NAFA (Nordic Anthropological Film Association) is an organization focused on anthropological documentary film. Its focus is on cooperation within the field of visual anthropology and has been active since the mid-1970s. The institutional membership is primarily made up of social anthropological institutions and ethnographic museums in the nordic countries, plus several regional colleges and media schools. NAFA also has a growing number of individual members in the northern countries and around the world.
One of NAFA`s most important tasks has been to build up an anthropological film collection; for use in teaching and research; a unique collection of classic and more recent ethnographic films which is matched only by a few of the world’s most important and largest ethnographic film collections.
The NAFA Film Collection consists of films about how people in all corners of the world live their everyday lives. The films are specially selected for you who teach or study anthropology, cultural studies, cross-cultural communications and so on or who just are interested in the worldwide variation on how people make their living and express their culture and identity. The films are selected from those films in the NAFA archive that have the permission to be shared by NAFA members for non-commercial and educational screenings only. NAFA Members can log in and watch the films in full length.
NAFA arranges an annual International Film Festival and Conference where ethnographic films are shown and discussed with a large audience. This year (2024) our festival will take place in Kabelvåg, Lofoten, Norway in collaboration with Nordland School of Arts and Film in Kabelvaag, northern Norway
NORDIC ANTHROPOLOGICAL FILM ASSOCIATION 