Every other year, in a scouting camp on the east coast of America, the Vohra Families Reunion takes place. During the three days of this event, participants gather from all over North America to meet distant relatives, make new acquaintances, and celebrate their shared origins in the Charotar region in Gujarat, west India. The film ‘Everybody needs a tribe’ shows how a community - a ‘tribe’, as participants say - is created as well as challenged during this event. The organisers are reaching the age of retirement and hope that a new generation will take over their tasks. Will young people be motivated to keep organising it in the future?

‘Everybody needs a tribe’ (2019) has been produced, filmed, and edited by Sanderien Verstappen in conversation with members of the Muslim Vohra Association of America (since 2019: Vohra Association of North America). It premiered at the conference ‘The Familiar Stranger’, SOAS South Asia Institute (2019), and was discussed in HAU: Journal of Ethnographic Theory (2024).