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Tourism / Travel / Pilgrimage 20 Trade 13 Travellers / Roma 6 Urban 21 War / Conflict / Reconciliation 27 not set 5 Directors Aaltonen, Jouko 1 Afreen, Sara 1 Ahmad Simon, Kamar 1 Ahmed, Akbar 1 Akin, Dorcas 1 Al Akash, Ruba 1 Allward, Caroline 1 Alves-Costa, Catarina 1 Anttila, Birgitta H. 1 Arcé, Adrian 1 Arnott, Susi 1 Asadi Faezi, Daniel 1 Asare-Nyako, Afua 1 Asch, Patsy 9 Asch, Timothy 9 Ash, David 1 Assunção, Matthias Röhrig 1 Atieno, Lavine 1 Austena, Aunund 1 Awino, Effie 1 Ayisi, Florence 1 Baily, John 11 Balikci, Anna 1 Balikci, Asen 2 Balikci-Denjongpa, Anna 1 Banks, Marcus 1 Barbash, Ilisa 1 Barreiro, Georgina 1 Basu, Helene 1 Beckham, Michael 2 Beier, Ulli 1 Belkind, Lukas 1 Benfield, Andy 1 Berg, Julia 1 Bhattachary, Nilanjan 1 Blake, John 2 Bonifacio, Valentina 1 Boonzajer-Flaes, Robert 2 Boswall, Karen 1 Bradbury, Ray 1 Brass, Anna 1 Brewer, Teri F. 1 Brice, Mark 1 Bringa, Tone 1 Bringas, Sylvie 1 Brown, David 1 Bruun, Dan 1 Burstin, Costanza 1 Cabezas Pino, Angélica 1 Cai, Hua 2 Calugareanu, Ilinca 1 Campbell, Karlia 1 Cao, Umberto 1 Carr, Peter 1 Chabamier, Gabriel 1 Chabanier, Gabriel 1 Chambers, Simon 1 Cheetham, Ben 1 Christie, Debbie 1 Christodoulou, Chris 1 Clarissou, Priscilla 1 Clay, Charlie 1 Clifford-Jaeger, Simone 1 Colucci, Erminia 1 Connor, Linda 5 Contreras, Elisa 1 Contreras, Isis 1 Cook, Alistair 1 Coppe, Alexia 1 Coppens, Sharis 1 Corral Paredes, Carolina 1 Croall, Heather 1 Cross, Stephen 1 Cubero, Carlo A. 1 Curling, Chris 5 Curtis, Edward S. 1 D'onofrio, Alexandra 1 Davidson, John Paul 1 Davies, Sera 1 Day, Mike 1 Defersha, Eyob 1 Deger, Jennifer 1 Demiralay, Hakan 1 Dettmann, Christine 1 Deveson, Philippa 1 Diaz, Juan Diego 1 Diengdoh, Wanphrang 1 Dietrich, Martha-Cecilia 2 Dineen, Molly 1 Domenig, Aya 1 Dontchev, Antonii 1 Dreiss, Meredith 1 Drion, Georges 1 Dumont, Dirk 1 Dunlop, Ian 1 Dunne, Bryony 1 Eaton, Michael 1 Edwards, Bob 1 Elixhauser, Sophie 1 Elliot, Dominic 1 Engelbrecht, Beate 1 Engels, Claudia 1 Entell, Peter 1 Eschenbach, Sebastian 1 Esteva, Jordi 2 Fales, Ludovica 1 Farrell, Emma 1 Fassnidge, Matthew 1 Fedda, Yasmin 1 Ferrarese, Adriana 1 Ferrarini, Lorenzo 1 Finnestad, Mari 1 Flores, Carlos 1 Folly, Anne Laure 1 Ford, Ellie 1 Forge, Anthony 1 Fossgard-Moser, Titus 1 Fox, J. 1 Fox, James J. 1 Francois, Alexandre 1 French, Dominic 1 Fruzzetti, Lina 2 Gabrehiwot, Mitiku 1 Garland, Christy 1 Gazidis, Dorothea 1 Geißler, Wenzel 1 Getzels, Peter 1 Glass, Aaron 1 Goldberg, Claudia 1 Golovnev, Ivan 1 Gordon, Harriet 1 Graham, Trevor 2 Grasseni, Cristina 1 Greenwood, Rachel 1 Grieco, Anthony 1 Griggs, David 1 Grigsby, Michael 1 Grimshaw, Anna 6 Grohnert, Sarah 1 Grootheest, Sjoerd van 1 Grossenbacher, Ulrich 1 Grossman, Alan 1 Grossman, Alyssa 2 Grove-White, Will 1 Gruber, Martin 1 Grégoire, Charlotte 1 Guzzetti, Alfred 1 Gómez Ruíz, Sebastián 1 Haddis, Tesfahun 1 Haensch, Valerie 1 Hajee, Amin 1 Hammill, Ruth 1 Hann, Amelia 1 Hansen, Anne-Katrine 1 Hanson, Kieran 1 Hardie, Amy 1 Harper, Peggy 2 Harries, Andy 3 Hartford, Hugh 1 Hatland, Line 1 Hawkins, Richard 1 Hawkins, Russel 1 Heald, Suzette 1 Heer, Madelief de 1 Hellwig, Jean 1 Henley, Paul 6 Hertog, Ester 1 Heusch, Luc de 1 Hill, Amanda 1 Hill, Joanna 1 Hirl, Alexander 1 Hogel, Jakob 1 Holtedahl, Lisbet 1 Hopkins, Ben 1 Horat, Thomas 1 Horton, Robin 1 Howes, Arthur 3 Htway, Aung Nwai 1 Hughes, Richard 1 Hughes-Freeland, Felicia 2 Hunt, Claire 1 Hunt, Clare 1 Husmann, Rolf 3 Hörmann, André 1 Ihle, Johanne Haaber 1 Iteanu, Andre 1 Jaquerod, Muriel 1 Jayasankar, KP 2 Jeppesen, Kira de Hemmer 1 Jerstad, Jon 2 Johnson, Dul 1 Johnston, Graham 2 Johnston, Ned 1 Journet, Martine 2 Juárez-Allen, Gema 1 Kapon, Eytan 1 Kashyap, Kumar 1 Kawanami, Hiroko 1 Kawase, Itsushi 1 Kaymak, Vedide 1 Kenneil, Alastair 1 Kerlogue, Fiona 1 Kezich, Giovanni 1 Kharel, Dipesh 2 Kildea, Gary 3 Kirk, Laura 1 Kirkwood, Nick 1 Kriszio, Janina 1 Kuentz, Gaspard 1 Kumar, Shikha 1 Kurc, Julia 1 Kurutuac, Judith 1 LaPin, Deirdre 1 Lancker, Laurent Van 1 Landseer, Kimona 1 Lane, Bruce Pacho 1 Langer, Vanessa 1 Langhorst, Insa 1 Lansing, Steven 1 Lappalainen, Heimo 3 Lasko, Claire 2 Lawrence, Andy 2 Leach, Jerry 1 Lehto, Veera 1 Leizaola, Ricardo 2 Lepcha, Dawa 1 Lepcha, Dawa T 1 Levaulx-Vrecourt, Henriette 1 Levie, Francoise 1 Lewis, Ariane 1 Lindner, Tobias 1 Lipsanen, Heidi 1 Llewelyn-Davies, Melissa 1 Lloyd, Ravi Hart 1 Loizos, Peter 3 Longinotto, Kim 16 Loïzos, Peter 1 Lu, Wanwan 1 Luethi, Damaris 1 Lutz, Peter 1 Lwin, Kyaw Myo 1 Lydall, Jean 2 Ma, Chi-hang 1 Maagdenberg, Ester 1 MacDonald, Bruce 3 MacDonald, Caro 1 MacDougall, David 29 MacDougall, Judith 16 Mafundikwa, Karen Marks 1 Magaña, Jaime 1 Magnússon, Jón Bjarki 1 Mai, Nick 2 Marcus, Alan 1 Marin, Nadja 1 McKenzie, Kim 1 Meenakshi, Anushka 1 Meriwether, Maria 1 Merli, Laetitia 1 Merrun, Gabriel 1 Meyknecht, Steef 1 Milling, Julie 1 Milne, Claudia 1 Milner, George 1 Mir-Hosseini, Ziba 1 Moderbacher, Christine 1 Moffat, Zemirah 1 Moggan, Julie 1 Mollona, Massimiliano 1 Monahan, Trent 1 Monteiro, Anjali 2 Moore, Allen 1 Mora, Alba 1 Mora, Yves 1 Morris, Bessie 1 Moser, Brian 7 Mukhopadhayay, Kanchan 1 Munro, Neil G. 1 Mura, Andrea 1 Musleh, Hanna 1 Møhl, Perle 1 Nairn, Charlie 5 Namondwe, Charles 1 Navarro Smith, Alejandra 1 Ndinya, June 1 Newman, David 1 Nguyen, M. Trinh 1 Nicolau, João 1 Nielsen, Christian Suhr 1 Niglas, Liivo 1 Njoki, Ruth 1 Nougarol, Gérard 2 Okojie, Paul 1 Olatunji, Ife 1 Ono, Ray 1 Oo, Zaw Naing 1 Opipari, Carmen 1 Otto, Ton 2 Owen, Chris 2 Owles, Ed 1 O’Brien, Áine 1 Pakaslahti, Antti 1 Pakleppa, Richard 1 Papenbrook, Jana 1 Pardee, Lucy 1 Pasini, Carlos 2 Paterek, Austin 1 Patriarca, Niccolo 1 Payne, Becky 1 Pedrosa, Patrícia 1 Pereira, Nilton 1 Petropoulou, Irene 1 Picard, David 1 Pinhheiro, Joceny 1 Planas, María Elena 1 Plessis, Nancy du 1 Pollack, Claire 1 Powell, Harry 1 Pratt, Helen 1 Prince, Raymond 1 Prince, Ruth 1 Prothero, Sarah 1 Rasmussen, Ulla 2 Rasmussen, Ulla Boje 1 Ravetz, Amanda 1 Read, Rosie 1 Rens, Maarten 1 Rice, Tom 1 Richards, Naomi 1 Richter, Thomas 1 Rivero Uicab, Carlos R. 1 Robertson, Rachel 1 Robinson, Paul 1 Rosell, Ulises 1 Rosen, Jennifer 1 Rousso-Schindler, Steven 4 Roy, Rahul 3 Saito, Asami 1 Saltman, Carlyn 1 Samir-Shakir, Yasmin 1 Sandall, Roger 1 Sandberg, Eirik 1 Sanmartí, Anna 1 Saraiva Pereira, Eduardo 1 Satija, Dhruv 1 Savage, Rebecca 1 Schillaci, Rosella 1 Schillaci, Rossella 2 Schiltz, Anne 1 Schlenker, Juana 1 Schädler, Natalie 1 Seaman, Gary 4 Seitz, Anni 1 Shakerifar, Elhum 1 Shalygin, Cliff Orloff and Olga 1 Sharma, Aparna 1 Sheahan, Tom 1 Sheppard, John 4 Shivhare, Ravi 1 Shuffield, Robin 1 Simon, Andrea 1 Sincich, Francesco 1 Singer, André 17 Singh, Anshu 1 Sjøberg, Johannes 1 Smith, Sophia Hersi 1 Solomons, Natasha 1 Sonderegger, Ramona 1 Song, Zhifang 4 Sorensen, Richard 1 Sowa, Remigiusz (aka Remi) 1 Speed, Frank 7 Sperscheinder, Werner 1 Sperschneider, Werner 1 Srikumar, Iswar 1 Stefani, Fotini 1 Strasse, Cornelia 1 Straube, Anna 1 Strecker, Ivo 1 Strecker, Kaira 2 Sturtevant, Chuck 1 Suhr, Christian 1 Tanlaka, Kilian Lamtur 1 Tari, János 2 Taylor, Jamie 1 Taylor, Lucien 1 Tender, Priit 1 Timbert, Sylvie 1 Torresan, Angela 1 Torson, Jennifer 1 Tovey, Ana 1 Trentini, Michele 38 Tsering Lepcha, Dawa 1 Tuchtenhagen, Ruth 1 Tucker, Andrew 1 Vella, Steve 1 Villafaña Chaparro, Amado 1 Vinken, Polly 1 Vischer, Michael P. 1 Visser, Mara Lin 1 Vohra, Paromita 1 Vybiral, James 1 Vávrová, Daniela 1 Waage, Trond 1 Wason, David 5 Webster, Rachel 1 Wendl, Tobias 1 Werbner, Richard 10 Werner, Louis 1 Wessels, Joshka 1 Wester, Hasse 1 Whitby-Coles, Charlotte 1 Wildenauer, Nora 1 Willerslev, Rane 1 Williams, Jano 3 Winter, Pattie 1 Wittersheim, Eric 1 Woodhead, Leslie 12 Wright, Evie 1 Wunungmurra, Paul 1 Xiong, Xun 1 Yezbick, Julia 1 Yorke, Michael 1 Youngstein, Theo 1 Zirión, Antonio 1 de Bromhead, Toni 6 not set 1 van Lanker, Laurent 1 Östör, Ákos 2 Øien, Cecilie 1 Șalaru, Maria 1 Series ANU, Indonesia Series 12 Ambulante Beyond 3 Carnival King of Europe 38 Caught in a Web 3 Disappearing World Series 54 Doon School Project 5 Forbidden Rites 3 Granada Center for Visual Anthropology Student Film 116 Granada Centre for Visual Anthropology Staff Film 3 Guardians of Productive Landscapes 5 In Search of Cool Ground: The Mursi Trilogy 3 Mr Coperthwaite: a life in the Maine Woods 4 National Film and Television School 10 Song Family Village 4 Strangers Abroad 6 Sudan Trilogy 3 Taiga Nomads 3 The Well-Being Quest in Botswana 8 Turkana Conversations 3 Western Outposts - Faroese Cinematic Narratives 3 Yangon Film School 3 not set 258 Country of production Argentina 2 Australia 56 Austria 1 Bangladesh 1 Belgium 6 Bolivia 1 Brazil 2 Bulgaria 1 Cameroon 1 Canada 5 Chile 1 China 7 Colombia 1 Côte d'Ivoire 1 Denmark 8 Egypt 1 Estonia 1 Ethiopia 4 Finland 5 France 11 Germany 22 Greece 2 Hong Kong 1 Hungary 2 Iceland 1 India 21 Indonesia 2 Ireland 1 Italy 47 Jamaica 1 Japan 4 Jordan 1 Kenya 2 Mexico 5 Myanmar 3 Nepal 1 Netherlands 7 New Zealand 1 Nigeria 7 Norway 5 Pakistan 1 Papua New Guinea 1 Peru 1 Portugal 1 Romania 2 Russia 1 Senegal 2 Slovenia 1 South Africa 1 Spain 3 Sweden 2 Switzerland 8 Tanzania 1 United Kingdom 295 United States 48 Venezuela 1 not set 5 Year of production 1931 1 1952 1 1963 2 1964 1 1966 1 1969 1 1970 3 1971 3 1972 4 1973 4 1974 9 1975 5 1976 3 1977 7 1978 2 1979 4 1980 7 1981 2 1982 5 1983 12 1984 6 1985 7 1986 10 1987 9 1988 12 1989 12 1990 6 1991 10 1992 11 1993 8 1994 6 1995 4 1996 7 1997 12 1998 11 1999 11 2000 17 2001 16 2002 14 2003 16 2004 12 2005 10 2006 13 2007 17 2008 26 2009 24 2010 23 2011 16 2012 15 2013 16 2014 18 2015 20 2016 22 2017 18 2018 10 2019 5 Film list Coming of Age - Margaret Mead (1901-1978) 1986 52' Film Directed by André Singer . Central Television’s major documentary series looks at the first anthropologists to stop ‘armchair theorising’ and go out to live among the peoples who so interested them. The six part series Various History of Anthropology Public Figure Masks of Mer 2010 37' Film Directed by Michael Eaton . The film Alfred Haddon made in 1898 in the Torres Straits, lasting for less than a minute, is the world's first example of anthropological cinema. 'The Masks of Mer' tells the extraordinary story of Australia History of Anthropology Film / Photography / Mass media Archival material / Museum displays Ritual The Shackles of Tradition - Franz Boas (1858-1942) 1986 52' Film Directed by André Singer . Central Television’s major documentary series looks at the first anthropologists to stop ‘armchair theorising’ and go out to live among the peoples who so interested them. The six part series Various History of Anthropology Public Figure The Gilles of La Louvière and the Chinels of Fosses-la-Ville 2014 9' Film Directed by Michele Trentini . In the Catholic, French-speaking part of Belgium, monumental, all-encompassing masquerades take place in the middle of Lent. This film is part of **Carnival King of Europe DVD 6 - RITUAL Western Europe Folklore Festivals / Carnival A Rite on the Run: the Blùmari of Benecija 2015 10' Film Directed by Michele Trentini . In the Slovenian-speaking Italian Benecija, the Blùmari run across the village fields once a year, just like the Arval Brethren of ancient Rome. This film is part of **Carnival King of Europe DVD South-East Europe Folklore Festivals / Carnival The Double Walk of the Joaldunak 2011 10' Film Directed by Michele Trentini . Joaldunak are “those who resound”, the great bell ringers heralding the Carnival parade between the twin villages of Ituren and Zubieta in the Basque-speaking Spanish Naffaroa. This film is Western Mediterranean Festivals / Carnival Folklore Family Subsistence in the Hills of Hamar. We are guests of Shawa 2019 58' Film Directed by Jean Lydall Kaira Strecker . The film is a sequel to former films on Hamar directed by Jean Lydall and Kaira Strecker, and contributes to the Guardians of Productive Landscapes series. Kaira's childhood friend Shawa moved as a North and Northeast Africa Agriculture / Farming Everyday Life Food / Water The Professional Foreigner 2009 60' Film Directed by Rolf Husmann . Asen Balikci has been a leading figure in making ethnographic films for many decades. In a series of talks between Balikci and filmmaker Rolf Husmann in different locations, the life and work of Asen Various Film / Photography / Mass media History of Anthropology Public Figure The Day of the Rams in Gljev 2012 17' Film Directed by Michele Trentini . The Didi of Gljev, in the Dalmatian hinterland, are fully-fledged rams and for the duration a day they act and behave as if they were a single magical flock. This film is part of **Carnival King South-East Europe Festivals / Carnival Folklore The Day of the Zanni 2016 17' Film Directed by Michele Trentini . The Zanni of central Italy, are the same as the Pulcinella of the South of Italy or the Lachè in the North. They are Carnival heralds, clad in white, with a pointed, ribboned, imposing headpiece. South-East Europe Folklore Festivals / Carnival The Silvesters of Urnäsch 2011 13' Film Directed by Michele Trentini . A celebration of mountain wilderness is all too evident in the costumes of the Silvesters of Urnäsch in Outer Appenzell, particularly in their “Pretty/Ugly” version. This film is part of Western Europe Festivals / Carnival The Great Epiphany of Wörth 2017 13' Film Directed by Michele Trentini . On the day of the Epiphany, a grand parade half-way between Christianity and paganism is staged, incorporating all the ancient characters of Alpine fables, the Twelve Days of Christmas, and the Three Central Europe Festivals / Carnival Folklore The White Primavera of the Agordino 2016 16' Film Directed by Michele Trentini . The beauty of the village, impersonating a gypsy woman, the Zinghenesta, has the main dancing role in the masquerade. This film is part of **Carnival King of Europe DVD 5 PARADING THE VILLAGE**. South-East Europe Folklore Festivals / Carnival The Short Happy Life of the Poklad 2012 27' Film Directed by Michele Trentini . In the Dalmatian island of Lastovo, the Poklad is a monumental, all-encompassing annual celebration. Dressed as XIX C. British marines, the Pokladari escort the captive dummy to its death. This South-East Europe Festivals / Carnival Folklore Abraham and Sarah. Creators of a productive landscape. 2017 53' Film Directed by Ivo Strecker . In the highlands of Tigray - northern Ethiopia - on the edge of the escarpment that descends steeply to the Danakil dessert, Hagos Mashisho and Desta Gidey have toiled and struggled for years to turn North and Northeast Africa Rural Agriculture / Farming The Beautiful White Masks of Rèsije 2017 15' Film Directed by Michele Trentini . In a small community of Italian Slavic-speakers, the performance by the Beautiful White Masks, impersonated by women, comes to an abrupt end with the burning of the Babaz. This film is part of South-East Europe Festivals / Carnival Folklore Carnival King of Europe. Release 2.0 2011 38' Film 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 We can be heroes just for (two) days. The Jannisaries of Naoussa 2016 20' Film Directed by Michele Trentini . The memory of an heroic episode of resistance against the Ottomans is re-enacted in Naoussa every year with the parade of an army of Janissaries. This film is part of **Carnival King of Europe DVD South-East Europe Folklore Festivals / Carnival The trial, sentence and execution of Johnny Woodstock 2010 15' Film Directed by Michele Trentini . Carnival trials such as that held in Valda, in the mountains of Trentino, are commonplace throughout Europe. Death sentence is for granted. This film is part of **Carnival King of Europe DVD 8 - South-East Europe Festivals / Carnival Folklore The Passion and Death of the Carlisèp 2015 19' Film Directed by Michele Trentini . In Schignano, in the Lombardy mountains close to the Swiss border, Carlisèp is the local name of the Carnival dummy, who attempts a last minute escape. Carnival trials such as that held in Valda, South-East Europe Festivals / Carnival Folklore In Aiye's Garden. Propagation and Processing of Enset in the Gamo Highlands 2019 58' Film Directed by Eyob Defersha . In Aiye’s Garden is a film in the Guardians of Productive Landscapes series (editor Ivo Strecker). Enset, which is related to the banana plant, is very drought resistant and a good source of North and Northeast Africa Agriculture / Farming Food / Water The Day of the Masks on the Karst 2017 14' Film Directed by Michele Trentini . A small village in the Slovenian Karst is entirely taken over by the local masks, the so called “Škoromati”. This film is part of **Carnival King of Europe DVD 7 - THE PASTORAL LEGACY**. The South-East Europe Folklore Festivals / Carnival The Day of the Pustje on Mt. Matajur 2015 11' Film Directed by Michele Trentini . Throughout western Slovenia, Pust or Pustje are the names given to the Carnival dummy and the same names are also used in the Italian side of the Julian Alps. This film is part of **Carnival King South-East Europe Folklore Festivals / Carnival Visions of Shrove Thursday in Central Tyrol 2014 10' Film Directed by Michele Trentini . Due to the strict Jesuit prohibitions in olden days, the central Tyrol Fasnacht tends to ends on Shrove Thursday, a few days earlier than elsewhere. This film is part of **Carnival King of Europe Central Europe Folklore Festivals / Carnival The Silvesterchläuse of Hundwil 2014 12' Film Directed by Michele Trentini . The old Julian New Year’s Eve on January 13th is still observed and celebrated in some Reformed communities in Outer Appenzell in Switzerland. This film is part of **Carnival King of Europe DVD Western Europe Festivals / Carnival Folklore Koza Szymborska. The Day of the Goat in Szymborze 2011 14' Film Directed by Michele Trentini . The Koza or Goat is animal that gives the masquerade its name throughout Eastern Europe, from Romania to Moldavia and the Ukraine, and all the way to northern Poland where we filmed it. This film Central Europe Festivals / Carnival Folklore Wási 2017 16' Film Shorts Directed by Sebastián Gómez Ruíz Amado Villafaña Chaparro . As the sun rises on a village in northern Colombia, we glimpse its inhabitants as they begin their day. As the scene emerges from obscurity, a voiceover reflects on the nature of sight. It is the South America Indigenous peoples / First Nations peoples Indigenous Filmmaking History of Anthropology Film / Photography / Mass media The Blooms of Benjeli: Technology and Gender in West African Ironmaking 1997 29' Film Directed by Carlyn Saltman . The filmmaker and two historians went into the village of Banjeli in 1985 to recreate for the film the traditional iron smelting techniques (which are no longer used) of the area. By focusing on the West Africa Art / Artists / Artisans Archival material / Museum displays History Material Culture Tracking the Pale Fox: Studies on the Dogon 1983 48' Film Directed by Luc de Heusch . This film tells with verve and a touch of self-irony the history of research on the Dogon since the famous 1931 expedition of Marcel Griaule. The film establishes the original expedition in the West Africa History of Anthropology Looking for the Man Of Aran 1999 25' Film Directed by Sebastian Eschenbach . It is 60 years since Robert Flaherty made Man of Aran. How do the people of the Aran Islands remember the experience and what do they feel about the image the films gives of their land? British-Irish Isles Film / Photography / Mass media History of Anthropology The Shilluk of Southern Sudan 1976 52' Film Directed by Chris Curling . This film presents a compelling visual and aural analysis of Shilluk kingship in 1975, and provides a very useful complement to Evans-Pritchard's 1948 text, The Divine Kingship of the Shilluk. North and Northeast Africa Collective / Community identity Social Organisation The Eskimos of Pond Inlet 1977 52' Film Directed by Michael Grigsby . For the Eskimos of Pond Inlet - a new village in North Baffin Island in which they have been settled by the Canadian Government – the life of the semi-nomadic hunter has given way to that of North America Indigenous peoples / First Nations peoples Hunting / Gathering / Fishing Collective / Community identity Social Conflict In and Out of Africa 1993 59' Film Directed by Ilisa Barbash Lucien Taylor . A classic in ethnographic filmmaking, In and Out of Africa traces the transnational trade of African Art between West Africa and the USA, providing an insight into how value, commoditization and North America Art / Artists / Artisans Trade Material Culture Unity: Dress-scapes of Accra 2016 37' Film Directed by Mara Lin Visser . This is a film about African fashion in the capital of Ghana. African printed fabrics seem to making a comeback in the fashion system of Accra. While following Allan, a fashion designer and his wife West Africa Trade Material Culture Art / Artists / Artisans The Herders of Mongun-Taiga 1989 52' Film Directed by John Sheppard . The Tuvinians live deep inside the Soviet Union, at the very centre of Asia. Tuva is geographically closer to Peking than to Moscow. It only entered the USSR in 1944 and was closed to foreigners Central Asia and Far East Herding Nomads and Nomadism Shamans and Shamanism Gender Role and Identity Social Change The Bear Chase 2009 7' Film Directed by Michele Trentini . In the Catalan-speaking southern France, a proper “Bear Chase”, of the kind that was once popular throughout Europe, has been revived in a carnival context. This film is part of **Carnival Western Europe Festivals / Carnival Folklore Camels of the Pitjantjara 1969 45' Film Directed by Roger Sandall . From the 1920s onwards, when motor vehicles displaced camels as a mode of supply in central Australia, camels gradually went feral. As this film shows, however, in the 1960s, the Pitjantjara were Australia Indigenous peoples / First Nations peoples Infrastructure / Transport Animals The Kazakhs of China 1983 52' Film Directed by André Singer . The Kazakhs of Xinjiang (Sinkiang) are one of the fifty-five national minorities that now live within the borders of the People's Republic of China. The policy of the Chinese Communist Party toward Central Asia and Far East Social Change Nomads and Nomadism Collective / Community identity Orphans of Passage: The Uduk 1993 52' Film Directed by Bruce MacDonald . In 1987 Sudanese government forces attacked the Uduk of Southern Sudan, and 20-25000 Uduk fled. Since then they have criss-crossed the Sudanese/Ethiopian border 5 times. In the spring of 1992, 13000 North and Northeast Africa Refugees / Displaced populations War / Conflict / Reconciliation Religion / Belief / Faith Squatter Settlements / Homelessness The Basques of Santazi 1987 52' Film Directed by Leslie Woodhead . *In her book 'The Circle of Mountains' Sandra Ott provided a fascinating analysis of social reciprocity (...) The film highlights the village's contemporary dilemmas and thereby complements rather Western Europe Herding Social Change Rural Embera — the End of the Road 1971 52' Film Directed by Brian Moser . The way of life of the 10,000 Embera Indians who live in the Choco region of Colombia, South American, is threatened by the encroachments of Negro Libres (descendants of freed slaves) and by the South America Land Rights Indigenous peoples / First Nations peoples The Age of Reason 2004 87' Film Directed by David MacDougall . In this fifth and final film in the Doon School quintet, MacDougall focuses on the life of one student whom he discovers at the school. The film was made in parallel with 'The New Boys' and South Asia Children / Young people Education / Knowledge Transmission Informant-researcher relationship Daba - Portrait of a Na Shaman 1999 40' Film Directed by Hua Cai . After more than a quarter of a century without any form of religious ceremony, the Na, an ethnic group living on the Himalayan plateau, began openly practising their religion again in the early South-East Asia Education / Knowledge transmission Religion / Belief / Faith Shamans and Shamanism The Last of the Cuiva 1971 52' Film Directed by Brian Moser . The film focuses on recent changes in the culture and society of the Cuiva, hunters and gatherers in a remote forest region of south-eastern Colombia, brought about through contact with Colombian South America Social Change Race / Racism / Antiracism Land Rights Hunting / Gathering / Fishing Sherpas of Nepal 1977 52' Film Directed by Leslie Woodhead Pattie Winter . Thami is a village 12,000 feet up in the Himalayas in the Kingdom of Nepal. As the film's opening shots illustrate, in a type of filmic short-hand, Thami is composed of a patchwork of individual South Asia Tourism / Travel / Pilgrimage Labour Marriage Social Change Pride of Place - Observations of lives of girls at a Public School 1976 59' Film 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 England’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 The Dream of Maelen 2003 25' Film Directed by Eirik Sandberg . Arne Bakke Mælen lives alone on the small family farm he inherited on the edge of a fjord. The farm is no longer viable economically and, like many small farmers in Norway, he has not found a woman Scandinavia Art / Artists / Artisans Rural Agriculture / Farming The Lau of Malaita 1982 52' Film Directed by Leslie Woodhead . *Pierre Miranda and a team from Granada Television have made a fine film exploring the trouble realities of the people of the lagoon in the 1980s.