In April 2022 the Ethnografilm Festival, a festival of non-fiction and ethnografilm film which is co-sponsored by the International Science Council (ISC), hosted a series of short films produced by ISC in two different contexts: the research projects composing the T2S programme, and the ISC-BBC Storyworks ‘Unlocking Science‘ series.

The Gold Matters project film “Gold Matters in Burkina Faso: The Art of Bonding in Precarious Times” was shown first. and received positive feedback from the audience of film producers.

Questions from the audience concerned mostly the historical and socio-political context in which the film was shot (namely, the security situation and the working conditions in gold mining areas of northern Burkina Faso), the use of visual and filmed material in research and the prospects for sustainability in the artisanal mining sector.