Visiting Filmmakers & COP-17 Research Presentations
Original ethnographic and documentary films presented by visiting researchers and filmmakers in the context of COP-17, with special roundtables.
Produced by the Tartaly Film Collective, Ala kiyiz documents the traditional Kyrgyz art of felt carpet making.
Produced by the independent Tartaly Film Collective in Kyrgyzstan, Alihan’s Village (Bizdin Ayyl) follows a young boy named Alihan living in a rural mountain village where everyone knows each other’s nicknames.
In the remote mountains of West Sikkim, a community of yak herders once lived in close relationship with nature, relying on traditional farm ing, local seeds, forest resources, and ancestral knowledge passed down through generations.
Part of the MOOC course material for Pastoralism in Development created by IIED, MISEREOR, and Saverio Krätli.
As the Naadam summer festival approaches, horse trainer Amraa and 11-year-old jockey Jantska prepare their stallion for the race.
An ethnographic documentary examining how climate change, overgrazing, and destructive mining practices threaten Mongolian nomadic herders.
A 10-minute participatory documentary made by a freshly trained-in-filmmaking group of young Kenyan Maasai women and men from the Maasai Mara, sharing their firsthand observations on climate change, changing seasons, land privatization, and cultural transformation.
Man-made climate change is creating conditions on our planet that are increasingly characterised by variability and unpredictability.
Filmed in 2000 with lightweight equipment in harsh desert conditions, this documentary follows a Tuareg (Kel Eway Imjaghan) camel caravan traveling across the Sahara to Bilma, documenting traditional trade routes, desert survival, and social organization.
Produced by Steps Without Borders NGO (Хил хязгааргүй алхам), this 30-minute documentary focuses on nomadic herding families living in Airag sum, Dornogovi aimag, Mongolia.
The Path (Чыйыр) is an ethnographic documentary centering on Kulmat, a manaschy (traditional epic storyteller) in Kyrgyzstan who received the oral performance gift through a visionary dream in his youth.
Directed by Alina Baitokova for the Tartaly Film Collective, Umai explores female identity, maternal care, and social resilience in contemporary Kyrgyzstan.