* (B. Shore) This film focuses on the people of Melanesia Social Change Social Conflict Ritual Death Religion / Belief / Faith Writing Panare - Portrait of a Linguist on Fieldwork 1996 30' Film Directed by Paul Henley . Marie-Claude Muller is a linguist who has worked for many years with the Panare, an Amerindian people of Venezuelan Amazonia. She has now been commissioned by the government literacy programme to South America Linguistics / Language Education / Knowledge Transmission Some Women of Marrakech 1977 52' Film Directed by Melissa Llewelyn-Davies . In Marrakech, traditional attitudes to women prevail perhaps more strongly than in other Moroccan cities. This is especially true for those women who live by the standards of traditional ideals in North and Northeast Africa Gender Role and Identity Labour Dance / Theatre / Performance Social Norms Spear and Sword: a Payment of Bridewealth on the Island of Roti 1988 22' Film Directed by James J. Fox Timothy Asch Patsy Asch . The film begins as the groom’s side gathers the animals and money for a bridewealth payment, and discusses problems that might arise in negotiating the exchange. In ritual silence, they walk to the South-East Asia Ritual Marriage Family / Kinship Everything is Relatives - William Rivers (1864-1922) 1986 52' Film Directed by André Singer . Central Television’s major documentary series looks at the first anthropologists to stop ‘armchair theorising’ and go out to live among the peoples who so interested them. The six part series Various History of Anthropology Public Figure Off the Verandah - Bronislaw Malinowski (1884-1942) 1986 52' Film Directed by André Singer . Central Television’s major documentary series looks at the first anthropologists to stop ‘armchair theorising’ and go out to live among the peoples who so interested them. The six part series Various History of Anthropology Public Figure Scenes of Afghan Music: London, Kabul, Hamburg, Dublin 2007 97' Film Directed by John Baily . Scenes of Afghan Music is Part IV of 'A Quartet of Afghan Music Films', made in the author’s personal “fieldwork movie” style. It reveals the diversity of music and dance practices in the Middle and Near East Music / Ethnomusicology Migration Collective / Community identity Scenes of Resistance 2000 30' Film Directed by Alejandra Navarro Smith . A series of portraits of life in a Zapatista indigenous community in Chiapas, Southern Mexico. This film invites us into the people's everyday lives, and presents their own views of the fight against Central America Resistance Indigenous peoples / First Nations peoples Heart of the Village 1985 52' Film Directed by Toni de Bromhead . The second film of the Caught in the Web trilogy, which compares and contrast aspects of life in a Dorset community in the Bride Valley and a French village in Provence, Villes-sur-Auzon, Western Europe British-Irish Isles Rural Socioeconomic conditions Dervishes of Kurdistan 1973 52' Film Directed by Brian Moser . A community of Kurds resident in Iran on the border with Iraq forms the subject of this film. Many of the inhabitants of the community are refugees from Kurdish areas of Iraq and the villagers are Middle and Near East Refugees / Displaced populations Religion / Belief / Faith The Kirghiz of Afghanistan 1975 51' Film Directed by Charlie Nairn André Singer . The Kirghiz of Afghanistan are a group of some 2,000 pastoralists living on a bleak mountain plateau in a narrow isthmus of land between the borders of the Soviet Union and China. For nine months of Middle and Near East Herding Nomads and Nomadism Social Organisation Paani: of women and water 2018 22' Film 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 In the Light of Memory 2010 40' Film Directed by Alyssa Grossman . 'In the Light of Memory' explores evocations of memory in contemporary post-socialist Bucharest, nearly twenty years after the fall of Romanian communism. The film is shot in Cismigiu Gardens, one of South-East Europe Memory Post-communism The Guardian of the Forces 1991 52' Film Directed by Anne Laure Folly . 'The Guardian of the Forces' introduces the viewer to the world of Sikavi, a ‘fetish priest’ in Lome, Togo. He controls the spirits of several voodoos or gods. The film explores the significance West Africa Health / Health care / Healing Possession Ritual Land of Udehe 2015 26' Film 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 Women of a Divided Land 1997 22' Film Directed by Joanna Hill . This film follows the activities of Israeli and Palestinian women peace activists in Jerusalem and the West Bank, portraying both the collective and individual experiences of resistance. Middle and Near East Resistance Political Activists Religion / Belief / Faith The Albanians of Rrogam 1991 52' Film Directed by David Wason . With the fall of the Stalinist regime in Albania, one of the poorest countries in Europe, the people of a remote mountain village, Rrogam, are faced with the dilmma of how to re-allocate the land and South-East Europe Post-communism Social Change Land Rights Rural Men of Words 2009 22' Film Directed by Johanne Haaber Ihle . The film explores how ancient traditions of poetry are still used in contemporary Yemen to discuss social and political problems. Middle and Near East Art / Artists / Artisans Socioeconomic conditions The Villagers of Sierra de Gredos 1989 52' Film Directed by Peter Carr . The 130 villagers of Navalguijo in the Sierra de Gredos of Central Spain live in a village perched high in the mountains and they face an extreme climate with very cold winters and hot summers. The Western Mediterranean Herding Rural Collective / Community identity Journey of the Maggot Feeder 2015 68' Film Directed by Liivo Niglas Priit Tender . This film tries to solve the mystery of a bizarre Arctic fairy tale. Priit Tender, an Estonian animator, makes a film about an old Chukchi legend – The Maggot Feeder. The unconventional narrative Central Asia and Far East Animation Film / Photography / Mass media Myths / Fairy tales A Celebration of Origins: Wai Brama, Flores, Indonesia 1992 45' Film Directed by Timothy Asch Patsy Asch . This film is a record of the gren mahe rituals of the people of the domain of Wai Brama. The gren mahe is the largest religious event of the Wai Brama ceremonial system and requires the participation South-East Asia Ritual Religion / Belief / Faith In Search of Cool Ground: The Mursi Trilogy 1987 52' Film Directed by Leslie Woodhead . This is a trilogy about aspects of the culture of two groups of people, the Kwegu and the Mursi, in Ethiopia. The titles are: THE MURSI , THE KWEGU, THE MIGRANTS *What made this trilogy special North America Social Change Socioeconomic conditions Health / Health care / Healing The Whale Hunters of Lamalera 1988 52' Film Directed by John Blake David Wason . The Whale Hunters of Lamalera was filmed over a period of four weeks during June 1987. Lamalera is a village which is perched on the rocky slopes of an active volcano on the southern coast of the South-East Asia Hunting / Gathering / Fishing Animals Everyday Life The Women Weavers of Assam 2019 98' Film Special Interest Directed by Aparna Sharma . The Women Weavers of Assam focuses on the craft, labour and the everyday lives of a group of women weavers in India’s northeastern state of Assam. The weavers belong to a non-profit collective South Asia Art / Artists / Artisans Gender Role and identity Material Culture The Art of Regret 2007 60' Film Directed by Judith MacDougall . Photography is known in China as the “Art of Regret”. In the rapidly changing city of Kunming, people are ambivalent about whether they want photography to be a medium of preservation and South-East Asia Material Culture Film / Photography / Mass media The Log Rafters of Lake Aegeri 2016 29' Film Material Culture Directed by Thomas Horat . Aegeri, in a remote part of Switzerland, is one of the few lakes in Central Europe where professional log rafters can still be found. This film is based on the gentle observation of the work of a Western Europe Material Culture Labour Rural The Water of Words: a cultural ecology of a small island in Eastern Indonesia 1983 30' Film Directed by J. Fox Timothy Asch Patsy Asch . This film examines the ecology and poetry of everyday life. Two Rotinese narrate this film, each offering his perception of the importance of the Lontar (Borassus) palm: a clan leader describes the South-East Asia Archaeobotany / Ethnobotany Linguistics / Language Environment Small Man of the Forest 2004 37' Film Directed by Hugh Hartford . Murray Collins leaves his city life in search of a bipedal ape. On his journey to highland Sumatra, he meets an academic, three farmers, two conservationists and a shaman, all of whom advise him on South-East Asia Animals Socotra, the Island of Djinns 2016 64' Film RAI Basil Wright Directed by Jordi Esteva . The film is the story of a journey across the island of Socotra in the Indian Ocean, off the coast of Yemen. Socotra is isolated during the monsoon season, when it is impossible to land on it. This Middle and Near East Myths / Fairy tales Nomads and Nomadism Tourism / Travel / Pilgrimage Trade Kalanda - the Knowledge of the Bush 2014 62' Film Directed by Lorenzo Ferrarini . In some parts of West Africa, hunting is much more than killing animals. A donso is no common hunter, but a healer, a diviner, a ritual specialist and amulet maker. Kalanda is a unique initiatory West Africa Hunting / Gathering / Fishing Religion / Belief / Faith Education / Knowledge Transmission Ritual In a State of Dress 2010 21' Film Directed by Madelief de Heer . Filmed in Walcheren, a region in the south-west of the Netherlands, this film tells of the lived experience of wearing regional dress. Once worn by the whole community, today this complex attire is Western Europe Material Culture Elderly people Intergenerational relations Keepers of the Faith: The Buddhist Nuns of Saigang Hills 1996 51' Film Directed by Hiroko Kawanami . In the Saigang Hills, 12 miles from the ancient capital of Mandalay are hundreds of pagodas, stupas, monasteries and nunneries which form a focal point of worship for Buddhism in Burma. In 1986 the South-East Asia Religion / Belief / Faith Collective / Community identity The Mystery of the Frozen Tombs: A Young Lady Emerges From the Ice 1994 44' Film Directed by Francoise Levie . The film unfolds the archaeological discovery of the frozen tombs of Altai, part of the Scythian culture in the Siberian steppe. Central Asia and Far East Archaeology The Most Wasted of All Days 2003 24' Film Directed by Nick Kirkwood . A day without laughter is the most wasted of all days, according to veteran circus performer Jan Erik, a.k.a 'Fips the Clown'. So when his back goes in the middle of the summer tour round Scotland, British-Irish Isles Dance / Theatre / Performance Cakchiquel Maya of San Antonio Palopó 1987 52' Film Directed by Bruce MacDonald . The documentary shows how Cakchiquel Maya of a village on Lake Atitlan in Guatemala adapted to changes that took place in the decades before the film was made, when the lake became a favoured spot Central America Tourism / Travel / Pilgrimage Indigenous peoples / First Nations peoples The Secret of the Stone 2009 39' Film Directed by Zhifang Song Gary Seaman Steven Rousso-Schindler . Located on the North China Plain about 200 miles south of Beijing, 'Song Family Village' is home to about 1,300 people. Some 80% of all villagers are members of a single lineage of the Song surname. Central Asia and Far East Family / Kinship Collective / Community identity Ritual Festivals / Carnival The Trobriand Islanders of Papua New Guinea 1990 52' Film Directed by David Wason . The Trobriand Islands lie off the eastern tip of Papua New Guinea. The island society has a complex balance of male authority and female wealth. Magic spells and sorcery pervade everyday life. Melanesia Gender Role and Identity Festivals / Carnival Ritual Sangita Priya: Lover of Music 2007 30' Film Directed by Anne-Katrine Hansen . From temples to recording studios of Kochi, Kerala in South India, we follow four musicians -a student and his master, a professional and a promoter - all uniquely devoted to the music that permeates South Asia Music / Ethnomusicology Education / Knowledge transmission Doctors of Two Worlds 1989 55' Film Directed by Natasha Solomons . In the Bolivian highlands an English doctor is setting up a network of health care for remote mountain villages. While teaching the inhabitants the essentials of Western medicine the doctor is South America Health / Health care / Healing Informant-researcher relationship Development projects Cham in the Lepcha Village of Lingthem 2007 52' Film Directed by Dawa Tsering Lepcha . Every winter, over a period of six days, the lamas of Lingthem's village monastery hold their annual cham. These dramatic ritual masked dances impart elementary Buddhist teachings while providing South Asia Ritual Dance / Theatre / Performance Religion / Belief / Faith In the Play of Life: a wayang performance in East Java 1992 25' Film Directed by Patsy Asch . These companion films examine the philosophy and ritual practices of the followers of a holy man popularly known as Embah Wali. The movement, centred in Blitar, East Java, regards wayang as a model South-East Asia Ritual Religion / Belief / Faith Dance / Theatre / Performance Herat Films: The City of Herat 1983 21' Film Directed by John Baily . These videos were edited from seven hours of Super 8 film shot by John Baily during two years of ethnomusicological fieldwork carried out in the Herat region of western Afghanistan between 1973 and Middle and Near East Urban Trade The Longest Struggle: The Karen of Burma 1993 52' Film Directed by John Sheppard . In the forested hills of eastern Burma, a war has been going on for more than 50 years. A war that is rarely reported and is often apparently at a stalemate. For the Karen people of this part of South-East Asia War / Conflict / Reconciliation Memory In the Land of the War Canoes 1972 47' Film Directed by Edward S. Curtis . The film was made in 1914 by Edward Curtis. The plot concerns the efforts of a young man, Motana, son of a great chief, to obtain a bride and how he is thwarted by a wicked sorcerer. Many of the North America Archival material / Museum displays Marriage Film / Photography / Mass media Herat Films: The Shrines of Herat 1983 30' Film Directed by John Baily . These videos were edited from seven hours of Super 8 film shot by John Baily during two years of ethnomusicological fieldwork carried out in the Herat region of western Afghanistan between 1973 and Middle and Near East Religion / Belief / Faith Urban Return of the Nightingales 2013 33' Film Directed by John Baily . In 2010 Afghan musicologist Dr. Ahmad Sarmast opened the Afghanistan National Institute of Music (ANIM), a coeducational vocational music school in Kabul that teaches Afghan, Indian and Western South Asia Music / Ethnomusicology Education / Knowledge Transmission Children / Young people Mongolia, part 1: On the Edge of the Gobi 1975 52' Film Directed by Brian Moser . Mongolia is a country the size of Western Europe with under 1.5 million people but over 23 million head of livestock. This film concentrates on life in the great plains of Mongolia, at the foot of Central Asia and Far East Herding Social Change Rural Everyday Life A New Kind of Life 1997 28' Film Directed by Emma Farrell . How is someone’s life affected when faced with cancer? This film is a portrait of three people from Manchester, England, who have chosen to include complementary therapies as part of their daily coping strategies. British-Irish Isles Health / Health care / Healing Alternative culture A Month in the Life of Ephtim D. 1999 56' Film Directed by Antonii Dontchev . Ephtim D., 73 years old, is a retired postman. He lives in Sofia with his wife Ghinka in a three room suburban apartment. As a socialist he feels confused by the ‘crazy’ democracy and the South-East Europe Health / Health care / Healing Post-communism Socioeconomic conditions In Pursuit of Happiness 2009 31' Film Directed by Ray Ono . Tokyo life as rarely seen on mainstream media. This short film takes you to the lives of men who live on the outskirts of the city and of Japanese society. Central Asia and Far East Alternative culture Urban Squatter Settlements / Homelessness War of the Gods 1971 52' Film Directed by Brian Moser . While relying on a polemical stance directed against the cultural genocide wrought by missionaries, 'War of the Gods' also contains a wealth of information and detail about Amazonian Indian South America Religion / Belief / Faith Collective / Community identity Agriculture / Farming Hunting / Gathering / Fishing Herat Films: The Annual Cycle of Music in Herat 1983 54' Film Directed by John Baily . These videos were edited from seven hours of Super 8 film shot by John Baily during two years of ethnomusicological fieldwork carried out in the Herat region of western Afghanistan between 1973 and Middle and Near East Dance / Theatre / Performance Music / Ethnomusicology Jero Tapakan: Stories from the life of a Balinese Healer 1983 26' Film Directed by Timothy Asch Linda Connor Patsy Asch . Jero beings with an account of her family’s extreme poverty that culminated in her desire to leave her family and travel as a pedlar. She describes mystical experiences that led her to recognise South-East Asia Health / Health care / Healing Socioeconomic conditions The Legacy of Antonio Lorenzano 2000 46' Film Directed by Paul Henley . Antonio Lorenzano was an acclaimed musician, shamanic healer and craftsman, and the leader of the Warao community of Morichito on the Winikina River, in the lower Orinoco Delta, Venezuela. The film South America Death Public Figure Informant-researcher relationship Social Change Memory Sons of the Moon 1984 25' Film Directed by Frank Speed Deirdre LaPin . In isolated mountain hamlets in Nigeria’s Jos Plateau the Ngas have traditionally observed the movements of the moon in the night sky. The moon is a key symbol in Ngas cosmology, believed to West Africa Religion / Belief / Faith Music / Ethnomusicology Everyday Life Ritual In Search of the Hamat’sa: A Tale of Headhunting 2004 33' Film Directed by Aaron Glass . The Hamat’sa (or “Cannibal Dance”) is the most important—and highly represented ceremony of the Kwakwaka’wakw (Kwakiutl) people of British Columbia. This film traces the history of North America Archival material / Museum displays Dance / Theatre / Performance Ritual Informant-researcher relationship Indigenous peoples / First Nations peoples The Kayapo: Out of the Forest 1989 52' Film Directed by Michael Beckham . Early in 1989 the Kayapo rallied other Brazilian Indians to attend a reunification of the tribes at Altamira«the proposed site of a massive hydro-electric dam, that will flood large parts of the South America Land Rights Indigenous peoples / First Nations peoples Resistance Film / Photography / Mass media Political Activists Social Conflict The Kalasha: Rites of Spring 1990 60' Film Directed by John Sheppard . The Kalasha are a tribal people, 3,000 strong, who live in the high valleys of the Hindu Kush mountains in the North West Frontier Province of Pakistan. The Kalasha are unique as a pagan people in South Asia Festivals / Carnival Land Rights Agriculture / Farming Social Conflict Part of Us 2009 27' Film Directed by Maria Meriwether . For the Ngarrindjeri people, the living and the dead are connected through shared land and heritage. The preservation of this connection is at the heart of the community’s effort to repatriate the Australia Death Indigenous peoples / First Nations peoples Singing Pictures - Women Painters of Naya 2005 45' Film Directed by Lina Fruzzetti Ákos Östör . For generations the Patua (Chitrakara) communities of West Bengal have been painters and singers of stories depicted in scrolls. The film follows the daily lives of Muslim Patua women from Naya South Asia Material Culture Art / Artists / Artisans Music / Ethnomusicology Fatmawati's Wedding: the Weddings of two Sisters, the Preparations 1998 50' Film Directed by Fiona Kerlogue . This film records the preparations for the wedding of two sisters in eastern Sumatra in December 1996. There is an emphasis on the importance of the role of women in the village. Ritual exchanges South-East Asia Gender Role and Identity Marriage Ritual Material Culture The Guga Hunters of Ness 2010 59' Film Directed by Mike Day . This film follows a vanishing community’s beloved and unique tradition. The Gaelic speakers of Lewis and Scotland are the only people in the EU exempt from a ban on hunting gannets, but they are Western Europe Hunting / Gathering / Fishing Animals Ritual Virtual me: Gender and Identity in World of Warcraft 2013 11' Film Directed by Trent Monahan Sarah Prothero Jennifer Torson . 