Films 310 Films Country of production "United Kingdom" x films with a digital version 145 short films 156 films available on demand 11 Title initial A 8 B 20 C 19 D 13 E 11 F 10 G 12 H 21 I 11 J 3 K 15 L 19 M 24 N 5 O 5 P 7 Q 1 R 15 S 41 T 24 U 8 V 6 W 10 Y 2 Region Australia 2 British-Irish Isles 47 Caribbean Islands 4 Central Africa 1 Central America 7 Central Asia and Far East 19 Central Europe 3 East Africa 9 London 1 Melanesia 9 Micronesia 1 Middle and Near East 18 New Zealand and Polynesia 2 North America 16 North and Northeast Africa 15 Scandinavia 6 South America 36 South Asia 25 South-East Asia 15 South-East Europe 14 Southern Africa 15 Various 8 West Africa 19 Western Europe 17 Western Mediterranean 12 Country Afghanistan 8 Albania 1 Algeria 1 Angola 1 Anguilla 1 Australia 2 Austria 1 Bangladesh 1 Bolivia 1 Bosnia and Herzegovina 2 Botswana 7 Brazil 12 Burkina Faso 1 Cameroon 2 Canada 2 Cape Verde 1 Chile 1 China 7 Colombia 5 Cyprus 1 Czech Republic 1 Denmark 4 Ecuador 1 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Community identity 23 Colonialism / Postcolonialism 5 Dance / Theatre / Performance 19 Death 8 Development projects 13 Disasters 1 Education / Knowledge Transmission 9 Education / Knowledge transmission 4 Elderly people 5 Environment 5 Ethnofiction 3 Everyday Life 8 Family / Kinship 16 Festivals / Carnival 10 Film / Photography / Mass media 14 Food 3 Gender Role and Identity 39 Health / Health care / Healing 20 Herding 11 History 5 History of Anthropology 13 Hunting / Gathering / Fishing 11 Indigenous peoples / First Nations peoples 20 Informant-researcher relationship 5 Infrastructure / Transport 2 Inter-religious relations 6 Intergenerational relations 7 Internet 1 LGBTQI* 5 Labour 13 Land Rights 12 Law and Legislation / Bureaucracy 9 Life Story / Life History 3 Linguistics / Language 2 Love 5 Marriage 16 Material Culture 7 Memory 12 Migration 13 Music / Ethnomusicology 19 Nomads and Nomadism 7 Participatory / Collaborative methods 1 Personal Narrative 3 Political Activists 12 Popular Culture 4 Possession 4 Post-communism 5 Prison 2 Public Figure 10 Race / Racism / Antiracism 4 Reflexivity 6 Refugees / Displaced populations 16 Religion / Belief / Faith 44 Reproduction (biology) 3 Research methods 1 Resistance 5 Ritual 45 Rural 15 Sex / Sexuality 8 Shamans and Shamanism 3 Social Change 32 Social Conflict 12 Social Norms 3 Social Organisation 13 Socioeconomic conditions 14 Sport 7 Squatter Settlements / Homelessness 9 Tourism / Travel / Pilgrimage 14 Trade 7 Travellers / Roma 5 Urban 14 War / Conflict / Reconciliation 25 Directors Al Akash, Ruba 1 Allward, Caroline 1 Alves-Costa, Catarina 1 Anttila, Birgitta H. 1 Arnott, Susi 1 Asadullah, Sara 1 Asare-Nyako, Afua 1 Ash, David 1 Assunção, Matthias Röhrig 1 Austena, Aunund 1 Ayisi, Florence 1 Baily, John 11 Banks, Marcus 1 Basu, Paul 1 Beckham, Michael 2 Beier, Ulli 1 Belkind, Lukas 1 Benfield, Andy 1 Berg, Julia 1 Bernstein, Anya 1 Blake, John 2 Bolchover, James 1 Bonifacio, Valentina 1 Boswall, Karen 1 Bradbury, Ray 1 Brewer, Teri F. 1 Brice, Mark 1 Bringa, Tone 1 Bringas, Sylvie 1 Calugareanu, Ilinca 1 Campbell, Karlia 1 Carr, Peter 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 Contreras, Elisa 1 Cook, Alistair 1 Coppe, Alexia 1 Coppens, Sharis 1 Corral Paredes, Carolina 1 Cross, Stephen 1 Cubero, Carlo A. 1 Curling, Chris 5 D'onofrio, Alexandra 1 Davidson, John Paul 1 Day, Mike 1 Demiralay, Hakan 1 Dettmann, Christine 1 Dietrich, Martha-Cecilia 2 Dineen, Molly 1 Drion, Georges 1 Eagle, Rob 1 Eaton, Michael 1 Edwards, Bob 1 Elliot, Dominic 1 Engels, Claudia 1 Eschenbach, Sebastian 1 Fales, Ludovica 1 Farrell, Emma 1 Fassnidge, Matthew 1 Fedda, Yasmin 2 Ferrarini, Lorenzo 1 Finnestad, Mari 1 Flores, Carlos 1 Ford, Ellie 1 French, Dominic 1 Getzels, Peter 1 Goldberg, Claudia 1 Gordon, Harriet 1 Grasseni, Cristina 1 Greenwood, Rachel 1 Griggs, David 1 Grigsby, Michael 1 Grossman, Alyssa 2 Grove-White, Will 1 Gruber, Martin 1 Gupta, Meghna 1 Hajee, Amin 1 Hammill, Ruth 1 Hann, Amelia 1 Hanson, Kieran 1 Hardie, Amy 1 Harper, Peggy 2 Harries, Andy 3 Hartford, Hugh 1 Hatland, Line 1 Hawkins, Richard 1 Heald, Suzette 1 Heer, Madelief de 1 Hellwig, Jean 1 Henley, Paul 6 Hertog, Ester 1 Hill, Amanda 1 Hill, Joanna 1 Hirl, Alexander 1 Hogel, Jakob 1 Hopkins, Ben 1 Horton, Robin 1 Howes, Arthur 3 Hughes, Richard 1 Hughes-Freeland, Felicia 2 Hunt, Claire 1 Hunt, Clare 1 Husmann, Rolf 1 Huysmans, Carla 1 Ihle, Johanne Haaber 1 Jeppesen, Kira de Hemmer 1 Jerstad, Jon 2 Johnson, Dul 1 Johnston, Graham 2 Juárez-Allen, Gema 1 Kawanami, Hiroko 1 Kaymak, Vedide 1 Kenneil, Alastair 1 Kerlogue, Fiona 1 Kildea, Gary 1 Kirk, Laura 1 Kirkwood, Nick 1 Kriszio, Janina 1 Kurc, Julia 1 Kurutuac, Judith 1 LaPin, Deirdre 1 Langhorst, Insa 1 Lansing, Steven 1 Lasko, Claire 2 Lawrence, Andy 2 Leach, Jerry 1 Lehto, Veera 1 Leizaola, Ricardo 2 Levaulx-Vrecourt, Henriette 1 Lewis, Ariane 1 Lipsanen, Heidi 1 Llewelyn-Davies, Melissa 1 Lloyd, Ravi Hart 1 Loizos, Peter 3 Longinotto, Kim 16 Loïzos, Peter 1 Lutz, Peter 1 Maagdenberg, Ester 1 MacDonald, Bruce 3 MacDonald, Caro 1 MacDougall, David 2 MacDougall, Judith 2 Marcus, Alan 1 Marin, Nadja 1 Marrero-Guillamon, Isaac 1 McGuirk, Siobhan 1 Meriwether, Maria 1 Merli, Laetitia 1 Merrun, Gabriel 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 