Films 20 Films Festival Prize Category "Student" x films with a digital version 15 short films 9 films available on demand 8 Region Caribbean Islands 1 Central Asia and Far East 2 East Africa 1 Eastern Europe and Baltic States 1 North America 3 Scandinavia 1 South America 4 South Asia 3 South-East Asia 2 Southern Africa 1 West Africa 1 Western Europe 1 Western Mediterranean 1 Country Angola 1 Anguilla 1 Brazil 2 Chile 1 Denmark 1 India 2 Indonesia 2 Italy 1 Mongolia 1 Pakistan 1 Romania 1 Russian Federation 1 Senegal 1 Sweden 1 Switzerland 1 Tanzania 1 United States 3 Venezuela 1 Keywords Alternative culture 1 Animation 1 Art / Artists / Artisans 3 Collective / Community identity 2 Dance / Theatre / Performance 3 Development projects 3 Disasters 1 Environment 2 Everyday Life 2 Family / Kinship 3 Festivals / Carnival 2 Film / Photography / Mass media 3 Food / Water 1 Gender Role and Identity 2 Health / Health care / Healing 2 Hunting / Gathering / Fishing 1 Indigenous peoples / First Nations peoples 2 Infrastructure / Transport 1 Intergenerational relations 1 LGBTQI* 4 Law and Legislation / Bureaucracy 2 Life Story / Life History 2 Linguistics / Language 1 Love 1 Marriage 1 Material Culture 1 Memory 3 Migration 1 Music / Ethnomusicology 1 Participatory / Collaborative methods 2 Political Activists 1 Post-communism 2 Prison 1 Race / Racism / Antiracism 1 Refugees / Displaced populations 1 Religion / Belief / Faith 4 Reproduction (biology) 1 Research methods 1 Resettlement 1 Ritual 1 Rural 1 Sex / Sexuality 2 Shamans and Shamanism 1 Social Change 2 Urban 1 Directors Asadi Faezi, Daniel 1 Assunção, Matthias Röhrig 1 Burstin, Costanza 1 Cabezas Pino, Angélica 1 Colucci, Erminia 1 D'onofrio, Alexandra 1 Davidson, John Paul 1 Dettmann, Christine 1 Golovnev, Ivan 1 Grimshaw, Anna 1 Henley, Paul 1 Jeppesen, Kira de Hemmer 1 Lloyd, Ravi Hart 1 Lu, Wanwan 1 Merli, Laetitia 1 Pakleppa, Richard 1 Satija, Dhruv 1 Smith, Sophia Hersi 1 Sonderegger, Ramona 1 Sowa, Remigiusz (aka Remi) 1 Wildenauer, Nora 1 Șalaru, Maria 1 Series Granada Center for Visual Anthropology Student Film 1 not set 19 Country of production Australia 1 Brazil 1 Chile 1 Germany 1 India 2 Indonesia 2 Italy 2 Netherlands 1 Pakistan 1 Romania 1 Russia 1 Senegal 1 South Africa 1 Switzerland 1 Tanzania 1 United Kingdom 10 United States 2 Year of production 1987 1 1990 1 2000 1 2012 1 2013 1 2014 1 2015 5 2016 4 2017 1 2018 4 Festival Prize Category Film list The Absence of Apricots 2018 49' Student Directed by Daniel Asadi Faezi . In the Hunza Valley in the northern Pakistan there is a magnificent turquoise lake. But the lake hasn’t been always there: it is the result of a massive landslide that blocked a river, causing South Asia Environment Memory Development projects Resettlement The Block 2016 60' Student Directed by Maria Șalaru . From neighbourly disputes over garlic-heavy cooking to memories of Ceaușescu’s heatless winters, "The Block" explores the rich social and material universe of a Romanian apartment Eastern Europe and Baltic States Urban Post-communism Infrastructure / Transport Body Games - Capoeira and Ancestry 2014 87' Student Directed by Richard Pakleppa Matthias Röhrig Assunção Christine Dettmann . The film follows master Cobra Mansa and his friends in the search for the African roots of the Brazilian martial art Capoeira. A powerful myth links Capoeira to a legendary Angolan game called Engolo South America Southern Africa Dance / Theatre / Performance Music / Ethnomusicology Festivals / Carnival Breaking the Chains 2015 64' Student Directed by Erminia Colucci . The practice of using shackles and chains to physically restrain people with mental illness (known as pasung) is widespread in Indonesia (as in many other developing/low middle income countries) and South-East Asia Prison Health / Health care / Healing Political Activists Development projects 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 A Chair: in six parts 2013 42' Student Directed by Anna Grimshaw . A poem about a chair. In 1960, Bill Coperthwaite bought 300 acres of wilderness in Machiasport, Maine. Influenced by the poetry of Emily Dickinson and by the back to the land movement of Scott and North America Material Culture Alternative culture Art / Artists / Artisans Cuyagua - the Saint With Two Faces 1987 56' Student Directed by Paul Henley . The film centres on the predominantly female celebration of the feast of Saint John. The women sing the songs associated with the Feast, describe their beliefs and how they organise the