'Virtual Me' examines the experiences of players of the online game World of Warcraft, focusing specifically on their experience and understanding of issues surrounding gender and identity within North America Gender Role and Identity Animation Internet The Price of Memory 2014 83' Film Directed by Karen Marks Mafundikwa . In 2002, Queen Elizabeth II visited Jamaica for her Golden Julibee Celebrations. While there she was petitioned by a group of Rastafari for slavery reparations. For Rastafari, reparations are linked Caribbean Islands British-Irish Isles Colonialism / Postcolonialism Political Activists Confluences - Emerillon of French Guiana 2007 78' Film Directed by Perle Møhl . Like self-fulfilling prophecies, scientific reports have hitherto depicted the Emerillon of French Guiana as cultureless and doomed to disappear. With this film, an anthropologist proposes to defy South America Indigenous peoples / First Nations peoples Everyday Life Imbalu: Ritual of Manhood of the Gisu of Uganda 1988 69' Film Directed by Richard Hawkins . An insightful documentary, constructed with visual restraint, about the male circumcision ritual among the Gisu of Uganda. The narrative follows one male participant through the ritual and contrasts East Africa Ritual Gender Role and Identity Lady of the Lake 2014 22' Film Directed by Zaw Naing Oo . Governments – even decades-old military regimes – may come and go but, like many rural communities in Myanmar (formerly known as Burma), the lives of the villagers of Pyun Su on the banks of Moe South-East Asia Religion / Belief / Faith Rural The Absence of Apricots 2018 49' Film 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 Returning Home: Revival of a Bosnian Village 2001 48' Film Directed by Tone Bringa Peter Loizos . The film is the sequel to 'We are all Neighbours', the 1993 Granada Disappearing World film, about the breakdown of relations between Muslims and Croats as war overtakes their ethnically mixed South-East Europe War / Conflict / Reconciliation Collective / Community identity Refugees / Displaced populations Sons of Haji Omar 1978 58' Film Directed by Timothy Asch Asen Balikci David Newman Richard Sorensen . Haji Omar and his three sons belong to the Lakenkhel, a Pashtun tribal group in northeastern Afghanistan. Concentrating within one family, the film draw sharp, colourful portraits of the protagonists Middle and Near East Everyday Life Nomads and Nomadism Herding A Little Bit of Freedom 1998 34' Film Directed by Laura Kirk . This film is set in a traditional household in Nepal and documents a servant girl, Nani; a married woman, Sarita; and a mother-in-law, Ama. In interesting mixture of entrapment, duty and tradition unfold. South Asia Gender Role and Identity Intergenerational relations Marriage The Good Wife of Tokyo 1992 52' Film Directed by Kim Longinotto Clare Hunt . Kazuko Hohki goes back to Tokyo with her band, the ‘Frank Chickens’, after living in England for 15 years. This wry and delightful film records her re-experiencing of Japan after a long absence, Central Asia and Far East Music / Ethnomusicology Gender Role and Identity Marriage Social Change In Search of Home 2000 30' Film Directed by Julie Moggan . The Shabani family have been living in Manchester as refugees and are homesick for Kosovo. Feeling increasingly unwelcome in Britain, they return home to confront the nightmares of their recent past, South-East Europe Refugees / Displaced populations Children / Young people War / Conflict / Reconciliation One day in Agnita 2011 10' Film Directed by Michele Trentini . Every four years, the new recruits in Carano are presented to the community in the midst of a complex carnival ritual called Banderàl. This film is part of **Carnival King of Europe DVD 6 - South-East Europe Folklore Festivals / Carnival Once upon a time in Val di Fiemme 2009 23' Film Directed by Michele Trentini . Every four years, the new recruits in Carano are presented to the community in the midst of a complex carnival ritual called Banderàl. This film is part of **Carnival King of Europe DVD 6 - South-East Europe Folklore Festivals / Carnival Nodas. Launeddas at the time of crisis. 2015 29' Film Intangible Culture Directed by Umberto Cao Andrea Mura . Dating back 3000 years to the Nuragic civilisation on Sardinia, 'launeddas' are wind instruments that testify to contacts from across the Mediterranean. Although they nearly vanished in the 1960s, in Western Mediterranean Music / Ethnomusicology Festivals / Carnival Intergenerational relations Hundreds of Homes 1992 50' Film Directed by Heimo Lappalainen . Taiga Nomads is a film series about the Evenki (previously the Tungus), a nomadic people scattered all over eastern Siberia, and living under harsh conditions in the taiga, an area predominated by Central Asia and Far East Nomads and Nomadism Animals Out of Focus 2013 37' Film Directed by Adrian Arcé Antonio Zirión . This is a collaborative documentary about arts, culture and everyday life inside a prison for minors. It was shot during a photography and video workshop with young inmates at the Juvenile Community Central America Children / Young people Prison Art / Artists / Artisans Reflexivity One day in Rukavac 2008 11' Film Directed by Michele Trentini . Zvonča in Croatian means “bell” and the Istrian Zvončari are the popular carnival heralds who undertake some challenging walkabouts between neighbouring villages every year - Croatia. This South-East Europe Festivals / Carnival Folklore Kanraxël: the Confluence of Agnack 2015 52' Film 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 Mabo: Life of an Island Man 1997 87' Film Directed by Trevor Graham . On June 3rd 1992, six months after Eddie ‘Koiki’ Mabo’s tragic death, the High Court upheld his claim that Murray Islanders held native title to land in the Torres Strait. The legal fiction Australia Public Figure Colonialism / Postcolonialism Life Story / Life History Political Activists Land Rights Law and Legislation / Bureaucracy Southeast London Ethnography - Three Student Films: Anglesea Road; The Good Ol' Days; Talk of Trade 2007 13' Film Directed by Elhum Shakerifar Ed Owles Jamie Taylor . These 3 films on Southeast London were made by GCC college students who took a course in anthropology & film. ANGLESEA ROAD: Situated in Woolwich, South East London, Anglesea Road is a small British-Irish Isles Urban Cannibalism 1999 60' Film Directed by André Singer Tom Sheahan . The history of cannibalism around the world and its role in different culture, from ancient Britain to Papua New Guinea. The Forbidden Rites trilogy explores cannibalism, head hunting and human Various Ritual Archival material / Museum displays History of Anthropology Head Hunting 1999 60' Film Directed by André Singer . The history of human decapitation, featuring the story of two British engineers beheaded by rebels in modern Russia and the psychological and religious implications of contemporary headhunting in Various Ritual History of Anthropology Firth on Firth 1993 49' Film Directed by Rolf Husmann Peter Loizos Werner Sperscheinder . In a series of interviews in his London home and the London School of Economics, Sir Raymond Firth talks about his life and some of his personal views. The film focuses thus on his Maori studies, British-Irish Isles History of Anthropology Public Figure The Red Bowmen 1981 50' Film Directed by Chris Owen . In a remote part of the West Sepik Province of Papua New Guinea, the Umeda people eke out a difficult living from the sago swamps and primary rain forest that surround them. Until recently, these Melanesia Ritual Religion / Belief / Faith History of Anthropology Matai Samoa 1989 65' Film Directed by George Milner . The film is a valuable treatment of archival footage that George Milner shot while conducting fieldwork in 1955 and 1959. The footage (18 minutes of the total film) focuses on the traditional Samoan New Zealand and Polynesia History of Anthropology Film / Photography / Mass media Social Organisation Archival material / Museum displays Ritual The Ethnographer 2012 86' Film Directed by Ulises Rosell . John Palmer arrived in a Wichí community, located in Argentina, thirty years ago as an anthropologist - today he has married a Wichí woman with whom he has five sons in the last 5 years, who babble South America History of Anthropology Everyday Life Informant-researcher relationship Fieldwork - Sir Walter Baldwin Spencer (1860-1929) 1986 52' Film Directed by André Singer . Central Television’s major documentary series looks at the first anthropologists to stop ‘armchair theorising’ and go out to live among the peoples who so interested them. The six part series Various History of Anthropology Strange Beliefs - Sir Edward Evans-Pritchard (1902-1973) 1986 52' Film Directed by André Singer . Central Television’s major documentary series looks at the first anthropologists to stop ‘armchair theorising’ and go out to live among the peoples who so interested them. The six part series Various History of Anthropology Public Figure Human Sacrifice 1999 60' Film Directed by André Singer . The documentary gives insight into the ancient rituals and religious practices involved in human sacrifice. The Forbidden Rites trilogy explores cannibalism, head hunting and human sacrifice. This Various Ritual History of Anthropology Caroling with the Star among the Bersntoler 2015 26' Film 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 One day in Lancova Vas 2010 9' Film Directed by Michele Trentini . In eastern Slovenia, an assorted party of masked ploughmen run around each village on Carnival days. In the Slovenian-speaking Italian Benecija, the Blùmari run across the village fields once a South-East Europe Festivals / Carnival Folklore Dancing Grass. Harvesting teff in the Tigrean highlands 2018 40' Film Directed by Mitiku Gabrehiwot . Dancing Grass is a film in the Guardians of Productive Landscapes series (editor Ivo Strecker). It captures the communal harvesting of teff among Tigreans of Northern Ethiopia. Teff, an ancient North and Northeast Africa Agriculture / Farming Food / Water The Migrants 1985 52' Film Directed by Leslie Woodhead David Wason . The Migrants is the third film in the trilogy 'In Search of Cool Ground' for Granada Television's Disappearing World series. It is about a drought-induced migration of Mursi from their traditional North and Northeast Africa Social Change Collective / Community identity Refugees / Displaced populations The Kwegu 1979 52' Film Directed by Leslie Woodhead Andy Harries . *'The Kwegu' is an entirely tasteful and dignified presentation of the harsh realities of subsistence living, and it may help us understand how, even in stateless societies, dominated groups come to North and Northeast Africa Collective / Community identity Agriculture / Farming Social Organisation Marriage Trade Breaking the Yard 2018 21' Film 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 Horror in the Andes 2019 33' Film Special Interest Directed by Martha-Cecilia Dietrich . Horror in the Andes is a behind-the-scenes documentary that follows the process of making a horror movie in Ayacucho, Peru. Directed by audio-visual anthropologist Martha-Cecilia Dietrich, it South America Art / Artists / Artisans Dance / Theatre / Performance Ethnofiction Film / Photography / Mass media Indigenous peoples / First Nations peoples Travel 2016 63' Film Special Interest Directed by Nick Mai . (This version of the film is edited using a single screen. For the split screen version see 'Travel - double screen version'). Joy left Nigeria to help her family after her father’s death. She Western Europe Sex / Sexuality Labour Migration Ethnofiction Informant-researcher relationship Reflexivity Travel (double screen) 2016 63' Film Directed by Nick Mai . (This version of the film uses a split-screen device throughout. For the single screen version see 'Travel'). Joy left Nigeria to help her family after her father’s death. She knew that she was Western Europe Sex / Sexuality Labour Migration Ethnofiction Reflexivity Atieno 2018 64' Film Directed by June Ndinya Effie Awino Ruth Njoki Lavine Atieno Dorcas Akin . Atieno is a collaborative fiction film scripted, acted and directed by DreamGirls, a group of adolescent girls and young women from Nairobi and Kisumu. The film tells of Atieno, a 16 year old girl East Africa Health / Healthcare / Healing Children / Young people Gender Role and Identity Ethnofiction Dance / Theatre / Performance Participatory / Collaborative methods Sex / Sexuality IT WAS TOMORROW 2018 53' Film 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 Out of Place 1993 38' Film Directed by Peter Lutz . The war in Bosnia in the early 1990s drove Nerma and Mavis from their homes. Having found refuge in Sweden, they learn to cope with a new situation. Scandinavia Refugees / Displaced populations War / Conflict / Reconciliation A Transfer of Power 1986 22' Film Directed by Judith MacDougall David MacDougall . Replacing the engine in an old car is a familiar rural task, but how people go about it differs. For these Aboriginal men in New South Wales, it’s an occasion for affirming continuing Australia Indigenous peoples / First Nations peoples Education / Knowledge transmission Infrastructure / Transport One day in Chelnik 2008 14' Film Directed by Michele Trentini . On the day of the Kukeri, mysterious, impenetrable masks visit every house in Bulgarian Thrace, and end up in the village square for a most persuasive wedding and ploughing ritual. This film is South-East Europe Festivals / Carnival Folklore Abraham and Sarah II. Hosting the Gundagundo Pilgrims 2019 41' Film Directed by Tesfahun Haddis . The film is part of the Guardians of Productive Landscapes series and a sequel to 'Abraham and Sarah I: Creators of a productive landscape'. A Tigrean farmer and his wife, who host pilgrims to a North and Northeast Africa Agriculture / Farming Food / Water Tourism / Travel / Pilgrimage For The Love of the Game 2010 24' Film Directed by Birgitta H. Anttila . Hurling is a game combining skill, speed and strength. Players - even at the highest levels - are amateurs, but still spend hours on training. Through the encounter with hurler Shane Dooley, we learn British-Irish Isles Sport A good day in Sharnford. God Speed the Plough! 2010 14' Film Directed by Michele Trentini . In the heart of Ye Olde England, the first Monday after the Epiphany is still “Plough Monday”, with the ritual parading of a decorated plough and the Morris Dance. This film is part of British-Irish Isles Festivals / Carnival Folklore Coraggio coscritti: take heart, all new recruits! 2016 25' Film 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 Sweeping Evil Away in Rauris 2017 9' Film Directed by Michele Trentini . The Schnabelperchten of Rauris in the Salzburger Alps are mysterious, spiteful figures who appear out of nowhere with their brooms, and go round every house to perform a simple and effective Central Europe Folklore Festivals / Carnival St. Nicholas’ Night in Val di Fassa 2010 15' Film Directed by Michele Trentini . As an early harbinger of celestial light, St. Nicholas and his mixed company of angels and devils visits every home, to tell children off in the most persuasive of manners. This film is part of South-East Europe Festivals / Carnival Folklore A Women’s Carnival in Tyrol 2017 9' Film Directed by Michele Trentini . Patsch is only place in the whole of Tyrol, where a company of women takes on the lead role of the Carnival parade. This film is part of **Carnival King of Europe DVD 5 PARADING THE VILLAGE**. On Central Europe Festivals / Carnival Folklore St. Anthony Bonfires in Mamoiada 2014 17' Film Directed by Michele Trentini . St. Anthony’s Day marks the first annual outing of the celebrated Sardinian Mamuthones with their blackened shepherd’s outfit, carefully directed by their eternal antagonists, the Issohadores. South-East Europe Festivals / Carnival Folklore One day in Begnishte 2008 7' Film Directed by Michele Trentini . The Orthodox New Year’s Eve is marked by the appearance of the Djolomari, the “old ones”, for a long day of ritual, which is both structured and frenetic. This film is part of **Carnival South-East Europe Folklore Festivals / Carnival Fiddling away Carnival in Caffaro 2017 12' Film Directed by Michele Trentini . Bagolino and Ponte Caffaro host the largest surviving ensemble of folk violin in the Alps, which makes Carnival a leap back into the Renaissance roots of the violin itself. This film is part of South-East Europe Folklore Festivals / Carnival St. Martin’s Bonfires in Predazzo 2010 10' Film Directed by Michele Trentini . On November 11th, great bonfires are lit by the local youth to celebrate the distribution of the annual revenues from the forestry harvest. This film is part of **Carnival King of Europe DVD 3 - South-East Europe Festivals / Carnival Folklore The Gnaga 2017 8' Film Directed by Michele Trentini . The Gnaga is an old hag, carrying her drunk husband back home in a pannier. This film is part of Carnival King of Europe DVD 5 PARADING THE VILLAGE. On Carnival days, the village is brought back South-East Europe Festivals / Carnival Folklore Speeding the Plough in Stilfs 2015 22' Film Directed by Michele Trentini . In Upper Vinschgau in South Tyrol a highly charged Carnival parade takes place with the specific purpose of “speeding the plough”. This film is part of **Carnival King of Europe DVD 4 SPEEDING South-East Europe Festivals / Carnival Folklore The Sacred Thresh 2016 18' Film Directed by Michele Trentini . After ploughing and sowing, there follows harvesting and threshing, with a very dignified threshing squad ritually touring the village inns. This film is part of **Carnival King of Europe DVD 4 Central Europe Festivals / Carnival Folklore The Mursi 1974 52' Film Directed by Leslie Woodhead . The Mursi, an unadministered tribe living in remote south-west Ethiopia, are a cattle-keeping and agricultural group without chiefs or leaders. This film, made under extremely difficult conditions, North and Northeast Africa War / Conflict / Reconciliation Social Organisation Tabom in Bahia 2017 52' Film Directed by Juan Diego Diaz Nilton Pereira . There is a small community in Ghana who identify as Brazilians. Their name is the Tabom. They are the descendants of former enslaved Africans and creoles who resettled from Bahia to Ghana during the South America West Africa Music / Ethnomusicology Collective / Community identity Memory Migration Popular Culture Race / Racism / Antiracism Tourism / Travel / Pilgrimage Talking to Each Other 1985 52' Film Directed by Toni de Bromhead . The third film of the **Caught in the Web** trilogy, which compares and contrast aspects of life in a Dorset community in the Bride Valley and a French village in Provence, Villes-sur-Auzon, Western Europe British-Irish Isles Rural Socioeconomic conditions Breaking the Chains 2015 64' Film 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 Milking the Desert 2004 25' Film Directed by Yasmin Fedda . This film follows the lives and choices of two monks living at Mar Musa, the Abyssinian Monastery in the desert of Syria. Through their daily lives, the issue of dialogue with Islam emerges. Middle and Near East Inter-religious relations Religion / Belief / Faith Copperworking in Santa Clara del Cobra, Michoacán, Mexico - Artisans Facing Change 2001 52' Film Directed by Beate Engelbrecht . Santa Clara del Cobre, a village in Mexico's province Michoacán, is well-known for its copperwork, a craft originating from pre-Spanish times. In the late 1940s the people of Santa Clara tried to Central America Material Culture Labour Art / Artists / Artisans Transfiction 2007 58' Film Directed by Johannes Sjøberg . Transfiction explores 'ethnofiction' - an experimental ethnographic documentary film style in which the participants collaborate with the filmmaker to act out their own and others' life experiences South America Reflexivity Film / Photography / Mass media Gender Role and Identity Sex / Sexuality LGBTQI* Ethnofiction Street Fiction 2002 32' Film Directed by Dominic Elliot . Through combining their own dramatic reconstructions and real life observation, this film tells the story of children who run away from their homes in search of a better life on the streets of Blantyre, Malawi. Southern Africa Urban Squatter Settlements / Homelessness Children / Young people Ethnofiction Mirror Mirror 2006 58' Film Directed by Zemirah Moffat . Mirror Mirror is based on an audio-visual ethnography of London’s queer Club Wotever. Begun in the autumn of 2003, it promoted itself as a club that welcomed all genders and sexualities – a British-Irish Isles LGBTQI* Sex / Sexuality Gender Role and Identity Yanomami: From Machetes to Mobile Phones 2012 58' Film Directed by Cliff Orloff and Olga Shalygin . The Yanomami Indians are one of the last large relatively unacculturated indigenous groups remaining in the world. In November 2000 filmmakers Orloff and Shalygin documented the lives of a small South America Indigenous peoples / First Nations peoples Material Culture Social Change Good-bye Old Man 1977 70' Film Directed by David MacDougall . A last request of a Tiwi man on Melville Island was that a film be made of the pukumani (bereavment) ceremony to follow his death. The film follows his family, from the days of preparation to their Australia Indigenous peoples / First Nations peoples Death Elderly people Film / Photography / Mass media Ritual Garden Days: Village in Papua New Guinea 1988 25' Film Directed by Ariane Lewis Jon Jerstad . A detailed account of domestic life in the Sepik area of Papua New Guinea, mainly from the women’s point of view. It describes their everyday activities in the ‘gardens’ in order to produce Melanesia Agriculture / Farming Children / Young people Ritual The Last Navigator 1989 50' Film Directed by André Singer . This is the story of two cultures and two technologies. An American navigator is taught the skills of navigation by a traditional Micronesian navigator on Satawal island. The American tries to Micronesia Tourism / Travel / Pilgrimage Infrastructure / Transport Education / Knowledge Transmission Living with Boko Haram 2016 37' Film Special Interest Directed by Trond Waage . January 2015. Boko Haram's violent insurgency is approaching Mogdé, on the Nigerian/Cameroonian border, where Antoniette lives. Just outside Oslo, Norway, lives her son Vakote, worried and afraid West Africa Scandinavia Religion / Belief / Faith Social Conflict War / Conflict / Reconciliation Migration Together as One 2013 39' Film Directed by Kilian Lamtur Tanlaka . Nso' is the biggest kingdom of the Western Grassfields and an ethnic group in the northeast corner of Cameroon’s northwest region. Its capital Kumbo is where the ruler (Fon) lives. The Nso' Central Africa Archaeobotany / Ethnobotany Collective / Community identity Inter-religious relations The Ragged Ones 2002 30' Film Directed by David Griggs . The Basotho live in Lesotho, a kingdom of high mountains surrounded by South Africa. Afflicted by famine, poverty and AIDS, they carry on making a science out of their witchcraft beliefs. Southern Africa Religion / Belief / Faith