Take an international anthropological journey at the
Margaret Mead Film Festival.
The annual festival at the
American Museum of Natural History in New York is the longest-running showcase for international documentaries in the United States and pays tribute to the work of renowned anthropologist
Margaret Mead.
According to the
website: "the Festival continues to exemplify Mead's teachings - that film is a tool for cross-cultural understanding and that it is possible, and important, for societies to learn from each other".
For the first time the MMFF is travelling to Australia to showcase the complexity and diversity of the people and cultures that populate our planet at the
Australian Museum.
Be inspired, educated and entertained by a range of films from
Blind Loves which "depicts the day to day world, rich in other sensory experiences, of four blind couples".
To
Hotel Sahara according to the website: "is a film journey to the last invisible border separating the West-African coast and Europe. The bleak city on the Atlantic Coast is a metaphor, a point of arrival and of departure, a gathering place of broken dreams – a place of waiting for that better life on the far side of the Atlantic".
The Last Days of Shishmaref explores the effects of climate change on the lives of Inupiaq Eskimos who have lived in Shishmaref on Alsaka's Sarichef Island for an estimated 4000 years.
Babaji, an Indian Love Story tells the tale of Baba Basant Rai, rumoured to be more than 100 years old, who buried his wife nine years ago, yet still grieves for her. "It is a portrait of one man's sorrow, the film is also a window into traditional Hindi culture, its beauty and limitations, and how it struggles to accommodate, and resist, modernity."
The festival will showcase seven films one each Tuesday evening till November 16 with cheese and wine from 6.30pm followed by the film at 7pm.
