Tropentag 2024:
Explore opportunities... for managing natural resources and a better life for all
September 11 - 13, 2024
organised by
University of Natural Resources and Life Sciences, Vienna (BOKU), Austria
Film Festival
Third Edition of Perspectives on Pastoralism Film Festival at the Tropentag 2024
Theme: Camelid pastoralism
Wednesday 11 September 2024 - 19:00-22:00 CEST
Room EXNH EH01 - the films will be streamed via whova as well
Announcement poster film festival
To celebrate the International Year of Camelids 2024 (www.fao.org/camelids-2024), the Perspectives on
Pastoralism Film Festival presents short films on camelids – camels, dromedaries, alpacas, llamas, vicunas
and guanacos – in tropical areas of Africa, Asia and the Andes.
These documentary films seek to deepen understanding of how pastoralist communities gain their
livelihoods in dryland and mountainous areas from mobile systems of camelid husbandry. They show the
close relationships of the pastoralist men, women and children with their livestock and environment, and
how they contribute to sustainable land management through ecologically appropriate use of the resources
with well-adapted animals. The films depict camelid husbandry, breeding and trade. They reveal the
economic challenges faced by camelid-keepers, especially in gaining fair prices for their products, and the
initiatives that pastoralists are taking to improve the local economy and community wellbeing.
Films selected for screening at Tropentag 2024
| title of film | country of filming | filmmakers | production year |
| International Year of Camelids (ILC) 2024 | global | FAO | 2023 |
| Caravanas de las alturas (Caravans of the heights) | Argentina | Bibiana Vilá | 2019 |
| Living with alpacas in the Peruvian Andes | Peru | Mark Michel | 2022 |
| The Kumbhalgarh Raika story | India | Lokhit Pashu Palak Sansthan | 2017 |
| The move | India | Pinar Ekinci | 2023 |
| Old craftsmen | Iran | Mohsen Siahrizi | 2023 |
| The last of their kind: Turkey's nomads | Turkey | Nevin Sungur & Gunnar Köhne | 2022 |
| Tarlamt: salt caravan to Bilma | Niger | Sarah Lunaček | 2024 (filmed 2000) |
| International Year of Rangelands & Pastoralists | global | Patrick Augenstein & Tseelei Enkh-Amgalan | 2023 |
After the films will be a discussion with filmmaker Sarah Lunaček and other researchers and practitioners in camelid pastoralism.
The Perspectives on Pastoralism Film Festival (www.pastoralistfilmfestival.com) is organised on behalf of the Coalition of European Lobbies for Eastern African Pastoralism (CELEP) by DITSL (German Institute for Tropical & Subtropical Agriculture), Agrecol Association for AgriCulture & Ecology and Vétérinaires Sans Frontières (VSF) Belgium. The 1st edition was launched at Tropentag 2019 in Kassel, Germany, and the 2nd at Tropentag 2022 in Prague, Czechia. This 3rd edition for Tropentag 2024 in Vienna, Austria, prepared together with colleagues in the International Support Group for the IYRP 2026, includes a special thematic focus on camelids, to celebrate the International Year of Camelids in 2024.