Socioeconomic conditions Men at Work 2010 32' Film Directed by Christine Moderbacher . "Men at Work" depicts the daily working life of one of the few remaining institutions in Austria that still employs only men. They are responsible for a 39 km stretch of Austria's biggest Central Europe Gender Role and Identity Labour Mangrove Music 2006 49' Film Directed by Carlo A. Cubero . The Caribbean island of Culebra is located between Spanish speaking Puerto Rico and English speaking Virgin Islands. Musicians from the island are inspired from a variety of regional, national and Central America Music / Ethnomusicology Smoke 1991 28' Film RAI Basil Wright Directed by Maarten Rens . The film deals with fish smoking in Monnickendam, a small town twelve miles north of Amsterdam. Using archival footage, interviewing old fishermen, and contrasting the traditional and the modern Western Europe Hunting / Gathering / Fishing Food Archival material / Museum displays The Block 2016 60' Film 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 The City Beautiful 2003 78' Film Directed by Rahul Roy . Sunder Nagri (Beautiful City) is a small working class colony on the margins of India’s capital city, Delhi. Most families residing here come from a community of weavers. The last ten years have South Asia Urban Labour Socioeconomic conditions When Four Friends Meet 2000 43' Film Directed by Rahul Roy . Bunty, Kamal, Sanjay and Sanju, best of friends and residents of Jehangiripuri, a working class colony on the outskirts of Delhi are young and trying to make their lives in an environment which is South Asia Gender Role and Identity Children / Young people Urban Collum Calling Canberra 1983 59' Film Directed by David MacDougall Judith MacDougall . An account of Aboriginal people steering their way through the often frustrating processes of official decision-making, as it is seen from their viewpoint far away from Canberra. Gordon Smith, head Australia Law and Legislation / Bureaucracy Indigenous peoples / First Nations peoples Nawi 1970 20' Film Directed by David MacDougall Judith MacDougall . This classic ethnographic documentary, by the renowned filmmaking team of David and Judith MacDougall, explores the nomadic life of the Jie of Uganda. During the dry season the Jie leave their East Africa Herding Music / Ethnomusicology Nomads and Nomadism Duka's Dilemma 2001 87' Film Directed by Jean Lydall Kaira Strecker . Filmmaker and anthropologist Jean Lydall has been making films with the Hamar community of southern Ethiopia since the 1970s. In 2001 she returned with her daughter and grandson to follow the North and Northeast Africa Family / Kinship Marriage Gender Role and Identity Under the Palace Wall 2013 53' Film Directed by David MacDougall . From the 16th century the Indian village of Delwara in southern Rajasthan was ruled as a principality of the kingdom of Mewar. Its palace, which overlooks the village, is now a luxury hotel - a South Asia Education / Knowledge transmission Children / Young people Tourism / Travel / Pilgrimage Cinema Pedregal 1994 27' Film 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 The Second Red Line 2004 25' Film Directed by Veera Lehto . In HIV testing, the second red line is the indication of a positive result. This film follows two volunteers working with HIV & Aids sufferers in the Buduburam Refugee Camp in Ghana. In the South-East Asia Health / Health care / Healing Development projects Benin Kingship Rituals 1963 20' Film Directed by Frank Speed Ray Bradbury . Until it was conquered by the British in 1897, the city of Benin, in what is now Nigeria, was the centre of a powerful kingdom. Its rulers, the Obas of Benin, were mysterious, secluded figures who West Africa Ritual Dance / Theatre / Performance History Messages by Music - Senegal in Transition 2013 76' Film Directed by Cornelia Strasse . The traditional musicians in Senegal were in charge of retaining the history of their ethnic group, along with ways of thinking and behaving. Their aim was to conserve the society. Nowadays the East Africa Music / Ethnomusicology Colonialism / Postcolonialism Social Change Political Activists Resistance Polka 1986 50' Film Directed by Robert Boonzajer-Flaes . The film confronts the accordion music of Chicano immigrants in southern Texas with the traditional music of accordion players in Austria. Without making any final judgements on the ‘roots’ of North America Music / Ethnomusicology Collective / Community identity Sundanese Culture Alive 1988 46' Film Directed by Jean Hellwig . Jaipongan is a new style of music and dancing which was ‘invented’ about a decade ago on Western Java, Indonesia. Drawing on more classical Javanese music and taking elements from Japanese and South-East Asia Music / Ethnomusicology Dance / Theatre / Performance A Clearing in the Jungle 1970 52' Film Directed by Charlie Nairn . Like that of many other Indian groups in South America, the culture of the Panare Indians of Venezuela is threatened by their almost daily contact with neighbouring creoles, Spanish-speaking South America Hunting / Gathering / Fishing Informant-researcher relationship Indigenous peoples / First Nations peoples Winter Days 2013 59' Film Directed by Anna Grimshaw . "Winter Days" evokes the stillness and quietness of the forest in winter. Life is lived close to the stove. It’s a time for small tasks and chores – making a wedge, sewing a pocket, the North America Alternative culture Rural Everyday Life Art / Artists / Artisans Ever The Land 2015 93' Film Material Culture Directed by Sarah Grohnert . This film explores the bond between people and their land through a landmark architectural undertaking by one of New Zealand’s most passionately independent Maori tribes, Ngāi Tūhoe. For the past Black Mountain 2008 84' Film Directed by Charlotte Whitby-Coles Amin Hajee . A once unremarkable site of multi-faith pilgrimage to a Sufi Saint has been transformed and its local history rewritten - the film documents the journey of Charlotte, a student undertaking her PhD South Asia Religion / Belief / Faith Tourism / Travel / Pilgrimage Inter-religious relations At Low Tide 2016 63' Film Directed by Anna Grimshaw . Every day, carrying the simplest of tools, diggers across coastal Maine set out at low tide to dig for clams on the wide mud flats that stretch far into the bay. It is backbreaking work. But it has North America Material Culture Labour Hunting / Gathering / Fishing Steel Lives 2005 45' Film Directed by Massimiliano Mollona . The anthropologist spent several months working as unskilled labourer alongside Sheffield steelworkers at Morris for his PhD. This film is a look into the working lives of men who earn a living in British-Irish Isles Labour Socioeconomic conditions Collective / Community identity Tigers Apprentice 1998 57' Film Directed by M. Trinh Nguyen . Tiger's Apprentice is the story of M. Trinh Nguyen's journey to her native Vietnam. She observes and documents her great-uncle's folk medicine practices treating many patients and making his South-East Asia Health / Health care / Healing Archaeobotany / Ethnobotany Vasile Nedea 2009 43' Film Directed by Sjoerd van Grootheest . The film tells the story of Vasile Nedea, a Romanian gypsy musician an Amsterdam. Due to his former illegal status there have been times in which he was forced to show his skills whilst busking the Western Europe Travellers / Roma Music / Ethnomusicology In Our Blood 2003 26' Film Directed by Steve Vella . In Malta, devotion to the Virgin Mary is very fervent, particularly in the village of Naxxar, where the most important annual feast, taking place over several days, is dedicated to her honour. But Western Mediterranean Religion / Belief / Faith Ritual Uncle Poison 1998 60' Film Directed by Ricardo Leizaola . Filmed in the city of Caracas, capital of Venezuela, Uncle Poison is an intimate portrait of a traditional faith healer, set against the backdrop of his community’s Easter celebrations. Every day, South America Health / Health care / Healing Religion / Belief / Faith Archaeobotany / Ethnobotany Sisters in Law 2005 104' Film Directed by Kim Longinotto Florence Ayisi . Six year old Manka has run away from home, fleeing her abusive aunt. Sonita has daringly accused her neighbor of rape. Amina has decided to end her brutal marriage by taking her husband to court. Set West Africa Law and Legislation / Bureaucracy Gender Role and Identity Children / Young people The Gaijin 2008 24' Film Directed by Chris Christodoulou . ‘The Gaijin’ tells the story of an individual negotiating his identity in a foreign country. It follows Luke Jonathan Driscoll, an American who has been residing in Japan for nearly 3 years and Central Asia and Far East Migration Fragments from the Past 2006 27' Film Directed by Vedide Kaymak Hakan Demiralay . In the days before DVD and satellite television, the cinema was important to London’s Turkish speaking population as a place to meet and as a link with home. Eight individuals recount their British-Irish Isles Popular Culture Migration Film / Photography / Mass media Standing Places 2007 31' Film Directed by Ana Tovey . A model of Stonehenge has been built in rural New Zealand, functioning like the original not only in its astronomical alignment but also in its role as a ceremonial site. The film explores what New Zealand and Polynesia Alternative culture Ritual The Storyteller 1990 50' Film 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 Why is Mr W. Laughing? 2017 76' Film Directed by Jana Papenbrook . Jana Papenbroock with Horst Wässle, Michael Gerdsmann, Bernhard Krebs WHY IS MR W. LAUGHING? is a portrait of three members of a community of artists with different disabilities. Rather than Western Europe Art / Artists / Artisans Collective / Community identity Elderly people Health / Health care / Healing Life Story / Life History Personal Narrative Social participation Boya Boya (Shine Shine) 2014 18' Film Directed by Karen Boswall Ruba Al Akash . A portrait of Syrian refugee Mohammed, a 12-year-old shoe shine boy, 'Boya Boya (Shine Shine)' looks at the reality of the growing population of urban refugees from a child's point of view. While Middle and Near East Children / Young people Refugees / Displaced populations Labour Takeover 1980 90' Film Directed by David MacDougall Judith MacDougall . On March 13, 1978 the Queensland Government announced its intention to take over management of Aurukun Aboriginal Reserve from the Uniting Church. The people of Aurukun complained bitterly, fearing Australia Indigenous peoples / First Nations peoples Resistance Land Rights Social Conflict Vendemos Recuerdos 2009 25' Film Directed by Carolina Corral Paredes . Carlos is an enthusiastic tour guide and Doña Rosa is an indigenous old woman that sells crafts in the market. Both of their life’s works are an effort to provide what inquisitive tourists might Central America Tourism / Travel / Pilgrimage Trade SchoolScapes 2007 77' Film Directed by David MacDougall . Inspired by the cinema of Lumière and the ideas of the 20th century Indian thinker Jiddu Krishnamurti, David MacDougall follows up the Doon School Quintet, his series of films about a traditional South Asia Children / Young people Education / Knowledge transmission Film / Photography / Mass media Tiempo de Vals 2006 22' Film Directed by Rebecca Savage . The ‘Quinceañera’ celebration is a lived illusion. A daydream shared by the whole community of Tetlanohcan, a rapidly urbanising agricultural town in Tlaxcala, Central Mexico. The dream is Central America Festivals / Carnival Social Change The Tuareg 1972 52' Film Directed by Charlie Nairn . This film is about a group of nomadic Tuareg living high up in the Hoggar Mountains near Tamanrasset in Algeria. The main focus of the film is the collapse of the former economic basis of their North and Northeast Africa Social Organisation Social Change Socioeconomic conditions Nomads and Nomadism Delhi at Eleven 2013 82' Film Directed by Ravi Shivhare Anshu Singh Kumar Kashyap Shikha Kumar . This film presents the work of four young filmmakers of New Delhi. From March to May 2012 they took part in a video workshop at the CIE Experimental Basic School, a government primary school. Each of South Asia Film / Photography / Mass media Children / Young people Education / Knowledge Transmission The Newest Revolution 1983 52' Film Directed by Leslie Woodhead Claire Lasko . This film is a continuation of 'Living with the Revolution', set in the same communes near Wuxi and focusing on the same families. This film concentrates, however, on the new social and economic Central Asia and Far East Family / Kinship Social Change Playing with Nan 2012 88' Film Directed by Dipesh Kharel Asami Saito . Playing with Nan is the story of a Nepali young man who migrated to work in a Nepali restaurant in northern Japan. The film explores his daily life at work and his family at home, which reflects South Asia Central Asia and Far East Labour Migration Socioeconomic conditions Namatjira Project 2017 87' Film Directed by Sera Davies . An extraordinary first-hand account of the international battle to reclaim the artwork and heritage of one of Australia’s most important Indigenous figures: Albert Namatjira. Albert Namatjira was Australia Art / Artists / Artisans Collective / Community identity Colonialism / Postcolonialism Indigenous peoples / First Nations peoples Law and Legislation / Bureaucracy Political Activists Race / Racism / Antiracism Sea Boundary 2012 55' Film Directed by Rosella Schillaci . The film depicts the daily struggle of fishermen to earn a living in a harsh physical environment that brings out the social and economic tensions of modern society. Manning the Priamo are Cola, the Western Mediterranean Labour Hunting / Gathering / Fishing Socioeconomic conditions Migration Kataragama: A God for All Seasons 1973 52' Film Directed by Charlie Nairn . In ever-increasing numbers Sinhalese of all religions (Muslims, Christians and Buddhists) are turning to Kataragama, an ancient Hindu God, at times of trouble and desperation. Once a year pilgrims South Asia Religion / Belief / Faith Ritual Possession Ngarap: fighting over a corpse 1973 17' Film Directed by Anthony Forge . In 1993, Anthony Forge filmed the cremation of an older woman from an affluent ‘commoner’ family. As her body was moved from her family compound to the cremation tower, men of the ward seized the South-East Asia Death Ritual Art / Artists / Artisans Archival material / Museum displays Amir - An Afghan Refugee Musician's Life in Peshavar, Pakistan 1985 52' Film Directed by John Baily . The film investigates and portrays the life of Afghan refugees living in and around the city of Peshawar in northern Pakistan through the experiences of the musician Amir. The aspirations of Afghan South Asia Music / Ethnomusicology Refugees / Displaced populations A Summer Task 2013 47' Film Directed by Anna Grimshaw . "A Summer Task" examines the rhythm and tempo of work in the forest. The film follows Bill Coperthwaite and his cousin, Steve, as they fell and haul trees to build a bridge and begin North America Alternative culture Everyday Life Rural Art / Artists / Artisans The Way We Live Now 2016 32' Film 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 Fatuma and Asya. Two Afar Girls in Ethiopia 2014 59' Film Directed by Francesco Sincich . Two young Afar girls, Fatuma (10) and Asya (13), show us their daily life in two different contexts of the Afar Region in Ethiopia. Both of them face hard challenges: finding an alternative way to West Africa Gender Role and Identity Marriage Children / Young people Rural Celso and Cora 2000 109' Film Directed by Gary Kildea . The film is about one family who live in the slums of Manila. Gary Kildea and a Filipino collaborator enter this family's life, filming them as they eat, as they care for their children, as they work South-East Asia Squatter Settlements / Homelessness Family / Kinship Urban Pepe 2004 23' Film Directed by Juana Schlenker . Pepe is a Spanish immigrant who came to England more than forty years ago to work as a waiter. After working in several restaurants and hotels, he retired two years ago and now he fills his days with British-Irish Isles Migration Elderly people Into the Field 2005 28' Film Directed by Alyssa Grossman . 'Into the Field' follows the everyday “secular” lives of nuns in a Orthodox nunnery in Romania. Documenting the nuns’ activities, relationships and roles within their community, the film also South-East Europe Religion / Belief / Faith Animation Majma 2001 54' Film Directed by Rahul Roy . Aslam sells medicines for sexual problems on the pavements of Meena Bazar near Jama Masjid in Delhi. Khalifa Barkat presides over an wrestling gym (akhara) in the adjacent park and puts a group of South Asia Gender Role and Identity Sport Socioeconomic conditions Up Down & Sideways 2017 83' Film Special Interest Directed by Anushka Meenakshi Iswar Srikumar . We are delighted to screen Up Down and Sideways, the winner of the Ethnomusicology Film Award 2019, which is presented in collaboration with the British Forum of Ethnomusicology. Almost all of Séance Reflections with Richard Werbner 2004 45' Film Directed by Richard Werbner . Njebe and Martha are a childless couple living in Botswana’s capital. Seeking to recover their well-being, they consult a charismatic diviner and healer, in Njebe’s old village, Moremi. They Southern Africa Health / Health care / Healing Ritual Reproduction (biology) Khyber 1979 49' Film Directed by André Singer Andy Harries . For more than a century Britain was engaged in war with the Pashtun tribesmen of India's North West frontier. It began with the bloodiest massacre in the history of the British Empire when, in South Asia War / Conflict / Reconciliation Colonialism / Postcolonialism History The Sakuddei 1974 52' Film Directed by John Sheppard . The Sakuddei are a small and ethnically separate community living on the island of Siberut off the west coast of Sumatra in Indonesia. Their distinctive way of life and elaborate religious South-East Asia Collective / Community identity Social Change Land Rights Burying Hallelujah 2014 51' Film Directed by Richard Werbner . Hallelujah, a 'bush mechanic' turned archbishop, gets the funeral he deserves, one of the very biggest in Botswana's railway town, Palapye. Many churches come together, their robes, splendid, their Southern Africa Religion / Belief / Faith Death A Kabul Music Diary 2003 52' Film Directed by John Baily . Ethnomusicologist John Baily returns to Kabul to see what is happening in the world of music one year after the defeat of the Taliban. The film documents a variety of musical activities, including Middle and Near East Music / Ethnomusicology War / Conflict / Reconciliation Calcutta Calling 2006 16' Film 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 The Rendille 1977 52' Film Directed by Chris Curling . The Rendille are camel herders who live in villages and camps dotted over 10,000 square miles of desert and scrub bush in Northern Kenya. As the terrain they occupy is so dry, the Rendille grow no East Africa Herding Animals Social Organisation Everyday Life Living with the Revolution 1983 52' Film Directed by Leslie Woodhead Claire Lasko . *These three films ('Inside China: Living with the Revolution'; 'The Newest Revolution'; 'The Kazakhs of China') present a valuable record of aspects of most recent developments in China.* (A. Central Asia and Far East Social Change History Family / Kinship Witchcraft Among the Azande 1982 52' Film Directed by André Singer . *Witchcraft among the Azande' is suitable for showing in undergraduate and graduate classes on topics of religion, philosophy, and African ethnography. It could also be stimulating to discussions of West Africa Religion / Belief / Faith Health / Health care / Healing Social Change Nuba Conversation 1989 53' Film Directed by Arthur Howes . Ten years after he made 'Kafi's Story', director Arthur Howes returns to the Sudan to find the members of the Nuba who featured in his earlier documentary film. Soon after he had left the Sudan, the North and Northeast Africa Children / Young people War / Conflict / Reconciliation Refugees / Displaced populations Masai Women 1974 52' Film Directed by Chris Curling . The Masai are cattle herders living in the East African rift valley: they grow no crops and are proud of being a non-agricultural people. Cattle are the all-important source of wealth and social East Africa Gender Role and Identity Social Change Ritual Social Organisation Nomads and Nomadism Herding Masai Manhood 1975 52' Film Directed by Chris Curling . This film was made after 'Masai Women' and in the same area. Together the two films provide a vivid view of Masai men and women and their place in Masai society. The Masai are pastoral nomads in East Africa Gender Role and Identity Social Change Ritual Social Organisation Nomads and Nomadism Herding Waiting for Harry 1980 57' Film Directed by Kim McKenzie . Although the events around which this film was planned were the final mortuary rites for Les Angabarraparra, the subject of the film became interaction. Interaction between the anthropologist Les Australia Informant-researcher relationship Indigenous peoples / First Nations peoples Death Reflexivity Autumn’s Work 2013 47' Film Directed by Anna Grimshaw . "Autumn’s Work" follows Bill Coperthwaite as he prepares for winter. Wrestling with a large felled tree amidst its vast tangle of branches, Bill slowly and methodically breaks it down North America Alternative culture Rural Everyday Life Art / Artists / Artisans Read Me 2008 29' Film Directed by Janina Kriszio . Reading traditionally played an important role for German (self-)identification. In 2000 an international survey revealed that German pupils are lacking basic reading skills, giving rise to Western Europe Education / Knowledge transmission Beneath the Budding Greenwoods 2004 25' Film Directed by Evie Wright . Anne and Rosemary both chose to bury their husbands in the woods, whereas Tony was certain he didn't want a vicar at his wife's funeral. Focusing on the experiences of three grieving widows, the film British-Irish Isles Environment Ritual Death Religion / Belief / Faith Living with the Invisibles 2003 52' Film Directed by Dirk Dumont . When they emigrated to Europe in the 60’s and 70’s, Moroccans brought with them their culture and their “diseases” ( caused by the the jinn that inhabit some of them). In Europe, most North North and Northeast Africa Health / Health care / Healing Possession Migration Shade Seekers and The Mixer 2006 60' Film Directed by Richard Werbner . Set in Moremi village within Botswana’s awesome Tswapong hills, the film makes village elders self-consciously reflexive. The elders, including a controversial healer, view and discuss an earlier Southern Africa Health / Health care / Healing Religion / Belief / Faith Informant-researcher relationship Caught in Between 2016 56' Film Directed by Richard Werbner . The focus is on a leading village elder, John Lelatlhego, a retired Human Resources administrator trained in settling disputes in the South African mines. John gets entangled in the long troubled Southern Africa Family / Kinship Gender Role and Identity Law and Legislation / Bureaucracy Love Marriage Counterpoint Botswana 2011 45' Film Directed by Richard Werbner . Seeing 'Holy Hustler', the 2009 film made in Botswana, local viewers respond and discuss it with the filmmaker Richard Werbner in 2011. 