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| name         = Days of Ethnographic Film
| local name   = Dnevi etnografskega filma
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| street              = Novi trg 2
| town                = SI-1000 Ljubljana
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| telephone    = 386 (0) 1 470 6346
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| email        = manca.filak@zrc-sazu.si
| website      = http://www.def.si
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| organised by       = Slovene Ethnological Society
| organised by 2     = Institute of Slovenian Ethnology at the Scientific Research Centre of the Slovene Academy of Science and Arts, Department of Ethnology and Cultural Anthropology
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| frequency          = biennial
| dates and duration = February-March 
| duration weeks     = 10 (2011) 11 (2012) 11 (2013) 11 (2014)
| festival dates     = 10.3.2015 - 13.3.2015, 1.3.2017 - 4.3.2017, 6.3.2018 - 7.3.2018, 6.3.2019 - 9.3.2019, 3.3.2021 - 6.3.2021, 8.3.2022, 23.2.2023 - 25.2.2023, 29.3.2024 - 30.3.2024 
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  | name        = Manca Filak
  | role        = Project Head at the Audiovisual Laboratory, Institute of Slovene Ethnology
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  | email       = manca.filak@zrc-sazu.si
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First introduced in [[established::2007]], the international [[Days of Ethnographic Film|Days of Ethnographic Film (DEF)]] are organised in a joint venture by the [[Slovene Ethnological Society]] and the [[Scientific Research Centre (ZRC SAZU), Slovene Academy of Science and Arts]]. The festival aims to bring ethnographic film, with its curious intersection of scientific research and video media, to a wider public of both professionally and casually interested viewers. Up to 2015 the festival ran annualy, now it is organised as an biennial event, with film seminars in the in-between years. DEF is a member of CAFFE, a network for coordinating anthropological film festivals in Europe.
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== Venues ==

The event is currently taking place at [[Slovenian Cinematheque]]. The event also used to take place on the premises of the [[Scientific Research Centre (ZRC SAZU), Slovene Academy of Science and Arts|Scientific Research Centre (ZRC SAZU)]], at the [[Slovene Ethnographic Museum]], [[Kinodvor Cinema]] and the [[City Museum of Ljubljana]].

==Background==
Ethnographic film, with a history dating back about a century, is a very specialised subgenre and is as such a rarely seen and hard to find form of video production. To present its uses, horizons and even existence outside the specialised, mostly scientific community (and the sporadic television broadcasts), the first more ambitious public screenings were organised in 2001, when the first ''Ethnovideo Marathon'' was set up. 

It presented current Slovene ethnographic film productions by institutions such as the [[Audiovisual Laboratory, Institute of Slovene Ethnology]], the [[Goriška Museum]], the [[Celje Museum of Recent History]], the [[Slovene Ethnographic Museum]] and various amateur associations. A second programme section was also set up which screened only films made by students.

As the marathon evolved and a decent public interest was found, the idea of extending it into an international festival with a much more ambitious scope led to the first edition of the Days of Ethnographic Film in 2007. 

For years the festival's director was [[Naško Križnar]], among other things a professor of visual anthropology and himself an ethnographic film maker for more than four decades.

{{Image|7 Q&A, Manca Filak and Gregory Gan, 8.3.2019, Žiga Gorišek.jpg}}

==Programme sections==

The festival has a non-competitive programme which tries to present a balanced selection of international and local productions, as well as student and professional films. It showcases films of different length, as the organisers strive to give a dynamic and colourful representation of the various approaches and  methodologies of the ethnographic film genre.  

[[Days of Ethnographic Film|DEF]] presents an unbound scope of themes such as intangible heritage, social tensions, particular social groupings, political activism and artistic practices. As each year there are more and more applicants sending their films, the diversity and quality of presented ethnographic films is rising.

Since 2015, the festival has been biennial. In the intervening years, the organizers reflect on topics from the fields of visual ethnography, visual research and ethnographic film. In these years, the organizers prepare special (also thematically focused) events such as film seminars.

==The Niko Kuret Award==
[[Niko Kuret]] (1906&ndash;1995) was an ethnologist who, back in 1950s, set the foundations for the scientific use of film in Slovenia. During the festival, the [[Niko Kuret Award]] is given by the [[Slovene Ethnological Society]] to individuals whose contributions have made a mark in the field of ethnographic film and visual anthropology in general.

Till now, the award was given to [[Herta Maurer-Lausegger]], [[Boris Kuhar]], [[Andrej O. Župančič]] (posthumously), Allison Peters Jablonko, Asen Balikci, Naško Križnar and Nadja Valentinčič Furlan. The festival also featured a selection of film works by these prominent and innovative researchers and pedagogues.

==See also==
* [[Slovene Ethnological Society]]
* [[Scientific Research Centre (ZRC SAZU), Slovene Academy of Science and Arts]]
* [[Department of Ethnology and Cultural Anthropology, University of Ljubljana]]

==External links==
* [http://www.def.si/index.php?id= Days of Ethnographic Film website]
* [http://www.etno-muzej.si/en Slovene Ethnographic museum website]
* [http://www.vaneasa.eu/ Visual Anthropology Network website]
* [http://www.anthropological-filmfestivals.eu/ CAFFE network website]

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