Here, there, and everywhere: The 2026 Anthropological Film Festival does the global cultural rounds

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The 15th edition of the festival is scheduled for November 17-19, with 14 movies from expansive ethnic and cultural domains lined up for the three-day program.

The human condition – now there's a taxing one. We spend our entire lives trying to understand or come to terms with who we are, let alone trying to get some sort of handle on people from very different climes. Then again, if we cast our cerebral and emotional nets a little further, we might, by extension, come up with some epiphanous wisdom that may help us get a less pixelated picture of ourselves.That, in part, is the thinking behind the Anthropological Film Festival, which has been running at the Jerusalem Cinematheque, in collaboration with the Department of Anthropology and Sociology of the Hebrew University, for the past decade and a half.The event is overseen by perennial artistic…

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