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Films
9 Films
Festival Prize Category
“Special Interest”
x
films with a digital version
5
films hosted on Kanopy
1
short films
4
films available on demand
2
Region
Scandinavia
1
South America
3
South Asia
1
South-East Asia
1
West Africa
1
Western Europe
2
Western Mediterranean
1
Country
Brazil
1
Cameroon
1
Colombia
1
France
1
India
1
Italy
1
Japan
1
Norway
1
Peru
1
Spain
1
Keywords
Archaeology
1
Archival material / Museum displays
1
Art / Artists / Artisans
3
Dance / Theatre / Performance
1
Education / Knowledge Transmission
1
Environment
1
Essay film
1
Ethnofiction
2
Film / Photography / Mass media
2
Gender Role and identity
1
Health / Health care / Healing
1
History
1
Indigenous peoples / First Nations peoples
3
Informant-researcher relationship
1
Labour
1
Love
1
Material Culture
2
Memory
1
Migration
3
Music / Ethnomusicology
1
Reflexivity
3
Religion / Belief / Faith
1
Sex / Sexuality
1
Social Change
1
Social Conflict
1
War / Conflict / Reconciliation
2
Directors
Dietrich, Martha-Cecilia
1
Domenig, Aya
1
Fossgard-Moser, Titus
1
Mai, Nick
1
Marrero-Guillamon, Isaac
1
Schillaci, Rossella
1
Sharma, Aparna
1
Waage, Trond
1
van de Port, Mattijs
1
Series
not set
9
Country of production
Cameroon
1
Finland
1
France
1
India
1
Italy
1
Netherlands
1
Norway
2
Peru
1
Switzerland
1
United Kingdom
2
United States
1
Year of production
2015
1
2016
4
2018
2
2019
2
Festival Prize Category
Film list
The Day the Sun Fell
2015
78
‘
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
Ghetto PSA
2016
15
‘
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
Horror in the Andes
2019
33
‘
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
Ignacio’s Legacy
2016
52
‘
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
Knots and Holes. An Essay Film on the Life of Nets.
2018
74
‘
Special Interest
Directed by
Mattijs van de Port
.
A singular anthropological essay film that observes the various nets we find across different contexts in Bahia (from fishing nets to delicate nets of lace), and the emotions and sensations
South America
Essay film
Reflexivity
Love
Living with Boko Haram
2016
37
‘
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
Tindaya Variations
2018
40
‘
Special Interest
Directed by
Isaac Marrero-Guillamon
.
The mountain of Tindaya (Fuerteventura, Canary Islands) is more than a mountain. It was a sacred site for the indigenous people of Fuerteventura; later, its rock was quarried and sold for ornamental
Western Mediterranean
Archival material / Museum displays
Art / Artists / Artisans
Environment
Material Culture
Indigenous peoples / First Nations peoples
Archaeology
Travel
2016
63
‘
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
The Women Weavers of Assam
2019
98
‘
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