feast. South America Ritual Religion / Belief / Faith Festivals / Carnival 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 Fighting for Nothing to Happen 2015 48' Student Directed by Nora Wildenauer . After the volcanic eruption of Mount Rokatenda, the people of the island of Pulau Palue in east Indonesia are to be relocated. But are the planned relocation and the "new" life at the South-East Asia Law and Legislation / Bureaucracy Refugees / Displaced populations Development projects Disasters The Guest 2012 20' Student Directed by Kira de Hemmer Jeppesen . Following the personal story of a Danish first-time surrogate mother, 'The Guest' explores issues of maternal bonding, modern families, relatedness, and desired control over body and mind. We follow Scandinavia LGBTQI* Sex / Sexuality Reproduction (biology) Family / Kinship IT WAS TOMORROW 2018 53' Student Directed by Alexandra D'onofrio . After living in Italy for almost ten years without documents, three Egyptian men - Ali, Mahmoud and Mohamed - are suddenly awarded legal residence. As a whole new world of opportunities opens up to Western Mediterranean Animation Art / Artists / Artisans Dance / Theatre / Performance Film / Photography / Mass media Life Story / Life History Memory Migration Research methods Participatory / Collaborative methods Kanraxël: the Confluence of Agnack 2015 52' Student Directed by Remigiusz (aka Remi) Sowa . **DVD copies are available for secondary teaching and home use at the following prices: £35 (plus VAT) schools and colleges; £20 (plus VAT) individual / home use licence** Agnack is a West Africa Linguistics / Language Social Change Land of Udehe 2015 26' Student Directed by Ivan Golovnev . This film takes us into the world of Udehe – indigenous people of the Far East of Russia. According to the census of 2010, their population dropped to 1,490 souls… Central Asia and Far East Indigenous peoples / First Nations peoples Social Change Paani: of women and water 2018 22' Student Directed by Costanza Burstin . Against the bleached sky of Rajasthan, we encounter the women of a small Muslim village as they engage in their work. Here, water binds their daily labour rituals: they collect and carry water in South Asia Environment Food / Water Gender Role and Identity Rural Everyday Life The Storyteller 1990 50' Student Directed by John Paul Davidson . Unaware of the written word until the 1950s, the Waura tribe who live in the headwaters of the Xingu river in Brazil still practise the art of storytelling. Tribal storyteller Aruta recounts one of South America Indigenous peoples / First Nations peoples Dance / Theatre / Performance Religion / Belief / Faith This is My Face 2018 57' Student Directed by Angélica Cabezas Pino . In Chile, people living with HIV fear stigma, and often conceal their condition and remain silent about what they are going through. This is My Face explores what happens when a range of men living South America LGBTQI* Participatory / Collaborative methods Health / Health care / Healing Gender Role and Identity Film / Photography / Mass media Memory Life Story / Life History Art / Artists / Artisans Treasured Moments 2016 33' Student Directed by Ravi Hart Lloyd . This is the personal story of a boy who grew up mixed in every aspect of his life, his parents, where he was from, his race. The black kid who thought that he was white. The white kid who thought Caribbean Islands North America Family / Kinship Race / Racism / Antiracism Collective / Community identity Film / Photography / Mass media The Way We Live Now 2016 32' Student Directed by Sophia Hersi Smith . 'The Way We Live Now' is an intimate portrait of the daily routines and rituals of the Hadza; modern-day hunter-gatherers living in the acacia-baobab woodlands surrounding Lake Eyasi in North-Central East Africa Hunting / Gathering / Fishing Everyday Life Welcome Valentine 2017 2017 16' Student Directed by Dhruv Satija . In a temple dedicated to Hanuman in Ahmedabad, Gujarat, a priest flouts convention by marrying couples who are shunned elsewhere: mostly those who have eloped from families who disapprove of their South Asia Marriage Love LGBTQI* Religion / Belief / Faith Youth Group 2015 28' Student Directed by Wanwan Lu . Set in the predominantly Asian “ethnoburbs” of Los Angeles County, this film follows a vibrant Buddhist youth group in a Chinese-American temple. Youth group members, most raised by immigrant North America Collective / Community identity Religion / Belief / Faith Intergenerational relations