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Films
138 Films
shorter than 40 minutes
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Festival Prize Category
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Showing 4
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films with a digital version
40
films hosted on Kanopy
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short films
138
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films available on demand
27
Title initial
B
4
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C
4
D
7
E
2
F
4
G
6
H
2
I
1
J
1
K
1
L
2
M
3
N
3
O
13
P
6
R
12
S
30
T
13
U
5
V
7
W
11
Y
1
Region
Australia
4
British-Irish Isles
8
Caribbean Islands
2
Central Africa
1
Central America
5
Central Asia and Far East
16
Central Europe
7
East Africa
1
Melanesia
1
Middle and Near East
4
North America
9
North and Northeast Africa
4
Scandinavia
4
South America
6
South Asia
9
South-East Asia
8
South-East Europe
30
Southern Africa
2
West Africa
9
Western Europe
10
Western Mediterranean
4
not set
1
Country
Afghanistan
1
Australia
4
Austria
5
Bangladesh
1
Belgium
2
Botswana
1
Brazil
1
Bulgaria
1
Cameroon
1
Cape Verde
1
China
7
Colombia
1
Croatia
3
Cyprus
1
Denmark
2
Ecuador
1
Egypt
1
Ethiopia
3
France
1
Germany
3
Ghana
1
Greece
3
Greenland
1
Haiti
1
India
4
Indonesia
6
Israel
1
Italy
17
Japan
4
Lesotho
1
Los Angeles
1
Mexico
5
Myanmar
1
Nepal
3
Netherlands
1
Nigeria
4
Norway
1
Pakistan
1
Palestine
1
Papua New Guinea
1
Peru
1
Poland
1
Portugal
1
Republic of Macedonia
1
Romania
3
Russian Federation
1
Senegal
1
Sierra Leone
2
Singapore
1
Slovenia
2
South Korea
1
Spain
1
Sweden
1
Switzerland
2
Taiwan
1
Togo
1
Trinidad and Tobago
1
Turkey
1
Uganda
1
United Kingdom
8
United States
7
Uzbekistan
1
Venezuela
1
Virtual Space
1
Yemen
1
not set
3
Keywords
Agriculture / Farming
4
Agriculture/ Farming
1
Alternative culture
4
Animals
5
Animation
1
Archaeobotany / Ethnobotany
4
Archival material / Museum displays
4
Art / Artists / Artisans
5
Art/ Aritists/ Artisans
1
Art/ Artists/ Artisans
2
Children / Young people
9
Children/ Young people
1
Collective / Community identity
9
Colonialism / Postcolonialism
5
Dance / Theatre / Performance
3
Death
4
Development projects
4
Digital media
1
Disasters
1
Education / Knowledge Transmission
3
Education / Knowledge transmission
2
Elderly People
1
Elderly people
2
Environment
3
Everyday Life
3
Family / Kinship
7
Family/ Kinship
1
Festivals / Carnival
40
Festivals/ Carnival
1
Film / Photography / Mass media
1
Folklore
38
Food / Water
2
Gender Role and Identity
9
Gender Role and identity
1
Health / Health care / Healing
4
Health/ Health care/ Healing
1
History
1
Hunting / Gathering / Fishing
2
Hunting/Gathering/Fishing
1
Indigenous peoples / First Nation peoples
2
Indigenous peoples / First Nations peoples
7
Informant-researcher relationship
3
Infrastructure / Transport
2
Infrastructure/transport
1
Inter-religious relations
2
Intergenerational relations
2
Internet
3
LGBTQI*
1
Labour
2
Land Rights
2
Law and Legislation / Bureaucracy
1
Life Story / Life History
2
Life Story/ Life History
1
Linguistics / Language
2
Love
3
Marriage
4
Material Culture
3
Migration
7
Music / Ethnomusicology
8
Music/ Ethnomusicology
1
Music/Ethnomusicology
1
Myths/ Fairy tales
1
Nationalism
1
Participatory / Collaborative methods
1
Personal Narrative
2
Political Activists
2
Possession
1
Post-communism
1
Prison
1
Public Figure
1
Race / Racism / Antiracism
4
Reflexivity
6
Refugees / Displaced populations
2
Refugees/ Displaced populations
1
Religion / Belief / Faith
11
Research Methods
1
Resettlement
1
Resistance
2
Ritual
9
Rural
4
Sensory Ethnography
1
Sex / Sexuality
4
Shamans and Shamanism
1
Social Change
8
Social Conflict
2
Social Organisation
1
Socioeconomic conditions
1
Sport
3
Squatter Settlements / Homelessness
3
Tourism / Travel / Pilgrimage
3
Tourism/ Travel/ Pilgrimage
2
Trade
4
Travellers / Roma
2
Urban
5
War / Conflict / Reconciliation
4
Directors
Arcé, Adrian
1
Arif-Bashir, Abeera
1
Asch, Patsy
2
Asch, Timothy
2
Baily, John
1
Balanydjarrk, Meredith
1
Balpatji, Warren
1
Banks, Marcus
1
Baskin Coffey, Victoria
1
Basu, Paul
1
Beier, Ulli
1
Belkind, Lukas
1
Benfield, Andy
1
Bernstein, Anya
1
Brandão, Joana
1
Bruun, Dan
1
Cai, Hua
1
Campbell, Karlia
1
Choi, Hyewon
1
Clay, Charlie
1
Cooper, Timothy
1
Coppens, Sharis
1
Corral Paredes, Carolina
1
Danusiri, Aryo
1
Deger, Jennifer
2
Djingadjingawuy, Kayleen
1
Drion, Georges
1
Dunne, Bryony
1
Dyson, Jane
1
Eagle, Rob
1
Engels, Claudia
1
F. Quigua, Claudia
1
Finnestad, Mari
1
Forge, Anthony
1
Fox, J.
