DER Documentary
Framing the Other
watch a previewby Ilja Kok and Willem Timmers
color, 25 min, 2011
In English and Mursi with English and French subtitles
Pricing information and conditions
The Mursi tribe resides in the basin of the Omo River, in the east African state of Ethiopia. Mursi women are known for placing large plates in their lower lips and wearing enormous, richly decorated earrings, which has become a subject of tourist attraction in recent years.
Each year, hundreds of Western tourists come to see the unusually adorned natives; posing for camera-toting visitors has become the main source of income for the Mursi. To make more money, they embellish their “costumes” and finery to appear more exotic to the outsiders. However, by exaggerating their habits and lifestyle in such a manner they are beginning to cause their original, authentic culture to disintegrate.
Framing the Other portrays the complex relationship between tourism and indigenous communities by revealing the intimate and intriguing thoughts of a Mursi woman from Southern Ethiopia and a Dutch tourist as they prepare to meet each other. This humorous, yet simultaneously chilling film shows the destructive impact tourism has on traditional communities.
Film Festivals, Screenings, Awards
Grand Prix Award, Montenegro Film Festival, Montenegro, 2012
Silver Horseshoe Award, Asterfest International Film Festival, Macedonia, 2012
Best Director, Bir Duino Human Rights Documentary Film Festival, Kyrgyzstan, 2012
Audience Award, Scenecs International Debut Film Festival, The Netherlands, 2012
NTR Special Mention, Go Short International Short Film Festival, the Netherlands, 2012
WATCH DOCS International Human Rights Film Festival, Poland, 2012
One World International Documentary Film Festival, Slovakia, 2012
2nd Anthropological JERUSALEM, Israel, 2012
Aspekty Festival of Visual Anthropology, Poland, 2012
DOCS DF International Documentary Film Festival, Mexico, 2012
Pravo Ljudski Film Festival, Bosnia and Herzegovina, 2012
Verzio International Human Rights Documentary Film Festival, Hungary, 2012
Annuu-Ru Aboro Peoples Film Festival, New Caledonia, 2012
DOCUMENT 10 International Human Rights Documentary Film Festival, Scotland, 2012
Human Rights Nights International Film Festival, Italy, 2012
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TV Broadcasts
Korea Educational Broadcasting System, Korea, 2012
HollandDOC 24 — VPRO, The Netherlands, 2012
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