Morris, Bessie 1 Moser, Brian 7 Munro, Neil G. 1 Musleh, Hanna 1 Nairn, Charlie 5 Namondwe, Charles 1 Navarro Smith, Alejandra 1 Nicolau, João 1 Okojie, Paul 1 Olatunji, Ife 1 Ono, Ray 1 Owen, Chris 1 Owles, Ed 1 Pakleppa, Richard 1 Pardee, Lucy 1 Pasini, Carlos 2 Paterek, Austin 1 Patriarca, Niccolo 1 Payne, Becky 1 Pedrosa, Patrícia 1 Picard, David 1 Pinhheiro, Joceny 1 Planas, María Elena 1 Pollack, Claire 1 Powell, Harry 1 Pratt, Helen 1 Ravetz, Amanda 1 Read, Rosie 1 Reed, Alex 1 Rens, Maarten 1 Rice, Tom 1 Richards, Naomi 1 Robertson, Rachel 1 Robinson, Paul 1 Rosen, Jennifer 1 Samir-Shakir, Yasmin 1 Sandberg, Eirik 1 Savage, Rebecca 1 Schiltz, Anne 1 Schlenker, Juana 1 Schädler, Natalie 1 Schäuble, Michaela 1 Shakerifar, Elhum 1 Sheahan, Tom 1 Sheppard, John 4 Singer, André 16 Sjøberg, Johannes 1 Solomons, Natasha 1 Sonderegger, Ramona 1 Sowa, Remigiusz (aka Remi) 1 Speed, Frank 6 Sperscheinder, Werner 1 Stefani, Fotini 1 Taylor, Jamie 1 Thomas Allen, Christopher 1 Torresan, Angela 1 Tovey, Ana 1 Tucker, Andrew 1 Vella, Steve 1 Vinken, Polly 1 Vybiral, James 1 Waddell, Anna 1 Wason, David 5 Webster, Rachel 1 Werbner, Richard 10 Whitby-Coles, Charlotte 1 Willerslev, Rane 1 Williams, Jano 3 Williams, Stacey 1 Winter, Pattie 1 Woodhead, Leslie 12 Wright, Evie 1 Yezbick, Julia 1 Yorke, Michael 1 Youngstein, Theo 1 de Bromhead, Toni 5 Øien, Cecilie 1 Series Caught in a Web 3 Decolonising Shorts 1 Disappearing World Series 54 Forbidden Rites 3 Granada Center for Visual Anthropology Student Film 121 Granada Centre for Visual Anthropology Staff Film 3 In Search of Cool Ground: The Mursi Trilogy 3 National Film and Television School 10 Pleasure Shorts 1 Strangers Abroad 5 Sudan Trilogy 3 The Well-Being Quest in Botswana 8 Turkana Conversations 1 not set 97 Country of production Australia 2 Austria 1 Brazil 1 Canada 1 Denmark 1 Germany 3 India 2 Indonesia 1 Italy 2 Jordan 1 Netherlands 1 Nigeria 6 Peru 1 Romania 1 Senegal 1 South Africa 1 Sweden 1 Switzerland 1 United Kingdom 310 x United States 9 Venezuela 1 Year of production 1931 1 1952 1 1963 1 1964 1 1966 1 1970 2 1971 3 1972 2 1973 2 1974 9 1975 5 1976 1 1977 6 1979 4 1980 2 1981 1 1982 4 1983 7 1984 3 1985 7 1986 6 1987 9 1988 9 1989 11 1990 5 1991 7 1992 5 1993 6 1994 4 1995 4 1996 5 1997 7 1998 8 1999 8 2000 9 2001 10 2002 11 2003 12 2004 9 2005 5 2006 7 2007 11 2008 18 2009 14 2010 16 2011 6 2012 3 2013 2 2014 4 2015 6 2016 3 2018 4 2019 1 2020 2 Film list 37 Uses for a Dead Sheep 2006 85' 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 75 Grams 2008 31' 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 Across the Border: Afghan Musicians exiled in Peshawar 2008 54' 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 Across the Tracks - The Vlach Gypsies in Hungary 1988 52' 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 Afghan Exodus 1980 52' 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 Ainu Bear Ceremony 1931 27' 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 The Albanians of Rrogam 1991 52' 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 Amir - An Afghan Refugee Musician's Life in Peshavar, Pakistan 1985 52' 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 Asante Market Women 1982 52' 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 Ayouni 2020 75' Directed by Yasmin Fedda . Bassel was a successful open source developer and hacker in Damascus. Paolo was a well-known priest based in Mar Musa monastery. Both men were active in the 2011 Syrian revolution, and witnesses to Middle and Near East War / Conflict / Reconciliation Memory Political Activists Back to Basics 1994 33' 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 Bailarinas 2003 32' 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 Barah Pal 2009 30' 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 The Basques of Santazi 1987 52' 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 Beautiful Dachau 2008 30' 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 Beneath the Budding Greenwoods 2004 25' 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 Benin Kingship Rituals 1963 20' 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 Benjamin and His Brother 1999 87' 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 Between Memories 2015 34' 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 Black Mountain 2008 84' 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 Body Games - Capoeira and Ancestry 2014 87' 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 Born 2008 56' 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 Born Again 2003 19' Directed by Carla Huysmans . Carla last met Maureen Mulozi in 1998 in Lusaka, Zambia where they were colleagues and friends. Since then Maureen's life has changed considerably: she became a 'born again' Christian and moved to Southern Africa Religion / Belief / Faith Inter-religious relations The Boy From Allison Street 1998 30' 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 Boya Boya (Shine Shine) 2014 18' 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 The Bracewells 2000 49' 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 Breaking the Chains 2015 64' 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 Breaking the Yard 2018 21' 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 Burying