Film list

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P11: Social movements, protest, social justice & creativity '
Conference
  Convened by José Sherwood .
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SOLITARY LAND 2017 107'
  Directed by Tiziana Panizza .
A researcher found 32 documentaries filmed on Easter Island almost a century ago. They contain images of the island’s rock sculptures, the Moai, but they barely show the island’s inhabitants,
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Sacred Water 2016 54'
  Directed by Olivier Jourdain .
Guided by Vestine, an extravagant star of radio nights, the film discovers Rwandan sexuality in search of the water that gushes out of the female body. Sacred Water reveals with humor and spontaneity
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Sailing a Sinking Sea 2015 65'
  Directed by Olivia Wyatt .
Sailing A Sinking Sea explores the culture of the Moken people of Myanmar and Thailand. The Moken are a nomadic seafaring community and one of the smallest ethnic groups in Asia. Spending eight
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Sakhisona 2017 27'
    Intangible Culture Directed by Prantik Basu .
Near Mogulmari in West Bengal lies a mound known locally as Sakhisona. Stories about it are interwoven with myth and still sung by local musicians. A dig nearby recently uncovered the remains of a
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Sangharsh. Strife. 2018 105'
    Directed by Nicolas Jaoul .
Shot between 1997 and 2001, Sangharsh takes us deep into the lifeworld of Dalit Panther activists in the late 1990s Uttar Pradesh. By following three activists, one is taken on a rough trip in the
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Sarah Pink 2023 90'
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This talk will be live streamed online on Tuesday 7 March 2023 10:00 - 11:30, UK time. There is a mounting ethical onus on anthropological filmmakers to go further in their engagements with futures;
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The Scorpion is me - A centennial family dance group 2017 95'
    Directed by Juan Sebastián Alvarez .
Santos Ramírez “Santico”, the current 40 year old artistic director, hides behind the Carnival’s atmosphere, as he is fighting against all odds to keep El Alacrán's poison alive. "El
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Scratches on Celluloid 2018 53'
    Directed by Vindhya Buthpitiya Timothy Cooper .
In the rapidly changing urban landscapes of Jaffna and Lahore, the social and public space of cinema halls are recognisable for their longevity and resilience amid insurgency, war, and
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The Season of Vodoun 2016 45'
  Directed by Ran Muratsu .
This film depicts ceremonies of Vodoun, deities of ancestors and natures spread in the Gulf of Guinea, and its relationship with national politics. The shooting was held in the period of Vodoun in
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The Secret of the Caminanti 2016 63'
  Directed by Rita Mirabella Giuseppe Tumino .
The history of the Caminanti is an unwritten story of an autochthonous community living 'in hiding'. We know barely anything about their history, which has only been transmitted orally throughout
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Sent Away Boys 2016 43'
  Directed by Harjant Gill .
What happens to families in the absence of sons? What happens to land in the absence of farmers? What happens to communities in the absence of men? Sent Away Boys weaves together stories of
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Shomõtsi 2001 42'
    Arandu - Listen to the Weather Directed by Wewito Piyãko .
Chronicle of the daily life of Shomõtsi, an engaging and gregarious Ashenika man living in a village at the border between Brazil and Peru. Our guide in the film is Shomõtsi’s nephew Valdete, a
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Shorts 01 - Creative lives 100'
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The power of art to make worlds come into being
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Shorts 02 - Women, empowerment and religion 69'
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Ritual encounters with divinity
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Shorts 03 - Pleasure 76'
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Ground-breaking shorts exploring the world of sex and pleasure [NSFW! Contains adult content]
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Shorts 04 - Migration at the crossroads/1 62'
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Questioning the representation of migrant experience
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Shorts 05 - Migration at the crossroads/2 71'
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Questioning the representation of migrant experience
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Shorts 06 - Animals | Humans | Ritual 97'
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Close encounters with bees, cockrels, fish
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Shorts 07 - Sparks! 76'
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Experimental short form pushing the boundaries of ethnographic film
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Shorts 08 - Livelihoods 90'
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Portraits of people working in rural settings
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Shorts 09 - Indigenous knowledge 110'
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Teaching the next generation
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Shorts 10 - Environmental crisis 69'
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People coping with the consequeces of climate change, pollution and waste
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Silas 2017 80'
    Directed by Anjali Nayar .
Liberian activist Silas Siakor is a tireless crusader against illegal logging and corruption. Through this focus on one small country -- “Silas” warns of the power of politics, features the role
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Sing My Sister 2022 85'
    Ethnomusicology Directed by Karen Boswall Alzira Guetsa André Bahule .
