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Cae Dai - a Home From Home 1997 30'

After the closure of the North Wales psychiatric hospital in the late 1980s, Sparrow Harrison opened his family home to local people suffering from mental illness. This film explores the humour,

British-Irish Isles Health / Health care / Healing Alternative culture

Calcutta Calling 2006 16'

Directed by André Hörmann .

“Business Process Outsourcing” is the fastest growing industry in the world. In India, approximately 350,000 people are currently working in call centres to maintain the contact between western

South Asia Labour

Call for Grace 2000 30'

Student Directed by Laetitia Merli .

During Mongolia's seventy years of domination by the Soviet Union, shamanism, like many aspects of Mongolian tradition, was forbidden by the Communist authorities, and went into decline. Since the

Central Asia and Far East Shamans and Shamanism Post-communism

Campo 9 2013 25'

Directed by Carlos R. Rivero Uicab .

Carlos, the director of the documentary, worked for four years with Abraham and his family of Mennonites who have lived in the Campeche region for over a decade. Abraham mainly worked cutting down

Central America Indigenous peoples / First Nations peoples Social Conflict Inter-religious relations

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Cara Romero: Following the Light 2022 27'

Shorts Directed by Kaela Waldstein .

An enrolled citizen of the Chemehuevi Indian Tribe, Romero was raised between contrasting settings: the rural Chemehuevi reservation in Mojave Desert, CA and the urban sprawl of Houston, TX.

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Carnival King of Europe. Release 2.0 2011 38'

Directed by Michele Trentini Giovanni Kezich .

Award-winning ethnographic caleidoscope featuring over 50 different masquerades of some 13 European countries. Thanks to some careful editing, the underlying structure of European winter masked

Western Europe South-East Europe Central Europe Festivals / Carnival Folklore

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Caroling with the Star among the Bersntoler 2015 26'

Directed by Michele Trentini .

In the German-speaking Bersntol (Val dei Mòcheni) in the Italian Alps, the Three Wise Men have left in their stead a robust choir of young men, parading the Star from farm to farm. This film is

South-East Europe Festivals / Carnival Folklore

Caught in a Magic Place 2007 28'

Directed by Niccolo Patriarca .

A story of sandwiches and generations, ambitions and regrets from the heart of the Italian kitchen.

Western Mediterranean Food Intergenerational relations Labour

Changes 2010 30'

Directed by Afua Asare-Nyako .

Kwabena wants to move back to Ghana, the country he left more than 30 years ago. This film shows one of the many journeys that he has to take in preparation for his return. It explores the motives

West Africa Western Europe Migration

Chantal's Choice 1990 30'

Directed by Priscilla Hinckley Carlyn Saltman .

Adolescents in Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso, create a play for their peers in Europe and the USA. They enact an African folktale about a girl who faces a painful dilemma because she is determined to stay in school.

West Africa Dance / Theatre / Performance Children / Young people Reproduction (biology)

Chosen People 2016 18'

Directed by Qihui Wu .

Responding to systematic racism and historical erasure, the African diapora has developed a multitude of tactics for mitigating oppressive ideological conditions. Among them, the Hebrew Israelite

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Christmas at Moose Factory 1971 13'

Lifetime Achievement Award - Alanis Obomsawin Directed by Alanis Obomsawin .

This lyrical short documentary marked the directorial debut of legendary Abenaki director Alanis Obomsawin. Filmed at a residential school in northern Ontario, it is composed entirely of drawings by

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The Chronotopes of Palestine 2015 38'

Directed by Dominika Blachnicka-Ciacek .

The Chronotopes of Palestine (38’) is a collection of five ethnographic short films, which explore different modes of remembering the homeland among three generations of exiled Polish and British

Cinema Pedregal 1994 27'

Directed by Ricardo Leizaola .

For forty years Alejandro Farfán has been making and showing films in El Pedregal. Now located in the heart of Caracas, this community was a small village when Alejandro first went to the cinema.

Central America Popular Culture Urban Film / Photography / Mass media Memory

A Cobra 2016 19'

Directed by Carlos Sautchuk .

What we call Amazonia is actually a diversity of environments, artifacts, actions and actors. These elements are in a constant relation of genesis, producing each other in particular places and

Come Here Come Here 2019 28'

Directed by Julia Sterre Schmitz .

As a poetic manifesto for a more plural understanding of female sexuality, this associative film interweaves many theories, images, fantasies, memories and confusions drawn from popular culture,

Western Europe Sex / Sexuality Love Gender Role and Identity Research Methods

Concrete Sea 2021 15'

Shorts Directed by Julia Naidin .

As an exercise of resistance, Sônia follows the process of destruction caused by the sea, which day by day, advances into the beach and approaches her home. She makes daily records of this process

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Coraggio coscritti: take heart, all new recruits! 2016 25'

Directed by Michele Trentini .

The yearly parade of the new recruits is the perfect occasion in which to vent an extraordinarily wide repertoire of traditional songs. This film is part of **Carnival King of Europe DVD 6 -

South-East Europe Festivals / Carnival Folklore

Cornershop Beats 2022 8'

Shorts Directed by Bassam Al-Khaled Abdel Malek Al Ali Saja Awad .

In a family run grocery shop in Saida, Lebanon a father and son try to make their dreams come true.

Counterpoint One 2011 37'

Directed by Richard Werbner .

The first in the Forum Follies series, 'Counterpoint One' pitches the ethnographic filmmaker Richard Werbner into debate with audiences for his film 'Holy Hustlers' (2009), from a rough to a final

British-Irish Isles Reflexivity

Cruces 2020 23'

Student Directed by Carlos Tobon Franco .

An immersive expedition throughout the geographies and stories composing the Latin American journey to reach US soil. By weaving together oral histories and the landscape, the film is structured to

Cultivating Death 2003 23'

Directed by Martin Gruber .

Cemeteries are not only places for the dead. They are also spaces in which the living interact with each other – and with the dead. “Cultivating Death” depicts the different ways in which

British-Irish Isles Death Ritual

Cycles 2022 9'

Shorts Directed by Nisreen Hazineh Anas Al Sheikh Shawki Al Hallak .

We have fallen and are trying to stand. We keep on going… The world keeps spinning and we spin along with it in search for our daily bread in the current economic situation. We have become like the

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