Hallelujah 2014 51' 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 Business as Usual 2002 27' 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 Cae Dai - a Home From Home 1997 30' 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 Cakchiquel Maya of San Antonio Palopó 1987 52' 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 Call for Grace 2000 30' 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 Cannibalism 1999 60' 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 The Carrot and the Stick 1988 44' 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 Casado's Legacy 2009 49' 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 Caught in Between 2016 56' 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 Caught in a Magic Place 2007 28' 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 Changes 2010 30' 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 Cinema Pedregal 1994 27' 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 A Clearing in the Jungle 1970 52' 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 Coming of Age - Margaret Mead (1901-1978) 1986 52' 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 Condor and the Bull 1989 56' 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 Counterpoint Botswana 2011 45' 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 Counterpoint One 2011 37' 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' 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 Cultivating Death 2003 23' 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 Cuyagua - Devil Dancers 1987 52' 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 Cuyagua - the Saint With Two Faces 1987 56' 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 The Dancer and the Dance 1988 44' 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 The Day I Will Never Forget 2002 92' 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 Dervishes of Kurdistan 1973 52' 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 Divorce Iranian Style 1989 80' 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 Doctors of Two Worlds 1989 55' 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 Domov 2000 28' 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 A Donation to the Museum 2015 25' 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 Dream Girls 1993 50' 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 The Dream of Maelen 2003 25' 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 Dreamcatcher 2015 98' Directed by Kim Longinotto . A film set in Chicago about an inspirational woman who has defied her past and now rescues girls and young women from a life on the streets. North America Gender Role and Identity Labour Sex / Sexuality Dreamland 2001 30' 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 Drive it, Crash it, Paint it 2002 26' Directed by James Bolchover . Kelzo grew up in Hulme and has been writing on walls, wrecked cars and other urban surfaces since 1984. But now that he is a 'graffiti artist' whose work is sold in galleries, is he still in touch with his roots? British-Irish Isles Personal Narrative Alternative culture Art / Artists / Artisans Duminea: A Festival for the Water Spirits 1966 20' 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 Earning a Crust 2009 28' 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 Easy Life 1996 30' 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 Eat the Kimono 1989 60' 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 Eco trip 1997 30' 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 Embera — the End of the Road 1971 52' 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 Encountering Eloyi 2008 56' 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) Endgames 2008 32' 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 The Eskimos of Pond Inlet 1977 52' 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 Every Good Marriage Begins With Tears 2007 63' 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 Everything is Relatives - William Rivers (1864-1922) 1986 52' 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 Extended Family 2016 31' 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 Faces Voices 2018 18' Directed by Paul Basu Christopher Thomas Allen . The film complicates any simple reading of a colonial photographic archive from Southern Nigeria and Sierra Leone that was collected between 1909 and 1915. Through a collaborative creative effort West Africa British-Irish Isles Archival material / Museum displays Colonialism / Postcolonialism Race / Racism / Antiracism Faith 2010 30' 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 Fatmawati's Wedding: the Weddings of two Sisters, the Preparations 1998 50' 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 Fieldwork - Sir Walter Baldwin Spencer (1860-1929) 1986 52' 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 Fighting for Control 1998 30' 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 Firth on Firth 1993 49' 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 Fish Have Feelings Too 2001 23' 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 For The Love of the Game 2010 24' 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 Fragments from the Past 2006 27' 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 