Film list

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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)
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Dor, Low is Better 1988 47'
    Directed by Robert Boonzajer-Flaes .
The film offers an experimental approach to the comparative study of cultures: the monks of a Tibetan monastery compare their own flutes with the Swiss alphorn and the Dutch windhorn introduced to
South Asia Music / Ethnomusicology Ritual
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Persistence 2019 54'
    Main Competition Directed by Anne Huffschmid Jan-Holger Hennies .
Human bodies donโ€™t simply disappear. They were kidnapped, buried, broken into pieces. But they are also searched for, recovered and if forensic experts achieve the unlikely, reconstructed as
Central America Forensic Memory
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Pride of Place - Observations of lives of girls at a Public School 1976 59'
  Directed by Dorothea Gazidis Kimona Landseer Kim Longinotto .
A rarely seen classic, PRIDE OF PLACE was made as a first project while Longinotto was a student at Englandโ€™s National School of Television and Film. As a teenager, the filmmaker had been condemned
British-Irish Isles Children / Young people Education / Knowledge Transmission Gender Role and Identity
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Uma: a water crisis in Bolivia 2020 76'
  Directed by Ana ๐—Ÿ๐—น๐—ฎ๐—ฐ๐—ฒ๐—ฟ .
Uma: a water crisis in Bolivia tells the story of three Andean indigenous communities in the highlands of Bolivia who are fighting to protect their water from diversion and contamination amid a
South America Environment Food / Water Gender Role and Identity Indigenous peoples / First Nations peoples Land Rights Political Activists Resistance Rural Social Conflict