Communities of women across Mozambique use song, dance and stories to present a female perspective of three gendered ideological moments in their country’s history. Three co-authored musical
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Singing "Bird": Carrying on the Kumeyaay Tradition 2018 30'
    Directed by Teri Brewer .
The Kumeyaay, an indigenous people of Southern California and Northern Mexico still perform more than a dozen ancient song cycles kept alive through a process of apprenticeship and study which can
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The Sky Wept for Forty Days 2022 62'
    Werbner Award Directed by Sabrina Mervin .
The Sky Wept for Forty Days is an immersion in a Shi’a pilgrimage, which once a year attracts millions of faithful to Karbala, in Iraq. Their journey, on foot, lasts at least three days. They reach
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Slow Return 2021 80'
    Main Competition Directed by Philip Cartelli .
A river flows out to sea through a network of wetlands, salt marshes, and petrochemical plants. A melting glacier, its surface covered in protective cloth, still attracts tourists. Slow Return
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So'o: Life and death of a cow in Puerto Casado 2016 24'
  Directed by Valentina Bonifacio .
In the golden age of Puerto Casado, in Paraguay, at least eight cows were slaughtered every day to feed its population of 6,000 people. Eating "asado" (roasted meat) is still at the core of
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The Soil 2022 71'
    Ethnomusicology Directed by Zuzanna Solakiewicz .
A contemporary village and its unconventional dwellers of different ages have one thing in common; their strong attachment to folk culture. In this film, music is as important as images, accompanying
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The Song Collector 2016 54'
  Directed by Erik Koto .
In the 1960s Morup Namgyal sparked a social movement to preserve the traditional Himalayan culture of his homeland. What Morup could not imagine at that time was that he would ultimately embrace
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Specialised Technique 2018 6'
    Directed by Onyeka Igwe .
William Sellers and the Colonial Film Unit developed a framework for colonial cinema, this included slow edits, no camera tricks and minimal camera movement. Hundreds of films were created in
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Still Birth of the Commune-head 2015 80'
  Directed by Qiao Wu .
Each Floral-belt Dai village has a “Commune-head” who takes charge of annual collective ceremonies. The Commune-head is picked out through a God election ritual. All candidates’ clothes should
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The Storehouses of the World 2018 27'
    Directed by Timothy Cooper Abeera Arif-Bashir .
In the Pakistani city of Lahore an audiocassette recorded decades ago deep among the crowd at a ritual mourning procession continues to circulate in the neighbourhood in which it was first made.
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Stories about Mlimani Park Orchestra 2022 110'
    Ethnomusicology Directed by Frank Gunderson .
Tanzanian rhumba band, Mlimani Park Orchestra (aka Sikinde), performs in the music genre musiki wa dansi (literally, “music for dancing”), a variation of the Cuban-based rumba idiom that has been
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Stories from Cabo Corrientes 2020 77'
    Main Competition Directed by Jordi Esteva .
The documentary immerses us in the fantastic and magical stories of the inhabitants of Cabo Corrientes, Chocò District (Colombia) where a community of Afro-Colombians, descended from slaves of
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Strengh of Women Pataxó of the Mother Village 2019 58'
    Arandu - Listen to the Weather Directed by Caamini Braz Vanuzia Bonfim .
Pataxó women speak up. This film is part of Arandu: Listen to the Weather, a festival sidebar celebrating 35 years of Indigenous filmmaking from Brazil: key films and filmmakers working from the
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Sunday 2018 25'
    Special Interest Directed by Paulo Mendel Vitor Grunvald .
A colourful and noisy encounter with Família Stronger, a LGBTQIA+ collective in the neighbourhood of Jardim Nazaré, on São Paulo’s periphery. Across a split screen, Sunday portrays a single day
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Survivors 2018 84'
    Main Competition Directed by WeOwnTV .
With unflinching intimacy this film chronicles the remarkable stories of four Sierra Leoneans during the Ebola epidemic in what is regarded as the most acute public health crisis of the modern era
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Swirling in the dreams 2022 78'
    Main Competition Directed by Hung En Su .
In spite of the spread of Christianity and introduction of modern medicine, Taiwan’s indigenous peoples have always had a need for their traditional beliefs. For the people in these tribes, when
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The season 2020 63'
  Directed by Anna Grimshaw .
This is part 4 of a 7-part series. Lobsters slowly migrate north, moving into the Machias Bay from warmer, southern waters. George works quickly to finish setting his full quota of traps.
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