Fresh Fields 1995 31' 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 Gaea Girls 2000 106' 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 The Gaijin 2008 24' 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 Garden Days: Village in Papua New Guinea 1988 25' 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 Gelede: A Yoruba Masquerade 1970 30' 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 Going Back Home 1992 35' 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 The Good Wife of Tokyo 1992 52' 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 Growing Pains 2006 41' 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 The Guest 2012 20' 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 The Guga Hunters of Ness 2010 59' 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 Guiyang Beautiful Flavour Barbecue 2000 30' 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 Gule Wamkulu: The Great Dance 1991 37' 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 Harpoons and Heartache 1998 28' 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 The Head Cornerstone 1992 37' 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 Head Hunting 1999 60' 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 Heal the Whole Man 1974 50' 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 Healer on the Street 2003 28' 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 Heart of the Village 1985 52' 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 Herat Films: The City of Herat 1983 21' 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 Herat Films: The Annual Cycle of Music in Herat 1983 54' 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 Herat Films: The Shrines of Herat 1983 30' 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 The Herders of Mongun-Taiga 1989 52' 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 Hidden Faces 1990 52' 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 Hillside Beauties 2008 25' 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 Hold Me Tight Let Me Go 2007 99' 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 Holding the Tradition 1998 28' 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 Holy Hustlers 2009 53' 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 Holy Men and Fools 2005 61' 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 Home from the Hill 1984 60' 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 Hope, Despair and Laughter: A circus project in Palestine 2007 27' 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 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 Hulme Homes for Hulme People 1992 23' 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 Human Sacrifice 1999 60' 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 Ian Gleadell: A Falkland Farmer 1987 34' 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 IT WAS TOMORROW 2018 53' 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 Imbalu: Ritual of Manhood of the Gisu of Uganda 1988 69' 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 In the Light of Memory 2010 40' 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 In Our Blood 2003 26' 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 In Pursuit of Happiness 2009 31' 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 In Search of Cool Ground: The Mursi Trilogy 1987 52' 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 In Search of Home 2000 30' 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 In a State of Dress 2010 21' 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 The Internet Bride 2004 29' 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 Into the Field 2005 28' 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 John the Eel Trapper 1982 28' 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 Join Me in Shambala 2001 30' Directed by Anya Bernstein . Once brutally persecuted under the Soviet regime, Buddhism is re-emerging in Siberia. But with a past where Lamas were killed in prisons and temples burnt to the ground, there are few masters left to Central Asia and Far East Religion / Belief / Faith Post-communism Jungle Cat 2000 29' 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 A Kabul Music Diary 2003 52' 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 Kafi's Story 1979 53' 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 Kalanda - the Knowledge of the Bush 2014 62' 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 The Kalasha: Rites of Spring 1990 60' 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 Kanraxël: the Confluence of Agnack 2015 52' 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 Kataragama: A God for All Seasons 1973 52' 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 The Kawelka: Ongka’s Big Moka 1974 52' 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 The Kayapo 1987 52' 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 The Kayapo: Out of the Forest 1989 52' 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 Kazakhs of China 1983 52' 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 Keepers of the Faith: The Buddhist Nuns of Sagaing Hills 1996 51' Directed by Hiroko Kawanami . In the Sagaing 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 Gender Role and Identity