What is the role of an ethnographic filmmaker as an outsider and student of a culture? Is it about representing, demonstrating, and reflecting or exposing, participating, and transposing? Although these are not binary terms of the historic discussions in anthropology, they share a lot to be experimented through shared cine-anthropology and sensory multimodal ethnography.
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Yusuf Ölmez Director
First release August 31, 2024 · Produced in Togo, Türkiye, Germany · Languages English, French
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19:30 Film
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Togo · Türkiye · Germany
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Original title
Uzaktan Yakından
Original language
French
Spoken on screen
English · French
Release dates
Greece · August 31, 2024
Premiere · International Documentary Film Festival of Ierapetra
No release date listed for United States.
Italy
September 26, 2025 · Physical · RAM Film Festival
October 1, 2025 · Premiere · Nebrodi Cinema DOC
Russia
September 25, 2025 · Premiere · Saratov Sufferings Film Festival
Serbia
November 15, 2024 · Premiere · Vizantrop Film Festival
November 28, 2024 · Premiere · Kayseri Film Festival
Sweden
January 19, 2025 · Premiere · Luleå International Film Festival
Türkiye
April 18, 2025 · Premiere · AFSAD International Short Film Festival
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