'Counterpoint Botswana' captures the reception by home British-Irish Isles Reflexivity Some Alien Creatures 2005 74' Film Directed by David MacDougall . A film about the famous experimental, co-educational boarding school in South India, the Rishi Valley School, founded by the influential Indian thinker Krishnamurti. In this film about a progressive South Asia Children / Young people Gender Role and Identity Education / Knowledge Transmission Encountering Eloyi 2008 56' Film Directed by Richard Werbner . Of all the faith-healing churches in Botswana, Eloyi is the most controversial. Sensational stories in newspapers and on television have made Eloyi notorious for so-called witch-busting and for Southern Africa Health / Health care / Healing Ritual Religion / Belief / Faith Reproduction (biology) Counterpoint One 2011 37' Film 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 Counterpoint Two 2011 45' Film Directed by Richard Werbner . The second in the 'Forum Follies' series, 'Counterpoint Two' pitches the ethnographic filmmaker Richard Werbner into debate with audiences for his film 'Encountering Eloyi' (2008), from a rough to a British-Irish Isles Reflexivity Gods and Satans 2005 87' Film Directed by Martine Journet Gérard Nougarol Gabriel Chabanier . Among the Wana people, semi nomads from the Indonesian (Sulawesi) forest, Indo Pino is a shaman recognized by everybody. Her nephew, who is also a shaman’s son, converted to Christianity some South-East Asia Religion / Belief / Faith Shamans and Shamanism Inter-religious relations Spring in Dickinson’s Reach 2013 83' Film Directed by Anna Grimshaw . "Spring in Dickinson’s Reach" provides an introduction to the unique environment that Bill Coperthwaite has crafted in the Maine forest. Beginning in early spring, the film follows North America Alternative culture Rural Everyday Life Art / Artists / Artisans Kafi's Story 1979 53' Film Directed by Arthur Howes Amy Hardie . Shot in 1989, Kafi's Story captures Nuba life at the moment before it was engulfed in the Sudanese civil war. Kafi narrates his own story into a portable tape record as he travels from his village, North and Northeast Africa Film / Photography / Mass media Marriage Tourism / Travel / Pilgrimage Democracía Indígena 2000 39' Film Directed by Bruce Pacho Lane . This film examines the indigenous rights revolution sweeping Mexico through the municipal elections in Huehuetla, Puebla. In 1989, the Huehuetla Totonacs formed the Organización Independiente Central America Indigenous peoples / First Nations peoples Political Activists Cultivating Death 2003 23' Film 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 Making it Big in Berlin 2009 24' Film Directed by Claudia Goldberg . In Berlin, where low rents and space for creative ideas are still available, self-employed workers live the alternative to a nine-to-five-job. A sewing café owner, a freelance journalist and two Western Europe Alternative culture Art / Artists / Artisans Only Thinking 2009 27' Film Directed by Gabriel Merrun . On the North African coast in Ceuta, illegal migrants wait and hope to eventually continue onto the Spanish peninsula where they can attain asylum. Whilst waiting there, they are caught bewteen the borders. North and Northeast Africa Migration Sophia and Her People 1985 35' Film Directed by Peter Loïzos . Sofia and her family lost their village home in 1975 when Turkey invaded Cyprus. The film, mainly set in Nicosia in 1983, shows the pressures of refugee economic recovery through shift work in a South-East Europe Refugees / Displaced populations Social Change Family / Kinship Benjamin and His Brother 1999 87' Film Directed by Arthur Howes . Years of war and ethnic conflict in the Sudan have created a generation of young men, known as the "Lost Boys", who have spent more years in refugee camps than in their home communities. North America East Africa Refugees / Displaced populations War / Conflict / Reconciliation Children / Young people Family / Kinship Kalès 2017 63' Film RAI Basil Wright Directed by Laurent van Lanker . A film of wind and despair, of fire and solidarity, of hope and hell. An intimate and inside perspective of the ‘jungle’ of Calais, evoked through a polyphony of bodies, tales, and Western Europe Migration Refugees / Displaced populations Squatter Settlements / Homelessness Participatory / Collaborative methods Back to Basics 1994 33' Film Directed by Dominic French . A group of environmentalists and homeless have purchased some land on which to settle and get back to a simpler way of life. But the nearby residents of the 'best-kept village’ in Somerset, British-Irish Isles Social Conflict Alternative culture Land Rights Caught in a Magic Place 2007 28' Film 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 Eco trip 1997 30' Film Directed by Rachel Robertson . A group of eco-activists travel around Britain attending festivals and other events aimed at raising awareness of ecological issues and of new, alternative ways of living. But sometimes relationships British-Irish Isles Alternative culture Environment Cuyagua - Devil Dancers 1987 52' Film Directed by Paul Henley . The men of the Afro-Caribbean population of Cuyagua enact a ritual that occurs 60 days after Easter. The film is a portrait of two men who direct the devil dancing. They tell the history of the South America Ritual Religion / Belief / Faith Conversations with Dundiwuy Wanambi 1984 50' Film Directed by Ian Dunlop Philippa Deveson . A series of interviews with Dundiwuy Wanambi, shot over twelve years. They reveal the struggles of one man in the face of the huge changes brought about by the coming of a mining project, and Australia Indigenous peoples / First Nations peoples Health / Health care / Healing Social Change Round Trip 1999 36' Film Directed by Angela Torresan . Portrait of a Brazilian woman and her friends, now living in Lisbon, exploring the basis of their sense of identity in the context of a transnational way of life. Western Mediterranean Collective / Community identity Migration John the Eel Trapper 1982 28' Film Directed by Toni de Bromhead . The fens of East Anglia provide the scenery for this documentary. At the centre of the film is John, a solitary character, who makes his living by trapping eels in the numerous canals of the area. British-Irish Isles Animals Hunting / Gathering / Fishing Dor, Low is Better 1988 47' Film 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 A Village Heritage 1985 52' Film Directed by Toni de Bromhead . The first of the **Caught in the Web** trilogy, which compares and contrast aspects of life in a Dorset community in the Bride Valley and a French village in Provence, Villes-sur-Auzon, Vauclause. Western Europe British-Irish Isles Socioeconomic conditions Rural Barah Pal 2009 30' Film Directed by Jennifer Rosen . 12 castes of gypsy artists ended their nomadic ways nearly 45 years ago to squat in New Delhi. Now the slum is being dismantled and rehabilitated. These are their last months in the colony as they South Asia Refugees / Displaced populations Squatter Settlements / Homelessness Travellers / Roma Urban Jungle Cat 2000 29' Film Directed by Natalie Schädler . In search of the righteous way of living, the Liberian rapper CyLover, aka as 'Jungle Cat' wants to make music for his people. Now based in Ghana, the big chance to finish his first album approaches West Africa Music / Ethnomusicology Mongolia part 2: The City on the Steppes 1975 52' Film Directed by Brian Moser . The second of two films on Mongolia made by Granada Television in 1974–75 looks at life in Ulan Bator, the capital of Mongolia and home of a quarter of the population. The city celebrates the 53rd Central Asia and Far East Festivals / Carnival Urban Everyday Life Extended Family 2016 31' Film 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 Suspend your Beliefs 2004 29' Film Directed by Simone Clifford-Jaeger . Suspension of the living body from hooks has been practiced in various cultural contexts and places in the past, but today forms part of a growing global interest in body modification. This film British-Irish Isles Alternative culture The Skills You Passed On 1992 50' Film Directed by Heimo Lappalainen . The second of three films about the Evenki people of eastern Siberia. Focuses on Nikolaj Pavlovich Archemku, who experienced the very beginning of Soviet power, two World Wars, and the Central Asia and Far East Nomads and Nomadism Everyday Life A Hospice in Amsterdam 2005 62' Film Directed by Steef Meyknecht . At the end of Van Goghstraat in Amsterdam is the Veerhuis. A normal residential house in a normal urban area, where children play outside in front of the door. But people come to the Veerhuis to die. Western Europe Health / Health care / Healing Elderly people Sermiligaag 65°54'N, 36°22'W 2008 64' Film Directed by Anni Seitz Sophie Elixhauser . The people of East Greenland inhabit a small string of coastal land at the edge of the biggest island of the world. Long winters have always shaped daily life here, a life that has gone within a few North America Rural Social Change Environment Sunny and the Dark Horse 1986 86' Film Directed by David MacDougall Judith MacDougall . A true story of a country family’s gradual involvement and growing passion for ‘picnic racing’. Sunny Bancroft is an Aboriginal cattle-station manager in New South Wales. With his Australia Rural Indigenous peoples / First Nations peoples Animals A Wife Among Wives 1981 72' Film Directed by Judith MacDougall David MacDougall . This segment of the trilogy on the Turkana of northern Kenya (see 'Lorang’s Way' and 'The Wedding Camels' above) evolves around the role of women in the society. The audience follows the East Africa Gender Role and Identity Marriage Family / Kinship The Golden Beach 2008 58' Film Directed by Hasse Wester . A small group of farmers belonging to the Halakki Gowda tribe live near a small beach in a valley in southern India. When the Swedish film maker Hasse Wester was first there twenty years ago the South Asia Tourism / Travel / Pilgrimage Rural Social Change Sahar’s Wedding 1991 46' Film Directed by Hanna Musleh . The chronicle of a wedding in a village in Palestine under Israeli occupation at the time of the first Intifada, this film looks at the lives of the bride and groom, and their families. Attitudes Middle and Near East Marriage Social Change Vaud and the Villains 2010 30' Film Directed by Lukas Belkind . Three members of an 18-piece, 1930s style, American folk big band explore their personal relationships with Los Angeles, performing, the music they love, and the band that binds them all together. North America Dance / Theatre / Performance Music / Ethnomusicology All that Glitters 2003 32' Film Directed by Irene Petropoulou . For the people of Olympos, a small mountain village on the Greek island of Carpathos, preserving tradition is of great importance, not least as a source of income. The parading 'brides' of the Virgin South-East Europe Tourism / Travel / Pilgrimage Intergenerational relations Ritual Drugs & Prayers 2009 55' Film Directed by Helene Basu . The Sufi shrine of Mira Datar in North Gujarat is a large pilgrimage centre specialising in healing possession and mental illness. It has become a site of experimenting with new forms of community South Asia Health / Health care / Healing Ritual Religion / Belief / Faith Gelede: A Yoruba Masquerade 1970 30' Film Directed by Frank Speed Peggy Harper . Among the Yoruba of Western Nigeria and Dahomey the Gelede cult honours the earth spirits, the ancestors and especially the Great Mother. The festival filmed here emphasises the status of women and West Africa Gender Role and Identity Ritual Festivals / Carnival Social Conflict Ustad Rahim 2008 55' Film Directed by John Baily . Shot in the city of Heart, western Afghanistan 1994, in the period between the fall of the last leftist government and the coming of the Taliban, this is a portrait film of an outstanding musician, South Asia Music / Ethnomusicology Education / Knowledge Transmission Personal Narrative Lessons from Gulam 1986 52' Film Directed by John Baily . A detailed study of musical enculturation within the Asian community of Bradford in northern England. Gulam Musa is the principal character and he is shown as a teacher and as a musician. The film British-Irish Isles Music / Ethnomusicology Education / Knowledge Transmission Releasing the Spirits: a village cremation in Bali 1991 44' Film Directed by Patsy Asch Linda Connor Timothy Asch . In 1978, as part of the preparations for the island-wide ceremony eka dasa rudra, religious officials urged all Balinese to cleanse the island by cremating their dead. Many were forced to pool South-East Asia Death Ritual Life Chances: Four Families in a Greek Cypriot Village 1974 43' Film Directed by Peter Loizos . A careful account of social change in a prosperous Greek Cypriot village, which follows four closely related families before the Turkish made them all refugees. Their lives reflect the possibilities South-East Europe Social Change Life Story / Life History Rural Family / Kinship Ballad on the Shore 2017 98' Film Intangible Culture Directed by Chi-hang Ma . On the small isle of Tap Mun, Hong Kong, veteran fishermen sing ballads with pitches and tones that alternate and repeat themselves as if they were synchronising with the ocean waves. But as fewer Hong Kong Hunting / Gathering / Fishing Music / Ethnomusicology Sacred Harp Singers 1984 85' Film Directed by Mark Brice . A moving portrait of harp singers Leonard and Mazine Lacy. Sacred harp music is a kind of harmonised plainsong practised in rural America. This film was shot in Sand Mountain, Alabama, and is North America Music / Ethnomusicology Rural Cae Dai - a Home From Home 1997 30' Film Directed by Will Grove-White . 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 The Devil’s Mills. Roundabouts don't Build Houses any more 2006 56' Film Directed by János Tari . The everyday life of migrant fun fair operators is the filter through which we view the social and economic factors of the 20th and early 21st century that define the life and work of this social Central Europe Labour Social Change Trade Festivals / Carnival The Veil Unveiled 2004 29' Film Directed by Vanessa Langer . In Yemen, the land of Queen Saba, a wide variety of veils can be found. In the capital Sana’a, the women, although at first sight appearing to all be wearing but black, distinguish themselves one Middle and Near East Gender Role and Identity Material Culture Religion / Belief / Faith The New Boys 2003 100' Film Directed by David MacDougall . The social dynamics of the group is the focus of this study of life in Foot House, one of Doon School’s dormitories for new boys. It begins a few days before the boys appear and shows them South Asia Children / Young people Education / Knowledge Transmission Collective / Community identity Rockerill: Rekindling the Fire 2011 53' Film Directed by Yves Mora . Five years ago, one of the oldest industrial buildings of Charleroi- ‘les Forges de la Providence’- was saved from demolition being brought by two citizens: Thierry Camuy and Mika Hell. Together Western Europe Alternative culture Art / Artists / Artisans Views from Heavenly Lake 2010 26' Film Directed by Polly Vinken . Since the beginning of the Mao era in 1949, populations that were once nomadic, isolated by miles of desert and mountains across the Tian Shan ranges, are now becoming highly sought after objects of Central Asia and Far East Tourism / Travel / Pilgrimage Social Change The Mende 1990 52' Film Directed by Bruce MacDonald . This is a portrait of Kpuawala, Sierra Leone, a village of some 260 Mende people living in a clearing in the forest in houses of mud brick and tin. Like any village portrait it gossips, happy West Africa Everyday Life Social Organisation Rural The Orchard Keepers 2014 24' Film Directed by Bryony Dunne . Against the backdrop of political upheaval, an ancient network of orchards thrives in the mountains of the Sinai desert. Filmmaker Bryony Dunne shadows two Bedouins as they nurture their gardens and North and Northeast Africa Environment Archaeobotany / Ethnobotany Rural Are You Listening! 2012 90' Film Directed by Kamar Ahmad Simon Sara Afreen . By the coastal belts of Bangladesh, in a small village named Sutarkhali, Rakhi, 27, lives with her husband Soumen, 32, and their 6 year-old son Rahul. Fighting against all the odds of the woods, South Asia Environment Disasters Refugees / Displaced populations Development projects Campo 9 2013 25' Film 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 Duminea: A Festival for the Water Spirits 1966 20' Film Directed by Frank Speed Robin Horton . The communal rituals of most villages of the Eastern Niger Delta focus on two great classes of spirits - the heroes and the water people. The heroes once lived with the men, founded their West Africa Ritual Possession Two Ears, One Mouth 1999 25' Film Directed by Andy Benfield . Duncan Williamson is of Traveller descent and lives in Scotland, Amy Douglas is fifty years younger and lives in Cheshire. But they share a love for telling stories and both manage to make a living British-Irish Isles Travellers / Roma Art / Artists / Artisans Shepherds in the Cave 2016 87' Film Material Culture Directed by Anthony Grieco . An international team of art restorers, archaeologists and volunteers begin work on the restoration of religious frescoes inside a network of ancient caves. Faced with local bureaucratic challenges Western Mediterranean Archaeology Herding Art / Artists / Artisans Law and Legislation / Bureaucracy Guiyang Beautiful Flavour Barbecue 2000 30' Film Directed by Richard Hughes . In the teeming cities of the most populated country on earth, 20 years of economic reform have brought new opportunity, new energy, and new dangers. This film follows one family's efforts to navigate South-East Asia Food Social Change Labour Yukaghir Stories 1997 30' Film Directed by Rane Willerslev . The Yukhagirs are one of the small indigenous peoples of Northern Siberia. This film, shot in the village of Nelemnoye, explores what it means to be a Yukhagir. Central Asia and Far East Indigenous peoples / First Nations peoples Collective / Community identity We Are Born to Survive 1995 30' Film Directed by Paul Henley Paul Okojie . A political biography of the activist Kath Locke, from Manchester's Moss Side, based on an interview conducted by her political comrade Paul Okojie shortly before her death in 1992, aged 64. British-Irish Isles Political Activists Race / Racism / Antiracism Public Figure A Delicate Weave 2017 61' Film Intangible Culture Directed by Anjali Monteiro KP Jayasankar . A fascinating tapestry of four different musical journeys across Gujarat, India: we meet a group of young men in Bhujodi who meet every night to sing the verses of 15th-century Indian mystic and poet The Child's Eye 2018 ' Film Directed by David MacDougall . This video is a series of 12 short films that are the result of ethnographic filmmaker David MacDougall’s a five-year project video workshop project with Indian children. In six workshops held in South Asia Children / Young people Informant-researcher relationship Participatory / Collaborative methods Message from a Saint 2003 27' Film Directed by Andrew Tucker . During the celebration of the Feast of San Juan Bautista in the village of Chuao, on the Caribbean coast of Venezuela, an image of Jesus appeared on a drinks tray. The community is trying to find out South America Religion / Belief / Faith Indo Pino 2002 84' Film Directed by Martine Journet Gérard Nougarol Gabriel Chabamier . The small ethnic group of the Wana Wewaju live in Indonesia in the eastern part of Sulawesi (Celebes Island) among the dense equatorial rain forest of the Tokkala Mountains. The film documents the South-East Asia Shamans and Shamanism Health / Health care / Healing Eat the Kimono 1989 60' Film Directed by Kim Longinotto Claire Hunt . A compelling biography of Hanayagi Genshu, a feminist and dancer who spent her lifetime defying the conservative traditions of Japanese society with her radical politics and unconventional Central Asia and Far East Public Figure Gender Role and Identity Art / Artists / Artisans Dance / Theatre / Performance Alternative culture Lorang's Way 1977 69' Film Directed by David MacDougall Judith MacDougall . The Turkana are a group of semi-nomadic pastoralists who inhabit a harsh environment of dry thorn country in northwestern Kenya. Lorang’s Way focuses upon a Turkana elder. Having spent time away East Africa Herding Social Change Nomads and Nomadism [S+P2] 2010 30' Film Directed by Yasmin Samir-Shakir . Following various members of The Forest Collective in the run-up to the 'DIY' arts space's Tenth Birthday celebrations, we observe some of the internal and external struggles faced by this British-Irish Isles Alternative culture Collective / Community identity Saliendo Adelante 2011 28' Film Directed by Ben Cheetham . Growing up on the streets of Bogotá, where drugs and violence dominate, it seemed as though José might never escape this cycle. It is the job of Orlando and those at the Institution for the South America Children / Young people Socioeconomic conditions Development projects We Are All Neighbours 1993 52' Film Directed by Debbie Christie . The film shows the effect of war on families in a racially mixed village outside Sarajevo, Bosnia, where Bosnian Croats and Bosnian Moslems lived peacefully together. Norwegian anthropologist Tone South-East Europe War / Conflict / Reconciliation Collective / Community identity Inter-religious relations My Eyes as a Stranger 1984 53' Film Directed by Toni de Bromhead . This film tells the story of the friendship between an English filmmaker and Nicola, a Sicilian ex-gangster who lives in Florence. The film moves to and fro between a street of ill repute, and the South-East Europe Gender Role and Identity Room 11, Ethiopia Hotel 2006 23' Film Directed by Itsushi Kawase . The film recounts the life of children living on the street in Gondar, Ethiopia, by witnessing the interaction between two children and the filmmaker. The entire film was shot in the room of Ethiopia North and Northeast Africa Children / Young people Squatter Settlements / Homelessness Informant-researcher relationship Reflexivity Treasured Moments 2016 33' Film 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 Ringtone 2014 30' Film Directed by Jennifer Deger Paul Wunungmurra . Yolngu Aboriginal families offer glimpses into their lives and relationships through their choice of ringtones. From ancestral clan songs to 80s hip hop artists and local gospel tunes, these songs Australia Indigenous peoples / First Nations peoples Music / Ethnomusicology Material Culture Photo