Films 12 Films Country of production "France" x films with a digital version 9 short films 1 films available on demand 3 Region Central Asia and Far East 1 Melanesia 2 South America 2 South-East Asia 2 South-East Europe 2 West Africa 1 Western Europe 2 Country Brazil 1 China 1 France 2 French Guiana 1 Indonesia 2 Italy 2 Papua New Guinea 1 Togo 1 Vanuatu 1 Keywords Art / Artists / Artisans 1 Children / Young people 1 Dance / Theatre / Performance 1 Death 1 Development projects 1 Ethnofiction 2 Everyday Life 1 Festivals / Carnival 1 Gender Role and Identity 1 Health / Health care / Healing 2 Indigenous peoples / First Nations peoples 1 Informant-researcher relationship 2 Infrastructure\transport 1 Inter-religious relations 1 Labour 2 Land rights 1 Linguistics / Language 1 Migration 2 Music / Ethnomusicology 1 Possession 2 Reflexivity 2 Religion / Belief / Faith 2 Resettlement 1 Ritual 2 Sex / Sexuality 2 Shamans and Shamanism 2 Social Change 1 Urban 1 Directors Chabamier, Gabriel 1 Chabanier, Gabriel 1 Ferrarese, Adriana 1 Folly, Anne Laure 1 Francois, Alexandre 1 Iteanu, Andre 1 Journet, Martine 2 Kapon, Eytan 1 Mai, Nick 2 Møhl, Perle 1 Nougarol, Gérard 2 Opipari, Carmen 1 Svartzman, Boris 1 Timbert, Sylvie 1 Wittersheim, Eric 1 de Bromhead, Toni 1 Series not set 12 Country of production China 1 Denmark 1 France 12 x Italy 1 Year of production 1984 1 1991 1 1997 1 2002 2 2005 1 2007 1 2008 1 2016 3 2019 1 Film list Barbara and Her Friends in Candombleland 1997 52' 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 Confluences - Emerillon of French Guiana 2007 78' 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 Gods and Satans 2005 87' 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 The Guardian of the Forces 1991 52' 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 Indo Pino 2002 84' 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 Letter to the Dead 2002 62' 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 My Eyes as a Stranger 1984 53' 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 A New Era 2019 71' Werbner Award Directed by Boris Svartzman . In 2008, local authorities evicted 2,000 villagers from Guanzhou, a river island in Southern China, to make way for new urban planning projects. In spite of the demolition of their houses and police Central Asia and Far East Urban Development projects Infrastructure\transport Land rights Resettlement The Poet's Salary 2008 59' 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 Processes 2016 23' 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 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 Travel (double screen) 2016 63' 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