Perspectives on Pastoralism
Film Festival

Special thanks to the whole team who curated the set of films for the Biodiversity and Conservation theme including Julia van Stenis, Dr. Hussein Wario, Engin Yilmaz, Dr. Ann Waters-Bayer, Dr. Nitya Ghotge and Dr. Hijaba Ykhanbai. The set of films that played in Bonn, Germany in September 2025 were: Changing a Landscape to Lifescape, […]

The third edition of the Perspectives on Pastoralism Film Festival was launched on 11 September 2024 at the Tropentag conference in Vienna, Austria. Because of the international year of the camelids, al films are about camelids in tropical areas of Africa, Asia and Andes. The festival highlights how pastoralist communities in dry and mountainous areas […]

On 16–20 May 2023, Malargüe City in Mendoza Province in the foothills of the Andes Mountains in Argentina presents PASTURAS, the first film festival on transhumance in Latin America. At the same time, the 4th Mendoza Film Lab will be launched in Mendoza Province, the same area where the film “Arreo” (selected for the second […]

CELEP (Coalition of European Lobbies for Eastern African Pastoralism), organiser of this Perspectives on Pastoralism Film Festival, contributed to the development of three animated videos used in the MOOC on “Pastoralism in development”. Pastoral development would benefit greatly from a better understanding of pastoralism by project planners. As an entry point for navigating the available […]

On 8 December 2022, the Perspectives on Pastoralism film festival returned to the European capital for its second edition. With new films, a panel of experts from three continents and a photo exhibition. Films from across the globe Four films were selected for the occasion. ‘An afternoon on the pasture’ (Hungary, 2022), offering a dive […]

The second edition of the Perspectives on Pastoralism Film Festival was launched on 14–15 September 2022 at the Tropentag conference in Prague, Czech Republic. A sub-selection of the total films selected was compiled to match the Tropentag 2022 theme “Can agroecological farming feed the world? Farmers’ and academia’s views”. We aimed to highlight films that […]

On Tuesday 15 March, a selection of our films were screened at the Studio Skoop in Ghent, as part of the Belmundo Festival. A broad audience from Ghent gained new insights into the unique lifestyle of pastoralists from Niger, Tanzania and Uganda. With this screening, we aimed to open a dialogue on the importance of […]

On 15 March 2022, the United Nations General Assembly (UNGA) declared 2026 the International Year of Rangelands & Pastoralists (IYRP). This final approval is the culmination of an IYRP movement that grew over several years to become a global coalition of over 300 pastoralist and supporting organisations. CELEP – the coalition behind this film festival […]

On Wednesday 2 and Thursday 3 June, our ‘Perspectives on Pastoralism’ film festival was part of the Global Landscape Forum conference on dry land restoration in Africa, just a few days before the start of the UN decade dedicated to ecosystem restoration. Our selection of films offered the audiences the opportunity to learn more about […]

The Film Festival ‘Perspectives on Pastoralism’ aims to deepen understanding of how diverse people across the world gain their livelihoods from extensive livestock production. The relationships of pastoralist people and animals and their food production systems reflect an intimate intertwining of culture, economy and ecology, in harsh environments such as drylands and mountainous regions. In […]

On 17 September, CELEP member organisations Agrecol (Association for AgriCulture and Ecology), DITSL (German Institute for Tropical and Subtropical Agriculture) and VSF (Vétérinaires Sans Frontières) Belgium presented the Perspectives on Pastoralism Film Festival as part of the Tropentag 2019 conference organised by the Universities of Kassel and Göttingen at the University of Kassel. The film […]