Dr. Eda Elif Tibet is an award-winning documentary filmmaker, visual anthropologist, singer-songwriter, composer, and storyteller whose creative journey moves between cinema, music, science, and the arts. Inspired by the encounters, landscapes, and stories gathered through years of ethnographic fieldwork across Africa, Asia, Europe, and South America, her work explores the intimate relationships between people, nature, culture, and belonging. Through film and music, she gives voice to stories of resilience, collective memory, Indigenous wisdom, and the human experience, weaving artistic expression with social and environmental inquiry.

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She is the founder and artistic director of EthnoKino, an international ethnographic film festival and Doc Impact Lab that brings together filmmakers, artists, and communities through the transformative power of storytelling. As a songwriter, composer, and vocalist, she creates original music that draws on personal journeys, cultural encounters, and the poetic dimensions of life, exploring sound and cinema as interconnected forms of expression.

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Alongside her artistic practice, Tibet is a two-time Swiss National Science Foundation Fellow, a former Advanced Postdoctoral Researcher at the Wyss Academy for Nature, University of Bern, and a former fellow at the University of Oxford. She has served on the Executive Board of the Swiss Young Academy and is currently Co-President of the Swiss Anthropology Association’s Interface Commission for Engaged Anthropologists.

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At the heart of her work lies a belief in the power of art to connect worlds, nurture empathy, and inspire new ways of imagining our shared future.

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