Film list

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Breaking the Yard 2018 21'
  Directed by Richard Werbner .
"Breaking-the-Yard" documents the court hearings and troubled affairs of a quarrelsome young couple, a stay-at-home farmer and his police constable, town-savvy wife. They claim to be still
Southern Africa Family / Kinship Gender Role and Identity Law and Legislation / Bureaucracy Love Marriage
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Easy Life 1996 30'
    Directed by Amelia Hann .
This film is about a Breton woman and her family, their vision of life, and their clash with the French state which marked them as 'terrorists'.
Western Europe Political Activists Law and Legislation / Bureaucracy
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Extended Family 2016 31'
    Student Directed by Ramona Sonderegger .
This films offers an intimate insight into the lives of two same-sex families who found a way to create themselves within a legal grey area in Switzerland. Swiss law bans adoption and access to
Western Europe LGBTQI* Family / Kinship Sex / Sexuality Law and Legislation / Bureaucracy
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Still Life 2009 26'
    Directed by Siobhan McGuirk .
“I am here because I can’t go home.” Subject to strict controls in the UK, three women asylum seekers wait for claims to be processed and decisions made. Here they find the lives which they
British-Irish Isles Refugees / Displaced populations Law and Legislation / Bureaucracy