Wallahs 1991 60' Film Directed by David MacDougall Judith MacDougall . This film is an exploration of the cultural and personal meanings of photographs in a hill station in northern India. The ‘photo wallahs’ are the local photographers of Mussoorie, a town which South Asia Film / Photography / Mass media Tourism / Travel / Pilgrimage Fighting for Control 1998 30' Film Directed by Alexia Coppe . An unconventional household of two women and five children in South London, attempting to leave a difficult past behind, and build a happy future. British-Irish Isles Family / Kinship Fighting for Nothing to Happen 2015 48' Film 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 Worldwide, Streetwise 2003 32' Film Directed by Naomi Richards . A film that explores issues of faith and activism at a radical church in an ethnically and religiously diverse area of Leeds. British-Irish Isles Religion / Belief / Faith Urban Political Activists Holy Men and Fools 2005 61' Film Directed by Michael Yorke . The film narrates the story of Uma Giri, a Swedish woman who has become a Hindu nun, called Uma Giri. She is one of the few western women to be accepted into the most radical order of wandering South Asia Religion / Belief / Faith Inter-religious relations Tourism / Travel / Pilgrimage Marriage, Maoism and Modernity 2009 30' Film Directed by Zhifang Song Gary Seaman Steven Rousso-Schindler . This film outlines the types of marriage exchange practiced in a Chinese village over the last fifty years. Dowry, brideprice and exchange marriages have dominated the marriage market in turn as Central Asia and Far East Marriage History Social Change Rock ‘n’ Pray 2001 24' Film Directed by Fotini Stefani . The monks from the monastery of Saints Augustine and Serapheim Sarow on mainland Greece have found modern ways to appeal to young people. The film explores how their traditional life co-exists with South-East Europe Religion / Belief / Faith Intergenerational relations Raju and His Friends 1988 40' Film Directed by Marcus Banks . This film is set in the city of Jamnagar, western India. The film focuses on the emotions, quality of life, and on duty. Raju’s friendship with different people, including the director, provide a South Asia Urban Informant-researcher relationship Life Story / Life History The Guest 2012 20' Film 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 Komian 2015 72' Film Directed by Jordi Esteva . Four years after the filming of “Return to the Land of Souls”, about the rituals of trance and possession, the narrator travels to Ivory Coast in search of a priestess possessed by the Spirit of West Africa Possession Ritual Music / Ethnomusicology Across the Border: Afghan Musicians exiled in Peshawar 2008 54' Film Directed by John Baily . It is the year 2000 and most of Afghanistan is under the control of the Taliban. Hearing that many of Afghanistain’s musicians are now in exile across the border in Pakistan, ethnomusicologist John South Asia Refugees / Displaced populations Music / Ethnomusicology Religion / Belief / Faith To Get That Country 1978 70' Film Directed by David MacDougall . An important historical film of events surrounding early meetings of the Northern Land Council in 1977, where uranium mining, land rights and Aboriginal leadership were the key issues. Australia Indigenous peoples / First Nations peoples Land Rights Social Organisation Mursi: The Land is Bad 1991 52' Film Directed by Leslie Woodhead . A further visit to the Mursi of Southern Ethiopia with whom contact was established 17 years ago, for an important coming of age ceremony which has had to be postponed many times. An elder of the North and Northeast Africa Ritual Social Conflict Health / Health care / Healing 37 Uses for a Dead Sheep 2006 85' Film Directed by Ben Hopkins . The Pamir Kirghiz are a tribe of some 2,000 people from the Pamir region of Central Asia. For the last 27 years they have lived in exile in Eastern Turkey. In 2005 an Anglo-Turkish film crew arrives Middle and Near East Film / Photography / Mass media Animals Migration Swings and Roundabouts 1994 30' Film Directed by Helen Pratt . Five years after the downfall of Ceausescu and Romania still receives an influx of Western European aid workers to help with rural orphanage projects. Temporary and full-time volunteers at an South-East Europe Children / Young people Squatter Settlements / Homelessness Development projects Domov 2000 28' Film Directed by Rosie Read . This film looks at the meaning of 'home' in the Czech Republic through the eyes of two women - one an old woman trying to assert her right to return home from an old person's residence, and the Central Europe Prison Elderly people The Kawelka: Ongka’s Big Moka 1974 52' Film Directed by Charlie Nairn . Ongka is a charismatic big-man of the Kawelka tribe who live scattered in the Western highlands, north of Mount Hagen, in Papua New Guinea. The film focuses on the motivations and efforts involved Melanesia Ritual Festivals / Carnival Social Conflict Habilito - Debt for Life 2010 52' Film Directed by Chuck Sturtevant . This documentary explores many of the conflicts and tensions that arise at the point of contact between highland migrants and lowland indigenous peoples, focusing particularly on the system of debt South America Socioeconomic conditions Migration Indigenous peoples / First Nations peoples Labour Uzu 2015 27' Film Directed by Gaspard Kuentz . Held every October in the city of Matsuyama, the Dogo Autumn Festival is one of the most violent religious festivals celebrated in Japan. Eight teams of men carrying massive portable wood shrines Central Asia and Far East Ritual Gender Role and Identity New Images 1964 27' Film Directed by Ulli Beier Frank Speed . The film is a brief description of life in a busy commercial centre that still depends upon and retains its ancient traditions. These are based on the history of the town which was founded on the West Africa Art / Artists / Artisans Religion / Belief / Faith Archival material / Museum displays The Quechua 1974 52' Film Directed by Carlos Pasini David Ash . This film is set in a community of peasant agriculturalists 2 1/4 miles above sea level in the southern Peruvian Andes. Concentrating on a single family, the film explores aspects of religious and South America Indigenous peoples / First Nations peoples Religion / Belief / Faith Social Change Call for Grace 2000 30' Film 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 Ritual Journeys 2011 75' Film Directed by Dawa Lepcha Anna Balikci . The film is an intimate portrait of Merayk, an 80 years old Lepcha shaman or Padim. Merayk lives with his family in Dzongu, a Lepcha reserve in North Sikkim. He performs healing rituals for South Asia Ritual Shamans and Shamanism Health / Health care / Healing Holding the Tradition 1998 28' Film Directed by Matthew Fassnidge . The annual regatta on the island of Malta has been passionately contested for over 200 years by a number of local rowing clubs. Marsamxett has been dismissed by the others as being a club for 'old Western Mediterranean Sport Nuba Wrestling 1991 42' Film Directed by Rolf Husmann Werner Sperschneider . The weekly wrestling tournaments of the Sudanese Nuba migrants in Khartoum usually take place between Northern and Southern Nuba men. The sport helps them strengthen their ethnic identity in a North and Northeast Africa Collective / Community identity Gender Role and Identity Urban Sport Temporary Sanity: The Skerrit Boy Story 2006 32' Film Directed by Dan Bruun . This film deals with the culture of Jamaican dancehall music as it exists in New York. It follows one young dancehall participant who makes his living performing and promoting dancehall music. North America Music / Ethnomusicology Alternative culture A Small Light 2004 32' Film Directed by Julia Yezbick . Through following the daily life of a home for the elderly in Kathmandhu, Nepal, run by Catholic nuns but situated beside the cremation ghats of Pashupathinath Hindu temple, this film explores South Asia Death Inter-religious relations Religion / Belief / Faith Elderly people Under the Men's Tree 1973 15' Film Directed by David MacDougall Judith MacDougall . At Jie cattle camps in Uganda men often gather under a special tree to make leather and wooden goods and talk, relax, and sleep. This brilliant ethnographic documentary by renowned filmmakers David East Africa Infrastructure / Transport Informant-researcher relationship Reflexivity Future Remembrance - Photography and Image Arts in Ghana 1998 54' Film Directed by Tobias Wendl Nancy du Plessis . The film portrays a vibrant range of contemporary and historical images by artists and photographers in Ghana. While glancing through the history of black & white photography in Ghana, the film West Africa Film / Photography / Mass media Art / Artists / Artisans Memory Endgames 2008 32' Film Directed by Ilinca Calugareanu . The film follows a day in the life of Cluj-Napoca, a city in Transylvania, focusing on the way the lives of the three main characters - Valer, an 85 year old retired colonel, Daria, an 89 year old South-East Europe Post-communism Elderly people Memory Muktuk 1983 40' Film Directed by Graham Johnston . Shot on the mosquito-ridden shores of the Mackenzie Delta in Canada’s North-West territories, the film deals with the annual Beluga (white whale) hunt. Three families are followed who have North America Hunting / Gathering / Fishing Animals Indigenous peoples / First Nations peoples Education / Knowledge transmission The Trobriand Islanders 1952 58' Film Directed by Harry Powell . During his field work in the region of Omarakana, H.A.Powell filmed various sequences from which the film is assembled. In spite of the technical handicaps under which he was operating — shooting Melanesia Everyday Life Vivir la Chicha 2003 28' Film Directed by Sharis Coppens . Chicha music evokes the experiences of the many Peruvians who migrate from the high Andes down to the cities. This film tells the story of Aurora Ramos, a cobbler and market saleswoman, and the role South America Music / Ethnomusicology Trade Migration Those who Care: Faith and Freedom in a Ladakhi Village 2001 31' Film Directed by Henriette Levaulx-Vrecourt . In Tia village, in an isolated area of Ladakh - North West India - lives an amchi (a local herbal doctor) and his wife. It is summer - a short season in the Indian Himalayas and the only period of South Asia Health / Health care / Healing Archaeobotany / Ethnobotany Made in Trenchtown 2010 33' Film Directed by Ester Maagdenberg . 'Made in Trenchtown' is the product of a collaboration with three teenagers from Trenchtown - a ghetto in Kingston, Jamaica, controlled by drug lords. As Philomena, Diamond and Stephan hold the Caribbean Islands Children / Young people Reflexivity Between two Villages 2003 94' Film Directed by Muriel Jaquerod Eduardo Saraiva Pereira . Between two Villages tells the story of Aldeia da Luz, population of 330, bound to disappear with the construction of the Alqueva dam in the south of Portugal. A new village is being built a few Western Mediterranean Resettlement Development projects Infrastructure / Transport The Land on which We Stand 2007 31' Film Directed by Becky Payne . This film is a glimpse into the life of the Landmatters Co-operative, a community of 11 adults and 4 children living in benders and yurts in rural Devon as they develop a permaculture project. The 42 British-Irish Isles Rural Alternative culture Stockman's Strategy 1984 52' Film Directed by David MacDougall Judith MacDougall . A film which explores the philosophy of teaching and learning of Sunny Bancroft, manager of an Aboriginal-run cattle station in northern New South Wales. It also tells the story of Shane Gordon, a Australia Indigenous peoples / First Nations peoples Animals Education / Knowledge transmission Three Horsemen 1982 50' Film Directed by David MacDougall Judith MacDougall . Bob Massey Pootchemunka has spent most of his life as a stockman and drover. Now over 75, his ambition is to see an all-Aboriginal cattle station operating at Ti-Tree on his traditional clan land. Australia Indigenous peoples / First Nations peoples Herding Animals Land Rights The Ainu Bear Ceremony 1931 27' Film Directed by Neil G. Munro . The RAI has reedited the original film of this ceremony among the Ainu people of Japan. In the bear ceremony, now no longer performed, a specially reared bear was reverently killed and its flesh and Central Asia and Far East Ritual Animals Indigenous peoples / First Nations peoples Gandhi's Children 2008 185' Film Directed by David MacDougall . A monolithic building on the outskirts of Delhi provides food and shelter for 350 boys. Some are orphans, some have been abandoned, others have run away from home. About half are held under a court South Asia Children / Young people Squatter Settlements / Homelessness Socioeconomic conditions The Mehinacu 1974 52' Film Directed by Carlos Pasini . The Mehinacu live near the head-waters of the River Xingu in Central Brazil, in a single village within the protective confines of the Xingu National Park. Although the film concentrates upon the South America Social Organisation Indigenous peoples / First Nations peoples Collective / Community identity Ritual 75 Grams 2008 31' Film Directed by Priscilla Clarissou . Nestled below the rugged Chilean peaks of the Andes lies the gold mining town of Andacollo. The town's remoteness and mining economy has nurtured religious beliefs in the power of the Virgin over the South America Labour Material Culture Religion / Belief / Faith Leyssart 2007 30' Film Directed by Alexander Hirl . Living among 8,000 animals in the South of France, Thérèse and Dominique live their passion as herders and breeders. Their philosophy of life makes us reflect on the nature of relationships between Western Europe Animals Herding Family / Kinship Heal the Whole Man 1974 50' Film Directed by Paul Robinson . The ‘Barolong boo Ratshidi’ are one of the group of Tswana peoples, who together form a culturally homogeneous population of over two million. The Barolong themselves number about 75’000 and Southern Africa Religion / Belief / Faith Health / Health care / Healing Tingvong: A Lepcha Village in Sikkim 2005 60' Film Directed by Dawa T Lepcha Anna Balikci-Denjongpa Asen Balikci . The film illustrates the changes the Lepcha of the Dzongu reserve, North Sikkim, have been through in the last 60 years. From the 1940s, the Lepcha of Tingvong village gradually abandoned hunting, South Asia Social Change Religion / Belief / Faith Agriculture / Farming You Can’t Live With Your Mouth Shut 1999 29' Film Directed by João Nicolau . Cape Verde is an archipelago situated 500km off the West Coast of Africa. On the island of Santiago lives Mano Mendi, the last player of cimboa, a one-string violin used to accompany the traditional West Africa Music / Ethnomusicology Hidden Faces 1990 52' Film Directed by Kim Longinotto . This film reveals contradictions in the lives of Egyptian women in Muslim society. Living abroad, Safaa Fathy returns to Egypt to interview the internationally renowned feminist writer Nawal El North and Northeast Africa Gender Role and Identity Development projects The Day I Will Never Forget 2002 92' Film Directed by Kim Longinotto . The documentary explores the local dimensions of the female circumcision debate in Kenyan societies. In a region of Kenya that is home to Muslims, Massai and Somali and crosscut by Christian East Africa Gender Role and Identity Ritual Law and Legislation / Bureaucracy Political Activists Kwagh Hir 1975 30' Film Directed by Frank Speed Peggy Harper . Four million Tiv people form the major culture of the Benue state of southern Nigeria. They are popularly known as the greatest democrats in Africa as their society is based on fraternal cooperation West Africa Festivals / Carnival Dance / Theatre / Performance Ritual Dreamland 2001 30' Film Directed by Gema Juárez-Allen . This film explores the dreams and frustrations of camp squatters in Rio de Janeiro State, as, supported by the MST (Landless People's Movement), they wait for permission to settle on unused land close by. South America Squatter Settlements / Homelessness Land Rights Were Ni! He is a Madman 1963 30' Film Directed by Frank Speed Raymond Prince . This ethnopsychiatric film shows the management of psychiatric disorders by the Yoruba of Nigeria. There are two basic types of institutions to deal with psychiatric disorders. First there are West Africa Health / Health care / Healing Ritual Possession The Last Lineage Opera in Zhouguan Village 2016 42' Film Intangible Culture Directed by Xun Xiong . Zhouguan, a Tunpu village in a multiethnic area of southwest China, is renowned for its performances of the Dixi exorcism operas. The village elders believe that they are descendants of ethnic Han Central Asia and Far East Dance / Theatre / Performance Music / Ethnomusicology Festivals / Carnival Social Change Contestations 1996 55' Film Directed by Michael P. Vischer Thomas Richter . The recording follows a journey from the island of Palu'e to the mainland to purchase water buffalo. Back at Palu'e, a series of sacrifices is held to make amends for transgressions. The events, part South-East Asia Ritual Pink Saris 2010 100' Film Directed by Kim Longinotto . Pink saris are worn by the Gulabi Gang, a group of women vigilantes in Northern India. From the untouchable caste, they resist being condescended to as the lowest social class. They have a champion South Asia Gender Role and Identity Resistance Socioeconomic conditions Youth Group 2015 28' Film 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 With Morning Hearts 2001 110' Film Directed by David MacDougall . This film continues MacDougall's long-term study of an elite boys' boarding school in northern India. It focuses on a group of twelve-year-olds during their first year in one of the 'houses' for new South Asia Children / Young people Education / Knowledge Transmission This is My Face 2018 57' Film 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 Tara's footprint 2018 70' Film Intangible Culture Directed by Georgina Barreiro . Tara's Footprint skilfully conjures the atmosphere of Khechuperi, a village in the Himalayas in north eastern India. Eschewing standard exposition the film follows four young siblings as they go South Asia Children / Young people Dance / Theatre / Performance Everyday Life Music / Ethnomusicology Religion / Belief / Faith Rural Bailarinas 2003 32' Film Directed by Heidi Lipsanen . Majê Molê is an Afro-Brazilian dance group which offers girls and young women in Olinda, Northeast Brazil, the opportunity to rise above the poverty, drug addiction and crime that scars their South America Dance / Theatre / Performance Gender Role and Identity Children / Young people Fresh Fields 1995 31' Film Directed by Alistair Cook . From conflict to construction — this is the story of two disabled ex-fighters rebuilding their lives. What does the future hold for them in Eritrea, the homeland to which they are committed? North and Northeast Africa Health / Health care / Healing War / Conflict / Reconciliation Development projects A Spark in Him 2008 28' Film Directed by Claudia Engels . ‘A Spark in Him’ is a film about the life story of Sajay Kumar, a young man without arms who lives in a home for disabled children in Kerala, India, and studies at the College of Fine Arts. By South Asia Health / Health care / Healing Children / Young people Education / Knowledge Transmission The Kayapo 1987 52' Film Directed by Michael Beckham . This film focuses on the conflicts and determination of a group of people trying to survive and maintain their ethnic identity in the face of almost overpowering odds. The film contrasts the South America Land Rights Indigenous peoples / First Nations peoples Political Activists Resistance Social Conflict Tempus de Baristas 1993 100' Film Directed by David MacDougall . This film depicts the characters, and social dilemmas of three generations of Sardinian mountain shepherds. Although born roughly 20 years apart, Franchiscu (62), his son Pietro (17) and their Western Europe Herding Social Change Family / Kinship Rural Smell the Roses 2003 28' Film Directed by Julie Milling . Christiania is a self-governing community in the heart of Copenhagen set up by squatters at the height of 1970s idealism. Faced with extinction or urban redevelopment, residents struggle to redefine a fading ideology. Scandinavia Alternative culture Urban The Poet's Salary 2008 59' Film Directed by Eric Wittersheim Alexandre Francois . For the first time in many years, on the little island of Motalava in Vanuatu, a new song will be composed in the island's ancestors’ language, the language of god Quat, and become part of the Melanesia Music / Ethnomusicology Linguistics / Language Informant-researcher relationship The Day the Sun Fell 2015 78' Film Special Interest Directed by Aya Domenig . Swiss-Japanese filmmaker Aya Domenig, the granddaughter of a doctor on duty for the Red Cross during the 1945 atomic bombing of Hiroshima, approaches the experience of her deceased grandfather by South-East Asia History Memory Health / Health care / Healing War / Conflict / Reconciliation Cuyagua - the Saint With Two Faces 1987 56' Film 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 Asante Market Women 1982 52' Film Directed by Claudia Milne . As retailers, wholesalers, and negotiators, Asante women of Ghana dominate the huge Kumasi Central Market amid the laughter, argument, colour and music. The crew of this Disappearing World film have West Africa Marriage Trade Gender Role and Identity Little Waterfall 2002 52' Film Directed by Joshka Wessels . Shallalah Saghirah ('Little Waterfall') is a small village of about 20 households located in the Khanasser valley, in north Syria. The village has no electricity and still uses an ancient ganat Middle and Near East Infrastructure / Transport Material Culture Development projects Dream Girls 1993 50' Film Directed by Kim Longinotto Jano Williams . This award-winning film opens a door into the amazing world of the Takarazuka Revue, the all-female theatre troupe in Japan. Thousands of young women aspire to perform in the Revue’s glitzy musical Central Asia and Far East Public Figure Popular Culture Dance / Theatre / Performance Gender Role and Identity Native 2002 29' Film Directed by Rachel Greenwood . Through his clothing, a young South African fashion designer of mixed race urges freedom and unity in post-apartheid South Africa. His message is reaching not only his fellow South Africans, but also Southern Africa Collective / Community identity Material Culture Ravi and Bhajay 2002 26' Film Directed by Rachel Webster . Street boys Ravi and Bhajay lead a tough life on the pavements of Mumbai in India. To get away from it, they visit the nearby holy city of Ujjain with the film-maker. But the call of life on the streets is still strong. South Asia Children / Young people Squatter Settlements / Homelessness Urban Easy Life 1996 30' Film 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 The Thompsons 1996 29' Film Directed by Andy Lawrence . In 1996 the troubles in Northern Ireland continued to the sound of beating drums and marching feet. This is the story of a Protestant family in rural Ulster and their fight to remain British and free from Irish rule. British-Irish Isles War / Conflict / Reconciliation Song Family Village Takes a Bride 2009 27' Film Directed by Zhifang Song Gary Seaman Steven Rousso-Schindler . Most weddings in the village still reflect traditional patterns of patrilineal descent and patrilocal residence. The bride leaves her natal home to marry into her husband’s village, where she is a Central Asia and Far East Marriage Family / Kinship Gender Role and Identity Social Change Gule Wamkulu: The Great Dance 1991 37' Film Directed by Charles Namondwe . Performed by the Chewa secret societies, Gule Wamkulu is a form of masked dance which takes place at male initiation ceremonies, funerals, and other major celebrations. Acting as a medium between the Southern Africa Dance / Theatre / Performance Ritual Trobriand Cricket: An Ingenious Response to Colonialism 1974 50' Film Directed by Gary Kildea Jerry Leach . The film documents the transformation by the Trobriand Islanders of the game of cricket, first introduced by British missionaries into a highly distinctive political ritual. Shot in 1973-1974, Melanesia Sport Colonialism / Postcolonialism Political Activists Growing Pains 2006 41' Film Directed by Cecilie Øien . Júlia is a young Angolan woman who lives in a poor neighborhood of Lisbon, together with her daughter Magui. The story of how she arrived in Portugal and what happen to her afterwards is dramatic, Western Mediterranean Family / Kinship Intergenerational relations Migration Processes 2016 23' Film Directed by Adriana Ferrarese . Like every year, Corigliano Calabro, a small village in the south of Italy, celebrates Easter: from the investiture of a man to embody Jesus during a night procession, to the passionate debates for South-East Europe Religion / Belief / Faith Festivals / Carnival A Saint from New York 1995 30' Film Directed by Line Hatland . Dorothy Day, ex-communist, anarchist, single mother and co-founder of the widespread ‘Catholic Worker’ movement — died in New York in 1980. Soon after the Claretian Fathers started a campaign North America Alternative culture Religion / Belief / Faith A Chair: in six parts 2013 42' Film 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 Q2P 2006 55' Film Directed by Paromita Vohra . Q2P is a film about toilets and the city. It sifts through the dream of Mumbai as a future Shanghai and searches for public toilets, watching who has to queue to pee. As the film observes who has South Asia Gender Role and Identity Urban Socioeconomic conditions Tyres 2013 30' Film Directed by Kyaw Myo Lwin . A recycling workshop in South Okkalapa in Myanmar’s former capital of Yangon is a place where discarded tyres are transformed from their original shape and use, and are re-purposed to new uses. South-East Asia Material Culture Labour Infrastructure / Transport Tablas and Drum Machines: Afghan Music in California 2001 58' Film Directed by John Baily . Ethnomusicologist John Baily visits Fremont, California, the new home of the large community of exiled Afghans. He is joined by Kabuli master-musician, Ustad Asif Mahmoud, who plans to open a small North America Music / Ethnomusicology Education / Knowledge transmission Refugees / Displaced populations Beautiful Dachau 2008 30' Film Directed by Alan Marcus . Beautiful Dachau is an experimental documentary that observes streams of visitors to the Dachau concentration camp, now a popular tourist attraction. 800,000 people visit the site annually. Western Europe History Tourism / Travel / Pilgrimage War / Conflict / Reconciliation Hulme Homes for Hulme People 1992 23' Film Directed by Aunund Austena . Summer '92 and Hulme, a densely populated and culturally diverse area of inner city Manchester, is being demolished for the second time in 30 years, this time in consultation with local residents and British-Irish Isles Urban Adhiambo - Born in the Evening 2001 66' Film Directed by Ruth Prince Wenzel Geißler Ruth Tuchtenhagen . ‘Adhiambo’ means ‘the one born in the evening’ in the language of the Luo of western Kenya. The film follows NyaSeme, a married mother and grandmother in her late 30s, during the last month East Africa Children / Young people Health / Health care / Healing A Tibetan New Year 1987 45' Film Directed by Jon Jerstad . This outstanding documentary is placed in Northern India among a group of Tibetan refugees. They celebrate the New Year, following a ritual of their religion, Bonpo, which is older than Buddhism. South Asia Religion / Belief / Faith Ritual Karam in Jaipur 2001 54' Film Directed by David MacDougall . This third film in the Doon School quintet follows the main protagonist of 'With Morning Hearts' into the next phase of his life in Jaipur House, one of the five main houses of the school. There he South Asia Children / Young people Education / Knowledge transmission Sport Between Memories 2015 34' Film Directed by Martha-Cecilia Dietrich . Eudosia is still searching for her husband’s remains in the highlands of Ayacucho; Lucero has been in prison for 25 years now for the crime of terrorism against the Peruvian state; since 2009 the South America Memory War / Conflict / Reconciliation Orania 2012 94' Film Directed by Tobias Lindner . Orania is situated in South Africa's barren Northern Cape province. All of its 800 inhabitants are white Afrikaners. They live here on private property which was bought in 1991. People of other Southern Africa Race / Racism / Antiracism Collective / Community identity Social Conflict Uncanny Strangers 2009 46' Film Directed by David Picard . Uncanny Strangers has been filmed in a fishing village in the South-West of Madagascar. Through a series of everyday life episodes the film provides insight into the relationships between the East Africa Tourism / Travel / Pilgrimage Development projects Environment Runaway 2001 87' Film Directed by Kim Longinotto Ziba Mir-Hosseini . This film is set in a refuge for girls in Tehran and follows the stories of five girls who come here. These girls, in leaving a situation that has become intolerable, show incredible courage and Middle and Near East Children / Young people Social Change Gender Role and Identity Seed and Earth 1989 36' Film Directed by Lina Fruzzetti Alfred Guzzetti Ned Johnston Ákos Östör . Seed on Earth is a film about everyday life in rural Bangladesh (village of Janta, near Bishnupur town). It follows the daily schedule of two families and observes the complementary and difference of South Asia Rural Family / Kinship Gender Role and Identity Paradise Bent. Boys will be Girls in Samoa 1999 51' Film Directed by Heather Croall . Paradise Bent is a fascinating and entertaining film that tells the story of the Samoan fa'afafines: boys who are raised as girls and take on the domestic duties performed by women around the home, Melanesia Gender Role and Identity Sex / Sexuality Tayuban: Dancing the Spirit in Java 1996 30' Film Directed by Felicia Hughes-Freeland . Once a year a ritual is held in a Javanese village. After a distribution of food, men dance with professional female dancers. Their allegedly sexual ethos makes these ‘tayuban’ unacceptable as South-East Asia Ritual Dance / Theatre / Performance Sex / Sexuality Gender Role and Identity Rough Aunties 2008 103' Film Directed by Kim Longinotto . Jackie, Mildred, Eureka and Thuli are the women behind Bobbi Bear, a nonprofit organization based in Durban, South Africa, that counsels sexually abused children and works to bring their abusers to Southern Africa Socioeconomic conditions Children / Young people Development projects Gaea Girls 2000 106' Film Directed by Kim Longinotto Jano Williams . A film about courage, transformation and dreams in the extraordinary world of Japanese women's wrestling. Gaea Girls focuses on the hopes and fears of the beleaguered Gaea Japan squad, whose Central Asia and Far East Gender Role and Identity Sport A Life with Slate 2006 59' Film Directed by Dipesh Kharel . Alampu is a beautiful and exceedingly remote village in Nepal. The majority of the settlers there are Thami people, one of the indigenous groups of Nepal. More than 90 percent of them have been South Asia Labour Socioeconomic conditions Wives 2017 85' Film RAI Basil Wright Directed by Lisbet Holtedahl . Alhajji Ibrahim is an Islamic scholar who has served as judge at the Sultanate of Ngaoundéré in Northern Cameroon for 46 years. The film follows Alhajji during the last years of his life, focusing Rain in the Mirror 2012 48' Film Directed by Nilanjan Bhattachary Kanchan Mukhopadhayay . Dorji Bhutia, a Buddhist monk and a reputed mask-maker with supernatural powers of bringing or stopping rain chose a self-determined death at the age of eighty-six. Dorji leaves his mystic image South Asia Religion / Belief / Faith Children / Young people Education / Knowledge Transmission Intergenerational relations Silk, Muthappar and VHS: Portraits from South India 1997 63' Film Directed by Ulrich Grossenbacher Damaris Luethi . The documentary, filmed during ethnographic field research, shows three portraits of ‘ordinary’ personalities — Mala, a young weaver sharing a one-bedroom house with nine siblings; Santa Cruz, South Asia Labour Everyday Life Film / Photography / Mass media Los Guardianes del Mayab 2012 34' Film Directed by Jaime Magaña . Luis Puc is a Yucatecan Mayan jmen (shaman). He dies and travels to the dimension of the seven heavens where he meets the báalam (guardians). Through them, he receives healing powers and wisdom, Central America Indigenous peoples / First Nations peoples Shamans and Shamanism Born 2008 56' Film Directed by Andy Lawrence Judith Kurutuac . *Our hope is to create a magical-real environment in which to go beyond the limits of our historical perspective on childbirth and its culturally bound rites, and to demonstrate an emotionally British-Irish Isles Health / Health care / Healing Family / Kinship Children / Young people Tuktu 1985 47' Film Directed by Graham Johnston . Tuktu is the Kuvanmiit Eskimo word for caribou. The film traces the early evolution of Ambler, founded almost 30 years ago on the Kobuk River in Alaska. Change and development mark life now in this North America Animals Social Change Letter to the Dead 2002 62' Film Directed by Andre Iteanu Eytan Kapon . The film is about the encounter between tradition and modernity. In a small village of Papua New Guinea three exceptional men rival with each other in the field of rituals and artistic creation in Melanesia Social Change Art / Artists / Artisans Death Shooting Freetown 2011 29' Film Directed by Kieran Hanson . A decade since Sierra Leone's devastating civil war, from the ashes rises a new dawn of creativity in audio-visual media. Inspired by Jean Rouch's ‘shared anthropology’ and ‘ethno-fiction’, West Africa Film / Photography / Mass media War / Conflict / Reconciliation Reflexivity Thanks Be to God 2008 31' Film Directed by Patrícia Pedrosa . Four Christian women work and live in a Muslim and patriarchic world. The ‘Sisters of the Consolata Missionaries’ are building a new library in Empada, a small village in the south of West Africa Religion / Belief / Faith 1700 Metres from the Future 1990 86' Film Directed by Ulla Rasmussen . Ulla Boje Rasmussen portrays with humour and empathy life in the small Faroese village of Gásadalur, inhabited by just 16 adults and a 9-year old boy. The film gives a unique insight into the Scandinavia Land Rights Infrastructure / Transport Body Games - Capoeira and Ancestry 2014 87' Film 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 The Internet Bride 2004 29' Film Directed by Ellie Ford . Cali in Colombia is celebrated for salsa music and beautiful women and is also the base of the Internet Bride agency, 'Latin Best' with 900 women on its files. Accompanying the British and American South America Marriage Internet Reclaiming the Forest 1987 39' Film Directed by Paul Henley Georges Drion . National governments, itinerant gold-miners, and indigenous inhabitants compete for control of an area of the South American rainforest. The film shows the potential conflict between the interests South America Land Rights Indigenous peoples / First Nations peoples Social Change Social Conflict Bridewealth for a Goddess 2000 72' Film Directed by Chris Owen . A unique insight into a secret spirit cult among the Kawelka people in the Western Highlands of Papua New Guinea. After a dream, a clan leader initiates a long and complex 'work’, when he and a Melanesia Ritual Marriage Possession Without Fathers or Husbands 1995 26' Film Directed by Hua Cai . The Na are an ethnic group in south-east China. Their particularity is that all the members of each household are consanguineous relatives; their social organisation is absolutely matrilineal and as South-East Asia Family / Kinship Collective / Community identity Gender Role and Identity Sex / Sexuality The Most Admired Man 2002 29' Film Directed by Julia Berg . 'Wise'? 'Serene'? 'A Sage'? Mythologized as the Daoist physician from the Jade Dragon Mountain of Lijiang Province in southwest China , Dr Ho receives hundreds of visitors in search of the 'Real South-East Asia Public Figure Tourism / Travel / Pilgrimage Consulting Embah Wali 2000 42' Film Directed by Patsy Asch . These companion films (ANU Indonesia Series, DVD $ examine the philosophy and ritual practices of the followers of a holy man popularly known as Embah Wali. The movement, centred in Blitar, East South-East Asia Ritual Dance / Theatre / Performance Home from the Hill 1984 60' Film Directed by Molly Dineen . Anthropology’s relationship with colonialism has been discussed widely. Yet the ethnography of the colonial service remains largely unexplored on film. This entertaining documentary shows, not British-Irish Isles Colonialism / Postcolonialism Depending on Heaven 1988 56' Film Directed by Peter Entell . The film is in two parts and focuses on the Mongols living in the Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region of China. Part One (28 minutes) follows the life of a nomadic Mongol family on their yearly journey Central Asia and Far East Environment Nomads and Nomadism Herding Everyday Life There is Nothing Wrong with my Uncle 2012 78' Film Directed by Sylvie Bringas Dul Johnson . Nigerian writer Dul Johnson returns to Tarok land to observe the local death rituals and the record of the Tarok ways of dealing with grief and honoring departed. This film provides a rare and West Africa Death Religion / Belief / Faith Ritual The Condor and the Bull 1989 56' Film Directed by Peter Getzels Harriet Gordon . Villagers from remote hamlets high in the Andes join together with people from the roadside village of Ocongate for the Peruvian Independence Day celebration. Festivities require that a wild condor South America Animals Festivals / Carnival Ritual Western Outposts - Faroese Cinematic Narratives 2014 140' Film Directed by Ulla Boje Rasmussen . WESTERN OUTPOSTS - Faroese Cinematic Narratives is a DVD box set containing newly digitised versions of Ulla Buje Rasmussen's 1990s films about Faroese life, a 2015 epilogfilm and a 32 page booklet Scandinavia Land Rights Infrastructure / Transport Everyday Life Since the Company Came 2001 52' Film Directed by Russel Hawkins . Set in the South Pacific, in a remote Solomon Islands village, 'Since the Company Came' is the story of a community coming to terms with social, cultural and ecological disintegration. When village Melanesia Land Rights Indigenous peoples / First Nations peoples Social Conflict Socioeconomic conditions Changes 2010 30' Film 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 André and Nándi 2000 30' Film Directed by Charlotte Grégoire . Hungarian-born André Reinitz only discovered his Jewish identity when he moved to Brussels at the age of ten. Since then, in spite of the silence of his parents, he has become involved in the Jewish Western Europe Eastern Europe and Baltic States Religion / Belief / Faith Music / Ethnomusicology Life Story / Life History Arnav At Six 2012 28' Film Directed by David MacDougall . Filmed as a collaborative project with Arnav Koshy in 2008, this film explores the mind and activities of an intelligent and observant child of six. Arnav is fascinated by the geology, plant-life, South Asia Children / Young people Education / Knowledge Transmission Lessons from the Tiger 2010 22' Film Directed by Ife Olatunji . A brief glimpse into the Foundation Fior Di Loto girls' school, this film explores the competing ideas of traditional and contemporary womanhood in Rajasthan, India. Four girls introduce us to the South Asia Gender Role and Identity Children / Young people Education / Knowledge Transmission The Pathans 1980 52' Film Directed by André Singer Andy Harries . There are twelve million Pathans. Bound by a common language, a common heritage and the unifying force of Islam, these proud and independent people do not acknowledge the geographical boundary which South Asia War / Conflict / Reconciliation Social Organisation Gender Role and Identity Unity through Culture 2011 69' Film Directed by Christian Suhr Ton Otto . Soanin Killangit is determined to unite the people and attract international tourism through the revival of culture on Baluan Island, Manus, Papua New Guinea in the South Pacific. He organizes the Melanesia Festivals / Carnival Social Conflict Collective / Community identity The Light on Mykines Island 1992 66' Film Directed by Ulla Rasmussen . Ulla Boje Rasmussen's at once historical and contemporary documentary from 1992 about the life and nature of the sparsely populated and spellbound island of Mykines. With outstanding footage she Scandinavia Everyday Life Social Organisation Rural The Sweet Life and All That Goes With It 2002 29' Film Directed by Anne Schiltz . Although the Saxons arrived in Transylvania, Romania over 800 years ago, they have retained a strong sense of their distinctive identity and still speak German. After the Revolution of 1989, most South-East Europe Collective / Community identity Travellers / Roma The Wodaabe 1988 52' Film Directed by Leslie Woodhead David Wason . *Is the Wodaabe world disappearing? How are we to place the painted male faces? The very considerable success of this film is the ways it answers these questions.* J. Picto The Wodaabe follow Central Africa Herding Animals Everyday Life Ritual To Live With Herds 1972 90' Film Directed by David MacDougall . The Jie are semi-nomadic pastoral people living in North-eastern Uganda, who are striving to maintain their way of life in the face of unsympathetic government policy, and, at the time of filming, a dry-season famine. East Africa Nomads and Nomadism Disasters Law and Legislation / Bureaucracy Pepsi War 1992 30' Film Directed by Charlie Clay . The post-colonial period in Papua New Guinea has seen resurgence in tribal warfare. Pepsi War follows the story of a fight between two clans, which developed from a dispute over cola bottles. Melanesia War / Conflict / Reconciliation Colonialism / Postcolonialism Koriams Law and the Dead who Govern 2005 110' Film Directed by Gary Kildea Andrea Simon . In ‘Koriam's Law’ Australian anthropologist Andrew Lattas meets his match in philosopher-informant Peter Avarea of Matong village, Pomio, Papua New Guinea. Motivated by their lively dialogue the Melanesia Religion / Belief / Faith Collective / Community identity Possession Diya 2001 55' Film Directed by Judith MacDougall . A diya is a small terra cotta oil lamp used throughout India in Hindu ceremonies. The film follows the life history of an object through the every day experience of people who make, sell and use it South Asia Trade Material Culture Religion / Belief / Faith Art / Artists / Artisans Ignacio's Legacy 2016 52' Film Special Interest Directed by Titus Fossgard-Moser . Between 1960 and 1992, the acclaimed documentary filmmaker Brian Moser made four films concerning indigenous peoples of northwest Amazonia: "Piraparana" (1960), "War of the Gods" South America Film / Photography / Mass media Social Change Reflexivity Indigenous peoples / First Nations peoples Raised by Humans 2010 25' Film Directed by Karlia Campbell . 