The International Film Festival "Days of Ethnographic Cinema" has been held since 2009 at leading cultural and educational venues in Moscow. Currently, ten successful film festivals with international participation have taken place.

The festival is organized by Moscow Institute of Psychoanalysis, Russian State University for the Humanities, Peter the Great Museum of Anthropology and Ethnography (the Kunstkamera).
Supported by Institute of History and Archaeology (Russian Academy Science- Ural Branch), Ural Federal University named after the first President of Russia B.N.Yeltsin, Higher School of Economics, State Institute for Art Studies, Library for Foreign Literature named after M. Rudomino.

The film screening program traditionally includes movies that cover contemporary topics such as the anthropology of labor and professions, the anthropology of religion and power, the role of traditional art in culture, urban and metropolitan life, migration processes, bodily practices, gender aspects, age markers, and many other global processes that inevitably transform the socio-cultural environment.

During the film festival, there are meetings with directors and filmmakers, as well as open lectures, presentations, photo exhibitions, and master classes with the participation of leading experts in the fields of cinematography, art history, anthropology, cultural studies, and other related fields. Thus, the film festival serves as a platform for audiences to meet with directors and scholars, allowing for the annual tracking of the dynamics of international research conducted using audiovisual languages, screen and multimedia methods of documenting and transmitting ethnographic and anthropological data.

The film festival carries out educational and outreach activities to promote domestic and foreign films on anthropological, ethnographic, and cultural topics, as well as to seek ways to address issues of tolerance and promote dialogue between representatives of different cultures. The festival aims to support the diversity of cultural expression through the tools of visual anthropology, as well as to introduce a wide audience to new directions in anthropological and ethnographic cinema.