 min)

1:45 - 4:00 p.m.
ETHNOFICTIONS

*La Tumba Mambi (29 min)
Filmmaker Q&A (10 min)
*The Lindeka: When a City Ate a Book (67 min.)
Filmmaker Q&A (20 min)

4:00 - 6:00 p.m.
FORESTS IN TRANSITION

A Thousand Pines (74 min)
*The Memory of Glitch (28 min)
Filmmaker Q&A (10 min)

6:00-7:50 p.m.
INVITED SCREENING

*Making Sweet Tea (90 min)
Q&A (20 min) with Amber M. Henry,
Woodson Institute for African and African American Studies at the University of Virginia and
Harjant Gill, President-Elect, Society for Visual Anthropology

8:00 - 10:00 p.m.
SVA Business Meeting
Film & Media Festival Awards (9:00 p.m.)

Sat., November 18

8:00 - 10:00 a.m.
ECOLOGIES IN TRANSITION

Toang (37min)
Pedro and Inácio (24 min)
The People's Tree (17 min)
*L'Ombra di Rasputin (27 min)
Filmmaker Q&A (10 min)

10:00 a.m. - 12:00 p.m.
MOMENTO MORI

Section 59 (14 min)
Krošnja / Tree Crown (15 min)
Death Is Dangerous, It Could Hurt (19 min)
*Please Read It for Me to Rest in Peace (25 min)
*Bohyni (Goddesses) (8 min)
Filmmaker Q&A (30 min)

12:00 - 2:30 p.m.
FOLKTALES FOR THE FUTURE

Pupus (35 min)
*Sama in the Forest (75 min)
Filmmaker Q&A (30 min)

2:30 - 5:15 p.m.
ART IN ACTION
The Eye Begins in the Hand (16 min)
*Constructing Cosplay (21 min)
*Ripples in Still Waters (10 min)
Filmmaker Q&A (20 min)
Sankara Is Not Dead (99 min)

5:30 - 8:00 p.m.
KINSHIP AND MARRIAGE IN TRANSITION

*Co-Husband (35 min)
Filmmaker Q&A (15 min)
The Chalice. Of Sons and Daughters (84 min)

Sun., November 19 

8:00 - 10:00 a.m.
ISLANDS IN TRANSITION

Pileni paualala: Dried Giant Clams in the Reef Islands (18 min)
Ophir (97 min)

10:00 a.m. - 1:00 p.m.
AWARD WINNERS (reprise screening)

BEST FEATURE
Sama in the Forest (75 min)

JEAN ROUCH AWARD
La Tumba Mambi (29 min)

BEST SHORT
Co-Husband (35 min)

BEST STUDENT FILM
The Memory of Glitch (28 min)

BEST INTERACTIVE
Southeast Chicago Archive & Storytelling Project