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"Of Brothers and Sisters" by Oxana Bischin follows two Romanian Roma siblings reconnecting and sharing their life journeys. Through creative workshops and heartfelt interviews, the film reveals raw emotions and invites us to appreciate life's complexity and recognise the power of resilience.

"Jimmy's Archive" by Robert Deakin explores nostalgia through the closet of a retired bachelor in East London. As objects reveal their stories, we're transported to 1970s London's rock scene and the life of a neighborhood that will no longer exist.

The films were shown in two sessions: "Labour (and) Environment" featuring also "Minding sand" by Laura van Herp, and "Healing, Aging, Growth" featuring also "Growing Old in the Margins in Lima, Peru" and "The moral value of our cells".

"Hanging Out" by Mari Korpela follows five transnational boys in Tampere who, through their self-irony and cynicism, hijack the anthropologist's film to share their worldview – turning an unexpected deviation into collaborative filmmaking at its best.

"Land full of Boas" by Clara Kleininger-Wanik showcases indigenous women healers and midwives in the Ecuadorian rainforest. Through sensory imagery, the film explores their shamanic practices and connection to nature while also examining modern gender dynamics.

@piotrgoldstein.bsky.social's (and colleagues) polyphonic film explores cross-border commuters between Poland and Germany. Using a circular narrative, it captures how daily migration affects the workers' sense of time, leading them to conclude "This Week Does Not Really Exist"

An open question remains: whether tradition itself might simply be a collection of snapshots from a larger, endless process of modernisation, combination, hybridisation, and transmission across generations.

Young people emerge as central actors, both as participants in intergenerational cultural transmission and as individuals seeking to understand and connect with tradition.

The "Musical Valley" explores the tensions between the need of the protagonists to engage with traditional indigenous music – whether through modernisation or preservation – and the commodification of music as an element of ethnocultural identity within global chains of tourism.

We screened Jérémie Voirol's film "The Musical Valley” – one of those films that unfolds before your eyes like a landscape, leaving you with the refreshing feeling of completing a meaningful journey.

🚧✊ Migrants are actively and creatively leveraging social media platforms like TikTok to craft individual and diasporic identities, as well as border infrapolitics that challenge stereotypes and counter established criminalization narratives. (🧵4/4)

🌐🔄 Digital platforms aren't just intermediaries – they’re active players shaping mobility patterns, border regimes, and diaspora solidarity mechanisms across Europe! (🧵3/4)

I think two fundamental takeaways emerged from the double session "Navigating Digital Borders" at the 2025 UK Association of Social Anthropologists (ASA) conference at the University of Birmingham. (🧵2/4)