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Films
7 Films
available to watch on demand
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Country of production
“Germany”
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films with a digital version
2
films hosted on Kanopy
3
short films
3
films available on demand
7
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Region
Middle and Near East
1
North and Northeast Africa
3
South Asia
1
South-East Europe
1
Western Europe
3
Western Mediterranean
1
Country
Belgium
1
Ethiopia
3
Germany
2
Greece
1
Italy
1
Pakistan
1
Syria
1
Keywords
Agriculture / Farming
2
Art / Artists / Artisans
1
Collective / Community identity
1
Colonialism / Postcolonialism
1
Development projects
1
Elderly people
1
Environment
1
Food / Water
2
Health / Health care / Healing
1
Life Story / Life History
2
Memory
1
Migration
3
Participatory / Collaborative methods
1
Personal Narrative
1
Race / Racism / Antiracism
1
Reflexivity
2
Refugees / Displaced populations
1
Refugees/ Displaced populations
1
Resettlement
2
Social participation
1
Directors
Asadi Faezi, Daniel
1
Bloching, Max
1
Defersha, Eyob
1
Dukmak, Abd Alrahman
1
Gabrehiwot, Mitiku
1
Mekonen, Solomon
1
Papenbrook, Jana
1
Xu, Beina
1
Series
Decolonising Shorts
1
Guardians of Productive Landscapes
2
Shorts Collection 2
1
not set
3
Country of production
Ethiopia
2
Germany
7
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Pakistan
1
Year of production
2017
1
2018
3
2019
1
2020
2
Film list
The Absence of Apricots
2018
49
‘
Student
Directed by
Daniel Asadi Faezi
.
In the Hunza Valley in the northern Pakistan there is a magnificent turquoise lake. But the lake hasn’t been always there: it is the result of a massive landslide that blocked a river, causing
South Asia
Environment
Memory
Development projects
Resettlement
Dancing Grass. Harvesting teff in the Tigrean highlands
2018
40
‘
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
Emails to My Little Sister
2018
35
‘
Directed by
Solomon Mekonen
.
An autoethnographic phenomenology of blackness in Berlin via Ethiopia. The film explores the historical and ongoing relationship between the so-called West and Africa. A brother who lives north of
Western Europe
North and Northeast Africa
Migration
Race / Racism / Antiracism
Colonialism / Postcolonialism
Reflexivity
Forget Alberto For Now
2020
19
‘
Directed by
Beina Xu
.
A refugee known only as Alberto flies from Athens to Brussels on a fake passport. Three years later, a small crew from Berlin tries to make a film by shooting the landscape of his transit. Things
Western Europe
Western Mediterranean
Reflexivity
Migration
Resettlement
Refugees/ Displaced populations
In Aiye’s Garden. Propagation and Processing of Enset in the Gamo Highlands
2019
58
‘
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
Unwritten Letters
2020
59
‘
Directed by
Max Bloching
Abd Alrahman Dukmak
.
Abd is a 24-year-old Syrian who took part in the early days of the 2011 revolution and now lives in Padova, Italy. Together with his German friend Max he is working on a film called Unwritten
South-East Europe
Middle and Near East
Migration
Refugees / Displaced populations
Participatory / Collaborative methods
Life Story / Life History
Why is Mr W. Laughing?
2017
76
‘
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