'Raised by Humans' follows two dogs with difficult life histories as volunteers from the Royal Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals try to find families to adopt them in Stockport, British-Irish Isles Animals Development projects Faith 2010 30' Film Directed by Insa Langhorst . Together with a Pentecostal youth group, teenagers Colin and Salo are on a mission trip to East Germany preaching the word of God. On the streets of Wismar they experience the highs and lows of what Western Europe Children / Young people Religion / Belief / Faith Je ne suis pas moi-même 2009 50' Film Directed by Alba Mora Anna Sanmartí . Shot in Cameroon and Brussels, 'Je ne suis pas moi-même' examines the complex network surrounding the international market of African antiquities, and the contradictions in a European art market Central Africa Western Europe Art / Artists / Artisans Trade A Two Day Fair 2009 60' Film Directed by Anjali Monteiro KP Jayasankar . Nothing in the world will last – it is but a two day fair” sings Mura Lala, drawing inspiration from the Sufi traditions of Sant Kabir and Abdul Lateef Bhitai. He is accompanied on the double The Shrimpers 2008 30' Film Directed by Austin Paterek . For the past 10 years the shrimping industry in United States has been on a steady decline. Estimates show that only 15 percent of the original fleet is still in operation, due to overseas North America Hunting / Gathering / Fishing Trade The Bracewells 2000 49' Film Directed by Amanda Ravetz . In the late 1990s, when BSE (also known as "Mad Cow Disease") was conclusively linked to the fatal brain disorder vCJD, a number of British farmers went out of business whilst others faced British-Irish Isles Rural Agriculture / Farming Animals Across the Tracks - The Vlach Gypsies in Hungary 1988 52' Film Directed by John Blake . *'Across the Tracks' is a gripping film for the general viewer. It is beautifully filmed in observational style (lingering scenes of muddy courtyards) with enough subtitled interview material to Central Europe Animals Labour Travellers / Roma Harpoons and Heartache 1998 28' Film Directed by Bessie Morris . Bessie Morris, a Greek-American, portrays the romantic relationships between Greek men and women tourists. She explores the story of Vassilis, a young male bartender in the tourist town of Hania, Crete. South-East Europe Tourism / Travel / Pilgrimage Gender Role and Identity Love A Balinese Trance Séance 1980 46' Film Directed by Timothy Asch Linda Connor . Jero Tapakan is ‘entered’ by deities and spirits who converse with her clients. Unbeknown to her, they wish to contact the spirit of their dead son to learn the cause of his death and his wishes South-East Asia Death Possession Ritual The Head Cornerstone 1992 37' Film Directed by Ruth Hammill . Griffiths takes his responsibilities seriously and works very hard as a taxi driver in Negril, Jamaica, to support his family. His sense of obligation extends to his siblings, his ageing father and Caribbean Islands Squatter Settlements / Homelessness Socioeconomic conditions They Say We’re All Winners 2002 32' Film Directed by Mari Finnestad . The Zimbabwean girls' team comes to Norway to take part in the world's largest kids' football tournament. The film questions the outcome of this well-intentioned cultural exchange because some of the Scandinavia Tourism / Travel / Pilgrimage Sport Collective / Community identity Shinjuku Boys 1997 54' Film Directed by Kim Longinotto Jano Williams . A film about love and gender. This film is set in the New Marilyn night club in Tokyo where all the hosts are women who have decided to live as men. They make their living by working in a club with Central Asia and Far East Gender Role and Identity Sex / Sexuality Love Untouched Rock 2008 28' Film Directed by James Vybiral . ‘Untouched Rock’ follows a British climbing expedition to Greenland where six young men hope to establish new routes on the mountains of 'the un-named valley'. North America Children / Young people Sport Fish Have Feelings Too 2001 23' Film Directed by Tom Rice . For Jack and Stan, two men from Manchester, koi carp have become something more than an obsession. Not only have their pets become a source of fame and distinction, but of affection and mutually British-Irish Isles Animals NGAT IS DEAD: STUDYING MORTUARY TRADITIONS 2007 59' Film Directed by Christian Suhr Nielsen Ton Otto . A film about how anthropological knowledge is developed through active participation in traditional exchange ceremonies on the small island of Baluan in the South Pacific. The film follows the Melanesia Death Ritual Informant-researcher relationship Social Conflict Law and War in Rural Kenya 2010 64' Film Directed by Suzette Heald . In 1998, a new movement swept through Kuria, in south western Kenya with dramatic effect. Cattle raiding fuelled by the increasing presence of guns had led to a situation of total insecurity, with East Africa War / Conflict / Reconciliation Law and Legislation / Bureaucracy Earning a Crust 2009 28' Film Directed by Elisa Contreras . Through their experiences, Uncle Isidro (a horse dealer) and Jeremo (a scrap collector) illustrate traditional gypsy occupations in the south of Spain, as well as the obstacles facing their Western Mediterranean Travellers / Roma Labour The Wedding Camels 1976 108' Film Directed by Judith MacDougall David MacDougall . Also about individuals from the Turkana in north-western Kenya (see 'Lorang’s Way' and 'A Wife Among Wives'), this film chronicles a series of events which surround the marriage of Lorang’s East Africa Family / Kinship Marriage Animals Herding The Boy From Allison Street 1998 30' Film Directed by Caroline Allward . Wayne has left school, sweet 16, disillusioned, with no qualifications. He is briefly distracted by Becka, the girl next door, and the discovery of his father's porno movie. But all he really wants British-Irish Isles Children / Young people Love Self Defence 2002 28' Film Directed by María Elena Planas . With the Shining Path guerilla movement in decline, the government in Peru set up a Commission for Peace and Reconciliation to hear the testimonies of those who had suffered in the war. Framed by the South America War / Conflict / Reconciliation Memory Business as Usual 2002 27' Film Directed by Lucy Pardee . Everyone knows about Ground Zero in New York, but have you bought into the memory? Big Mike, Tyrone and the other street vendors will sell you part of the disaster whilst offering you their views on North America Trade Memory Disasters The Meo 1972 52' Film Directed by Brian Moser Chris Curling . Over the last three thousand years the Meo (Miao or Hmong) have migrated south from north and central China to avoid oppression and protect their way of life. Today they live in scattered mountain South-East Asia War / Conflict / Reconciliation Shamans and Shamanism Ritual Social Organisation Rural Those Who Don’t Work Don’t Make Love 1998 30' Film Directed by Cristina Grasseni . An observational documentary about dairy farmers in the Italian Alps. Caught between pride for tradition and the pressure for modernisation, the story of one family is told through the eyes of Western Mediterranean Agriculture / Farming Social Change Even Asteroids Are Not Alone 2018 17' Film Directed by Jón Bjarki Magnússon . Eve Online is a computer game in which players mine, trade and fight their way through computer-generated galaxies. Whilst computer game aficionados are often depicted as isolated, this game is Internet Holy Hustlers 2009 53' Film Directed by Richard Werbner . Charismatic, street-wise young men, living in Botswana’s capital, command the prophetic domain in Eloyi, their Apostolic faith-healing church, at a time of escalating crisis. Bitter, sinful Southern Africa Religion / Belief / Faith Urban Possession A Town in Sicily 2015 120' Film Directed by Toni de Bromhead . Castellammare is a 'high-density Mafia' seaside town. Local government is infiltrated, its economy is stagnant and there is no future for its youth. A group of angry young Sicilians now wish to South-East Europe Political Activists Leaving Greece 2013 79' Film Directed by Anna Brass . When entering the EU for the first time, a refugee must submit an application for asylum. So much is clear. Less well known, however is the fact that for 90% of all refugees, the Aegean is the Western Mediterranean Children / Young people Migration Love Ian Gleadell: A Falkland Farmer 1987 34' Film Directed by Bob Edwards Alastair Kenneil . The 1982 war between Britain and Argentina brought the Falkland or Malwinas Islands into the news headlines. This film is less spectacular: It shows the way of life of one inhabitant of this South America Animals Agriculture / Farming Awareness 2011 67' Film Directed by David MacDougall Judith MacDougall . Filmed in South India, Andhra Pradesh, at Rishi Valley School, founded by the 20th Century Indian thinker Krishnamurti, 'Awareness' explores the sensibilities of two groups of young Indian teenagers, South Asia Education / Knowledge transmission Children / Young people Umbanda 1977 52' Film Directed by Stephen Cross . Umbanda is a syncretic religious movement, combining elements from orthodox Catholicism with submerged African and indigenous Indian spiritual beliefs. In spite of past attempts to suppress it, South America Possession Health / Health care / Healing Religion / Belief / Faith Ritual Lifelibrary 2007 22' Film Directed by Amanda Hill . Library spacescape. quiet, history, dreams, wisdom, structure, anomaly, affection, preservation, creation, galaxies, distraction and contemplation. An exploration of a changing world withinwithout British-Irish Isles Education / Knowledge transmission Archival material / Museum displays Casado's Legacy 2009 49' Film Directed by Valentina Bonifacio . For 100 years Maskoy people worked in Carlos Casado’s tannin factory. The factory, which had been founded on their land, based its production on the exploitation of local natural resources. After South America Political Activists Labour Land Rights Where the Clouds End 2014 52' Film Directed by Wanphrang Diengdoh . “My late great grandfather was a Bengali who came to Shillong in the early 1900s - long before the present political border divided the lands.” After the creation of borders between India and South Asia Colonialism / Postcolonialism Race / Racism / Antiracism Collective / Community identity Healer on the Street 2003 28' Film Directed by Joceny Pinhheiro . During the day, Isnar is a community paramedic who works in the local clinic and runs an arts and drugs rehabilitation centre for young people in Fortaleza on the coast of Northeast Brazil. But by South America Health / Health care / Healing Ritual The Medium is the Masseuse: a Balinese Massage 1983 31' Film Directed by Timothy Asch Linda Connor Patsy Asch . Jero uses massage and traditional medicines to treat Ida Bagus, who suffers from sterility and seizures. Through her treatment and her words, Jero reveals her conceptions of the human body, the South-East Asia Health / Health care / Healing Reproduction (biology) The Temple in the Sea 2008 26' Film Directed by Theo Youngstein . ‘The Temple in the Sea’ looks at ritual and religious practice at a well-known Hindu shrine and its associated cremation grounds in Central Trinidad. Documenting the daily life of the Temple, and Caribbean Islands Ritual Hope, Despair and Laughter: A circus project in Palestine 2007 27' Film Directed by Ester Hertog . Filmed in Dheisheh refugee camp in the West bank, this film is about a circus summer-camp dedicated to bring laughter and hope for Palestinian children. Children are taught all sorts of activities Middle and Near East Development projects Dance / Theatre / Performance Children / Young people Rub’el Kurus 1997 45' Film Directed by Carlos Flores . During the 1980s the Guatemalan army launched ruthless counter-insurgency campaigns against indigenous communities, killing or displacing thousands. This film documents the struggle of a group of Central America Indigenous peoples / First Nations peoples War / Conflict / Reconciliation Jero on Jero: A Balinese Trance Séance Observed 1980 16' Film Directed by Timothy Asch Linda Connor Patsy Asch . For the first time Jero sees herself on film as she watches 'A Balinese Trance Séance'. Her spontaneous comments provide insights into her feelings while possessed, her understanding of her South-East Asia Possession Reflexivity Health / Health care / Healing Behind the Screen 2012 35' Film Directed by Aung Nwai Htway . A son dissects his parents’ marriage – they were film icons in 1960s Myanmar. It turns out the heartrending scenes they acted out on the silver screen are a pretty accurate reflection of their South-East Asia Film / Photography / Mass media Family / Kinship Memory Welcome Valentine 2017 2017 16' Film 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 Afghan Exodus 1980 52' Film Directed by André Singer . When Granada Television visited Afghanistan to make the award-winning Disappearing World 'The Kirghiz', they were a proud, independent, nomadic people who made their living by rearing herds of yaks South Asia Refugees / Displaced populations War / Conflict / Reconciliation Migration The Heavenly Court in Song Family Village 2009 30' Film Directed by Zhifang Song Gary Seaman Steven Rousso-Schindler . Religious life in the village is highly gendered, with female shamans dominating most religious activities. These shamanesses and their gods are organised as a “court”, which expresses a Central Asia and Far East Gender Role and Identity Shamans and Shamanism Ritual The Bastard Sings the Sweetest Song 2012 71' Film Directed by Christy Garland . 'The Bastard Sings the Sweetest Song', using direct cinema style, introduces us to the Smith family in Georgetown, Guyana, where both Muscle, and his mother Mary, each struggle to fight the family South America Elderly people Family / Kinship Intergenerational relations Ghetto PSA 2016 15' Film Special Interest Directed by Rossella Schillaci . Jacob arrived in Italy alone from French Guinea when he was 11 years old. Today he is 27, and hip hop music is his whole world: it is his way to express dreams, hopes and frustrations, and to not Western Europe Music / Ethnomusicology Migration Education / Knowledge Transmission Tenonde’i - a Beautiful Future 2008 30' Film Directed by Nadja Marin . In a village inside the world’s fifth largest and tough city, São Paulo, a young Guaraní created a children’s choir to raise money for his community. Filled with beautiful sounds, the film is a South America Indigenous peoples / First Nations peoples Children / Young people Going Back Home 1992 35' Film Directed by Catarina Alves-Costa . For those who live in the city, each and every summer is about going back to Arga, the village in Northern Portugal, which they left to find work. For the few who have stayed, their return brings Western Mediterranean Migration Memory A Donation to the Museum 2015 25' Film Directed by Teri F. Brewer . Human remains from the California Channel Islands were donated to an English city museum nearly a century ago. More recently research began into how they came to be there, and whose remains they North America Western Europe Archaeology Archival material / Museum displays Hold Me Tight Let Me Go 2007 99' Film Directed by Kim Longinotto . *The main reason I wanted to shoot is that when the kids misbehave, the teachers don’t punish them but try to find out why they are acting in such a way. The driving idea behind the school is to British-Irish Isles Children / Young people Education / Knowledge Transmission Health / Health care / Healing The Carrot and the Stick 1988 44' Film Directed by Susi Arnott . When they retired from selling insurance and teaching, John and Irene Brown volunteered to work overseas under a British Aid programme. They were sent to expand a marketing project aimed at Melanesia Development projects Agriculture / Farming Rural Doon School Chronicles 2000 140' Film Directed by David MacDougall . David MacDougall's long term visual study completed. The Doon School, located in Dehra Dun in Uttaranchal, is perhaps the most famous boys’ boarding school in India. Although it has sometimes been South Asia Education / Knowledge transmission Children / Young people Promise and Unrest 2010 79' Film Directed by Alan Grossman Áine O’Brien . Separated from her daughter Gracelle at 7 months, Noemi Barredo left the Philippines for work in Malaysia before arriving in Ireland in 2000. Filmed over a five-year period, 'Promise and Unrest' is South-East Asia British-Irish Isles Family / Kinship Labour Migration Linguistics / Language Journey into Europe 2015 122' Film Directed by Akbar Ahmed . In Journey into Europe, Akbar Ahmed, a world-renowned anthropologist, Islamic scholar, and filmmaker who the BBC has called “the world’s leading authority on contemporary Islam,” explores Islam Central Europe Western Europe South-East Europe History Religion / Belief / Faith Collective / Community identity Barbara and Her Friends in Candombleland 1997 52' Film Directed by Sylvie Timbert Carmen Opipari . In the divine Afro Brazilian cult Candomble is an initiation religion centred around possession. The filmmakers concentrate on children who introduce and guide us to this world. The children play South America Children / Young people Dance / Theatre / Performance Possession Ritual Distant Temple 2002 90' Film Directed by János Tari . The last orthodox synagogue in Makó was renewed and inaugurated in 2002. The little temple, as they call it, is more than hundred years old and represents the link between the Jews who emigrated Middle and Near East Migration Religion / Belief / Faith We Don't Need A Grave 2014 27' Film . 'We Don't Need a Grave' attempts to show how the people who choose Shizenso rather than the typical family grave try to accept one's death. Shizenso is a natural mortuary practice that has no Central Asia and Far East Religion / Belief / Faith Death Ritual Hillside Beauties 2008 25' Film Directed by Julia Kurc . In a violent, marginalized and discriminated environment such as the favelas in Rio de Janeiro, women create a time and a space to construct their identities and their beauty. Marcella, Thuany and South America Gender Role and Identity Socioeconomic conditions Sifinja - The Iron Bride 2009 70' Film Directed by Valerie Haensch . A film about mobility, human creativity, and technology in a Sudanese truck community. The English Bedford-Lorry was introduced to Sudan in the late 1960s. Since then, local craftsmen technically North and Northeast Africa Infrastructure / Transport Material Culture Art / Artists / Artisans The Water Goddess and the Computer 1989 52' Film Directed by André Singer Steven Lansing . The film demonstrates how in Bali, development projects can threaten a carefully balanced ecological irrigation system that is maintained by temple priests. A biologist and an anthropologist look at South-East Asia Infrastructure / Transport Development projects Environment Salma 2013 90' Film Directed by Kim Longinotto . When Salma, a young Muslim girl in a south Indian village, was 13 years old, her family locked her up for 25 years, forbidding her to study and forcing her into marriage. During that time, words were South Asia Gender Role and Identity Social Norms Marriage Art / Artists / Artisans The School and the Village 1992 50' Film Directed by Heimo Lappalainen . Taiga Nomads is a film series about the Evenki (previously the Tungus), a nomadic people scattered all over eastern Siberia, and living under harsh conditions in the taiga ± an area predominated by Central Asia and Far East Nomads and Nomadism Everyday Life Divorce Iranian Style 1989 80' Film Directed by Kim Longinotto . This film is set in the Family Law Courts in central Tehran. The three main characters are Jamileh who punishes her husband for beating her, Ziba, a 16 year old girl who is trying to get a divorce Middle and Near East Marriage Gender Role and Identity Law and Legislation / Bureaucracy Family / Kinship Kutääy 2014 20' Film Directed by Isis Contreras . Fili, a 22-year-old Mixe, makes ornamental paper hot air balloons. Since this is an important tradition in his community, Fili —an expert in the art— is recognized and accepted. Yet, he is Central America Material Culture Social Change Intergenerational relations Mursi: Nitha 1991 52' Film Directed by Leslie Woodhead . The proper time for a man to go through the Age Set Ceremony, the nitha, is just as he reaches physical maturity. But many years may elapse from one nitha to the next, so it is inevitable that some North and Northeast Africa Ritual Social Conflict Gender Role and Identity Pushy Women 2001 23' Film Directed by Caro MacDonald . The modern Japanese woman has the world at her feet: she can pursue any career, wear whatever she likes, and spend her leisure time however she likes - even playing sumo. This film follows five young Central Asia and Far East Gender Role and Identity Sport Letters from Palestine 2011 35' Film Directed by Ludovica Fales . What if in your great-grandfather's letters there is a mystery your family doesn't want to talk about? In 1920 Angelo Levi Bianchini set out to Palestine on an Italian diplomatic mission and never Western Mediterranean Middle and Near East War / Conflict / Reconciliation Memory History Staging a Return 1994 30' Film Directed by Jakob Hogel . The Faroe Islands in the North Atlantic are a Danish dependency and for generations, young people have gone to Denmark to complete their studies. When they return for the summer, there is a tradition Scandinavia Dance / Theatre / Performance Agave is Life 2014 59' Film Directed by Meredith Dreiss David Brown . Agave is Life is a documentary film about mankind’s 10,000 year-long symbiotic alliance with the marvelous agave plant, from which tequila, Mexico’s iconic distilled spirit, is derived. The Central America Archaeobotany / Ethnobotany Food History A Sheepherder's Homecoming 1996 40' Film Directed by Allen Moore Louis Werner . This film documents a migrant worker’s experiences as a herder on a Nevada sheep ranch who then returns to his family in Mexico after a long absence to renew ties and find a job at home. It North America Central America Migration Labour The House-Opening 1980 45' Film Directed by Judith MacDougall . When Geraldine Kawanka’s husband died, she and her children left their house at Aurukun on Cape York Peninsula. In earlier times a bark house would have been burnt, but today a ‘house-opening’ Australia Ritual Indigenous peoples / First Nations peoples Death Ymako 1998 52' Film Directed by Laurent Van Lancker Robin Shuffield . Ymako Teatri, a theatre company based in the Ivory Coast, uses street theatre to question some contemporary West African problems. Their originality consists in using the ‘invisible theatre’ West Africa Dance / Theatre / Performance Health / Health care / Healing Social participation The Dancer and the Dance 1988 44' Film Directed by Felicia Hughes-Freeland . This film is an invitation to see Javanese palace dancing as performed in Yogyakarta, Indonesia, and to go beyond appearances to discover what the dance means to those who continue the tradition. In South-East Asia Dance / Theatre / Performance Enet Yapai - an Ambonwari Girl 2008 25' Film Directed by Daniela Vávrová . Enet Yapai was six years old when Vavrova met her for the first time in 2005 in Ambonwari village, East Sepik Province, Papua New Guinea. Between November 2007 and April 2008 she followed Enet and Melanesia Children / Young people Rural Everyday Life Link-up Diary 1997 86' Film Directed by David MacDougall . The filmmaker goes on the road with Link-Up, an organisation which re-unites Aboriginal families separated in earlier decades by the New South Wales government. As the film shows, being reunited Australia Resettlement Family / Kinship Collective / Community identity Indigenous peoples / First Nations peoples Breeding Cells 2009 39' Film Directed by Anna Straube . Breeding Cells is a film about a reproductive laboratory. A fertility clinic is a place where human reproduction is separated from sex and anatomized into bio/technological components. There Western Europe Reproduction (biology) Science / Technology Theatre Girls 1979 57' Film Directed by Kim Longinotto Claire Pollack . The “Theatre Girls Club” is a hostel for homeless, destitute and alcoholic women in Soho, London. It is run by six paid workers and it is the only hostel in London which takes any women at any British-Irish Isles Squatter Settlements / Homelessness Socioeconomic conditions Gender Role and Identity Every Good Marriage Begins With Tears 2007 63' Film Directed by Simon Chambers . East London Muslim girl Shahanara is changing form pink hot pants into a sari to meet her husband at the airport. She has only met him once before, when she was married in a union arranged by her London Family / Kinship Gender Role and Identity Marriage Intergenerational relations Social Norms Aeroplane Dance 1994 58' Film Directed by Trevor Graham . December 1942: US bomber ‘Little Eva’ was returning to base after a bombing raid over New Guinea. It hit a storm and crashed at Moonlight Creek in Australia’s far north. Aeroplane Dance Australia Indigenous peoples / First Nations peoples War / Conflict / Reconciliation Memory Kusum 2000 69' Film Directed by Jouko Aaltonen Antti Pakaslahti . Kusum is a 14-year-old Indian girl. She lives and attends school in Delhi. Kaushal, her father, drives a motorised rickshaw and works his fingers to the bone to support his family. Sumitra, Kusum’s South Asia Children / Young people Health / Health care / Healing Possession Other Europe 2011 75' Film Directed by Rossella Schillaci . What happens to African migrants once granted political refugee status? In Turin, a northern Italian city, an abandoned clinic has been squatted by more than 200 refugees since December 2008. Khaled, Western Mediterranean Migration Urban Squatter Settlements / Homelessness