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Films
5 Films
shorter than 40 minutes
x
Country
“Brazil”
x
short films
5
x
Region
South America
5
Country
Brazil
5
x
Keywords
Children / Young people
2
Dance / Theatre / Performance
1
Gender Role and Identity
2
Health / Health care / Healing
1
Indigenous peoples / First Nations peoples
1
Land Rights
1
Ritual
1
Socioeconomic conditions
1
Squatter Settlements / Homelessness
1
Directors
Juárez-Allen, Gema
1
Kurc, Julia
1
Lipsanen, Heidi
1
Marin, Nadja
1
Pinhheiro, Joceny
1
Series
Granada Center for Visual Anthropology Student Film
5
Country of production
United Kingdom
5
Year of production
2001
1
2003
2
2008
2
Film list
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
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
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
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
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