Khyber 1979 49' 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 Kirghiz of Afghanistan 1975 51' 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 Kwagh Hir 1975 30' 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 The Kwegu 1979 52' 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 The Land on which We Stand 2007 31' 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 The Last Navigator 1989 50' 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 The Last of the Cuiva 1971 52' 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 The Lau of Malaita 1982 52' 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 Law and War in Rural Kenya 2010 64' 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 The Legacy of Antonio Lorenzano 2000 46' 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 Lessons from Gulam 1986 52' 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 Lessons from the Tiger 2010 22' 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 Letters from Palestine 2011 35' 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 Leyssart 2007 30' 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 Life Chances: Four Families in a Greek Cypriot Village 1974 43' 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 Life as We Know it 1995 25' Directed by Alex Reed . "It was Star Trek that brought us together". John and Pauline are to be wed beyond the Final Frontier at a Star Trek convention in Manchester. Among the guests are Klingons and Hollywood stars. British-Irish Isles Popular Culture Marriage Lifelibrary 2007 22' 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 A Little Bit of Freedom 1998 34' 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 Living Through Things 2005 32' Directed by Anna Waddell . Kristin, Mark and Bob collect things. The film explores attachment, possession and the way that objects inhabit their lives. British-Irish Isles Material Culture Living with the Revolution 1983 52' 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 The Longest Struggle: The Karen of Burma 1993 52' 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 Looking for the Man Of Aran 1999 25' 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 Lorang's Way 1977 69' 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 Made in Trenchtown 2010 33' 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 Making it Big in Berlin 2009 24' 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 Mangrove Music 2006 49' 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 Masai Manhood 1975 52' 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 Masai Women 1974 52' 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 Masks of Mer 2010 37' 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 Matai Samoa 1989 65' 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 Mehinacu 1974 52' 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 Men at Work 2010 32' 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 Men of Words 2009 22' 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 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 The Meo 1972 52' 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 Message from a Saint 2003 27' 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 The Migrants 1985 52' 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 Milking the Desert 2004 25' 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 Mirror Mirror 2006 58' 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 Mongolia, part 1: On the Edge of the Gobi 1975 52' 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 Mongolia part 2: The City on the Steppes 1975 52' 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 The Most Admired Man 2002 29' 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 The Most Wasted of All Days 2003 24' 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 Muktuk 1983 40' 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 Mursi 1974 52' 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 Mursi: The Land is Bad 1991 52' 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 Mursi: Nitha 1991 52' 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 Native 2002 29' 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 New Images 1964 27' 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 A New Kind of Life 1997 28' 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 The Newest Revolution 1983 52' 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 Nuba Conversation 1989 53' 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 Off the Verandah - Bronislaw Malinowski (1884-1942) 1986 52' 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 Oink! 2020 22' Directed by Rob Eagle . An experimental research documentary offering a portrait of gay men who‚ in different ways‚ relate to the “pig” sexual imaginary. It provides insight into their experiences of identity, Western Europe North America Sex / Sexuality LGBTQI* Collective / Community identity Only Thinking 2009 27' 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 Orphans of Passage: The Uduk 1993 52' 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 Out of Place 1993 38' 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 Part of Us 2009 27' 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 The