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SUMMARY:Visual Encounters Film Fest 2026
DTSTAMP:20260912T192344Z
DTSTART:20261031T130000Z
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DESCRIPTION:Genre: Documentary\nOpen: 14:00 - 19:00 hrs\nTickets: € 5\n\nWh
	at happens when anthropology moves beyond the written page and into images
	\,\nsounds and encounters?\nVisual Encounters returns for its 4th edition\
	, presenting 16 ethnographic films\ncreated by filmmakers from the Univers
	ity of Amsterdam’s MA in Visual\nAnthropology.\nAcross two days\, the fest
	ival moves through different worlds\, relationships and\nways of seeing. T
	he films explore memory\, identity\, migration\, family\,\nbelonging\, int
	imacy\, place\, and social change through approaches ranging from\nobserva
	tional documentary to collaborative and experimental filmmaking.\nAt the h
	eart of Visual Encounters is the idea that filmmaking can be more than a\n
	way of documenting people and places. It can become an encounter: between\
	nfilmmaker and participant\, image and experience\, audience and world.\nS
	creenings will take place in thematic blocks\, followed by Q&As with the\n
	filmmakers—opening conversations about not only what these films show\, bu
	t also\nhow they were made and what kinds of relationships made them possi
	ble.
URL:https://offbeat.amsterdam/event/visual-encounters-film-fest-2026
GEO:52.3601403;4.8656923
LOCATION:OT301 - Overtoom 301\, 1054 HW Amsterdam
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:amsterdam-west,documentary,experimental,festivals,film,opening,v
	ondelparkbuurt
X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:<strong>Genre:</strong> Documentary<br><strong
	>Open:</strong> 14:00 - 19:00 hrs<br><strong>Tickets:</strong> € 5  <p>Wha
	t happens when anthropology moves beyond the written page and into images,
	 sounds and encounters?<br> Visual Encounters returns for its 4th edition,
	 presenting 16 ethnographic films created by filmmakers from the Universit
	y of Amsterdam’s MA in Visual Anthropology.<br> Across two days, the festi
	val moves through different worlds, relationships and ways of seeing. The 
	films explore memory, identity, migration, family, belonging, intimacy, pl
	ace, and social change through approaches ranging from observational docum
	entary to collaborative and experimental filmmaking.<br> At the heart of V
	isual Encounters is the idea that filmmaking can be more than a way of doc
	umenting people and places. It can become an encounter: between filmmaker 
	and participant, image and experience, audience and world.<br> Screenings 
	will take place in thematic blocks, followed by Q&amp;As with the filmmake
	rs—opening conversations about not only what these films show, but also ho
	w they were made and what kinds of relationships made them possible.</p>
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