Films 2 Films Country "Sierra Leone" x films with a digital version 1 short films 1 Region West Africa 2 Country Sierra Leone 2 x Keywords Everyday Life 1 Film / Photography / Mass media 1 Reflexivity 1 Rural 1 Social Organisation 1 War / Conflict / Reconciliation 1 Directors Hanson, Kieran 1 MacDonald, Bruce 1 Series Disappearing World Series 1 Granada Center for Visual Anthropology Student Film 1 Country of production United Kingdom 2 Year of production 1990 1 2011 1 Film list The Mende 1990 52' 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 Shooting Freetown 2011 29' 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