Pathans 1980 52' 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 Pepe 2004 23' 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 Pepsi War 1992 30' 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 Photo Wallahs 1991 60' 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 Pink Saris 2010 100' 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 Pushy Women 2001 23' 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 The Quechua 1974 52' 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 The Ragged Ones 2002 30' 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 Raised by Humans 2010 25' 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 Raju and His Friends 1988 40' 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 Ravi and Bhajay 2002 26' 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 Read Me 2008 29' 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 Reclaiming the Forest 1987 39' 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 The Red Bowmen 1981 50' 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 The Rendille 1977 52' 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 Return of the Nightingales 2013 33' 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 Returning Home: Revival of a Bosnian Village 2001 48' 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 Rock ‘n’ Pray 2001 24' 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 Rough Aunties 2008 103' 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 Round Trip 1999 36' 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 Rub’el Kurus 1997 45' 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 Runaway 2001 87' 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 Sacred Harp Singers 1984 85' 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 Sahar’s Wedding 1991 46' 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 A Saint from New York 1995 30' 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 The Sakuddei 1974 52' 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 Saliendo Adelante 2011 28' 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 Salma 2013 90' 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 Scenes of Afghan Music: London, Kabul, Hamburg, Dublin 2007 97' 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' 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 The Second Red Line 2004 25' 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 Self Defence 2002 28' 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 Shade Seekers and The Mixer 2006 60' 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 Sherpas of Nepal 1977 52' 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 The Shilluk of Southern Sudan 1976 52' 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 Shinjuku Boys 1997 54' 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 Shonar Bangla 2009 28' Directed by Sara Asadullah . Four scenes from a Bangladeshi community in London. Each scene is an encounter with a different generation (children, teenagers and adults) until the final scene where all generations are brought together in a wedding. British-Irish Isles Intergenerational relations Marriage 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 The Shrimpers 2008 30' 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 Sin tierra, no somos Shuar 2009 23' Directed by Stacey Williams . Shuar traditions and land are intimately tied to another. This film explores how the traditions and relationships change when foreign mining companies enter their territory. South America Land Rights Indigenous peoples / First Nations peoples Social Conflict Sisters in Law 2005 104' 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 A Small Light 2004 32' 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 Small Man of the Forest 2004 37' 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 Smell the Roses 2003 28' 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 Smoke 1991 28' 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 Some Women of Marrakech 1977 52' 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 Sons of the Moon 1984 25' 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 Sophia and Her People 1985 35' 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 Southeast London Ethnography - Three Student Films: Anglesea Road; The Good Ol' Days; Talk of Trade 2007 13' 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 A Spark in Him 2008 28' 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 Staging a Return 1994 30' 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 Standing Places 2007 31' 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 Steel Lives 2005 45' 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 Still Life 2009 26' Directed by Siobhan McGuirk . “I am here because I can’t go home.” Subject to strict controls in the UK, three women asylum seekers wait for claims to be processed and decisions made. Here they find the lives which they British-Irish Isles Refugees / Displaced populations Law and Legislation / Bureaucracy The Storyteller 1990 50' 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 Strange Beliefs - Sir Edward Evans-Pritchard (1902-1973) 1986 52' 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 Street Fiction 2002 32' 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 