The 11th Anthropological Film Festival

Calendar Girls are Florida’s most dedicated dance team for women over 60. Lively and spirited, they spread joy through dance. Each member has a unique story to share; together they are a blistering female force. Calendar Girls is a documentary gem that will make you want to dance your hearts out.

This is the story of three women and Vedette the cow, the queen of the French Alpine pastures. The film follows these caretakers and this one magnificent beast as age and time catch up with them all. 

Newborn Elias and his family fled the Central African Republic to Northern Cameroon after the beginning of a new civil war in 2013. The film follows Elias and his family as they try to build a new home while news from the homeland continues to invade life.

They are construction workers, coal miners, workers in the oil fields or ports. They are strong but beaten, beautiful but dirty, broken and still hoping for the best. In Lionel Rogosin's world they walk around Manhattan - between the bars, the specialty shops, work - and in this space Rogosin directs the last cinematic chapter of the myth of American masculinity.

Ferries run along the vast expanses of the Peruvian Amazon, transporting people and goods, dictating the rhythm of the heartbeat and the flow of life. The film follows one such ferry on its journey and invites us to meet the local people waiting on the banks of the river.

As part of the anti-poaching efforts in the Greater Kruger Park, South Africa, the conservation authority (dominated by white Afrikaner men) form the first all-female defense unit. This mission offers the women, perhaps for the first time in their life, a sense of liberty and empowerment.