Sundanese Culture Alive 1988 46' 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 Suspend your Beliefs 2004 29' 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 Sweet Life and All That Goes With It 2002 29' 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 Swings and Roundabouts 1994 30' 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 Séance Reflections with Richard Werbner 2004 45' 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) Tablas and Drum Machines: Afghan Music in California 2001 58' 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 Talking to Each Other 1985 52' 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 Tayuban: Dancing the Spirit in Java 1996 30' 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 The Temple in the Sea 2008 26' 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 Tenonde’i - a Beautiful Future 2008 30' 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 Thanks Be to God 2008 31' 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 Theatre Girls 1979 57' 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 There is Nothing Wrong with my Uncle 2012 78' 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 They Say We’re All Winners 2002 32' 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 The Thompsons 1996 29' 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 Those Who Don’t Work Don’t Make Love 1998 30' 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 Those who Care: Faith and Freedom in a Ladakhi Village 2001 31' 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 A Tibetan New Year 1987 45' 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 Tiempo de Vals 2006 22' 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 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 A Town in Sicily 2015 120' 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 Transfiction 2007 58' 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 Treasured Moments 2016 33' 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 Trobriand Cricket: An Ingenious Response to Colonialism 1974 50' 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 The Trobriand Islanders 1952 58' 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 The Trobriand Islanders of Papua New Guinea 1990 52' 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 The Tuareg 1972 52' 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 Tuktu 1985 47' 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 Two Ears, One Mouth 1999 25' 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 Umbanda 1977 52' 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 Uncanny Strangers 2009 46' 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 Uncle Poison 1998 60' 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 Unravel 2012 14' Directed by Meghna Gupta . 'Unravel' follows the Western worlds least wanted clothes, on a journey across Northern India, from sea to industrial interior. They get sent to Panipat, a sleepy town and the only place in the world South Asia Labour Material Culture Collective / Community identity Untouched Rock 2008 28' 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 Usch in the Bush 2001 32' Directed by Michaela Schäuble . In the 1980s Ursula Heimer leaves behind her husband and children in Germany and goes to live in the African bush. We meet her seventeen years later in a tiny village in Togo, where she has been West Africa Personal Narrative Alternative culture Ustad Rahim 2008 55' 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 Vaud and the Villains 2010 30' 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 Vendemos Recuerdos 2009 25' 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 Views from Heavenly Lake 2010 26' 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 A Village Heritage 1985 52' 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 The Villagers of Sierra de Gredos 1989 52' 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 Vivir la Chicha 2003 28' 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 War of the Gods 1971 52' 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 The Water Goddess and the Computer 1989 52' 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 We Are All Neighbours 1993 52' 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 We Are Born to Survive 1995 30' 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 The Whale Hunters of Lamalera 1988 52' 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 Witchcraft Among the Azande 1982 52' 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 North and Northeast Africa Religion / Belief / Faith Health / Health care / Healing Social Change The Wodaabe 1988 52' 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 Women of a Divided Land 1997 22' 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 Worldwide, Streetwise 2003 32' 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 Writing Panare - Portrait of a Linguist on Fieldwork 1996 30' 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 You Can’t Live With Your Mouth Shut 1999 29' 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 Yukaghir Stories 1997 30' 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 [S+P2] 2010 30' 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