1
Fox, James J.
1
Fruzzetti, Lina
1
Gabrehiwot, Mitiku
1
Ganambarr, James
1
Gao, Ang
1
Grasseni, Cristina
1
Griggs, David
1
Gurrumuruwuy, Paul
1
Guruŋulmiwuy, Enid
1
Guzzetti, Alfred
1
Hanson, Kieran
1
Harrison, Ross
1
Hartford, Hugh
1
Hatland, Line
1
Henley, Paul
3
Hertog, Ester
1
Hill, Joanna
1
Hogel, Jakob
1
Johnston, Ned
1
Kaserci, Zeynep
1
Kawase, Itsushi
1
Kezich, Giovanni
1
Kriszio, Janina
1
Kuentz, Gaspard
1
LaPin, Deirdre
1
Langer, Vanessa
1
Lawrence, Andy
1
Lehto, Veera
1
Levaulx-Vrecourt, Henriette
1
Lopes, André
1
Lowe, Sebastian
1
Loïzos, Peter
1
Lutz, Peter
1
MacDonald, Caro
1
MacDougall, David
2
MacDougall, Judith
2
Magnússon, Jón Bjarki
1
Marin, Nadja
1
Mekonen, Solomon
1
Meliqo’ziev, Iqbol
1
Meriwether, Maria
1
Milling, Julie
1
Monahan, Trent
1
Moore, Allen
1
Navarro Smith, Alejandra
1
Nicolau, João
1
Nitzky, William
1
Okojie, Paul
1
Owles, Edward
1
Palmer, Lisa
1
Paterek, Austin
1
Pratt, Helen
1
Prince, Raymond
1
Prothero, Sarah
1
Ross, Nina
1
Rousso-Schindler, Steven
3
Sarabi, Abtin
1
Savage, Rebecca
1
Schiltz, Anne
1
Schlenker, Juana
1
Schäuble, Michaela
1
Seaman, Gary
3
Song, Zhifang
3
Sowa, Remigiusz
1
Speed, Frank
3
Stefani, Fotini
1
Sterre Schmitz, Julia
1
Tamura (aka John Wells), Can
1
Tanlaka, Kilian Lamtur
1
Teo, Qi Yu
1
Thomas Allen, Christopher
1
Torresan, Angela
1
Torson, Jennifer
1
Trentini, Michele
38
Tsai, Futuru C.L.
1
Vinken, Polly
1
Visser, Mara Lin
1
Vybiral, James
1
Webster, Rachel
1
Werbner, Richard
1
Werner, Louis
1
Williams, Stacey
1
Wunungmurra, Paul
1
Xu, Beina
1
Yezbick, Julia
1
Youngstein, Theo
1
Zirión, Antonio
1
not set
1
Östör, Ákos
1
Series
ANU, Indonesia Series
3
Carnival King of Europe
38
Decolonising Shorts
4
Granada Center for Visual Anthropology Student Film
43
Granada Centre for Visual Anthropology Staff Film
1
Guardians of Productive Landscapes
1
Pleasure Shorts
3
Shorts Collection 1
1
Shorts Collection 2
11
Shorts collection 2
5
Song Family Village
3
not set
25
Country of production
Australia
8
Canada
1
China
5
Colombia
1
Denmark
1
Egypt
1
Ethiopia
1
France
1
Germany
3
Greece
1
Iceland
1
Indonesia
1
Italy
37
Japan
4
Mexico
1
Netherlands
1
Nigeria
2
Norway
1
Pakistan
1
Singapore
1
South Korea
1
Switzerland
1
Taiwan
1
Turkey
1
United Kingdom
57
United States
12
Uzbekistan
1
Year of production
1963
1
1964
1
1973
2
1983
1
1984
1
1985
1
1986
1
1987
1
1988
2
1989
1
1992
1
1993
1
1994
2
1995
3
1996
3
1997
1
1998
1
1999
3
2000
1
2001
5
2002
4
2003
2
2004
5
2006
3
2007
1
2008
9
2009
8
2010
8
2011
6
2012
2
2013
4
2014
7
2015
6
2016
6
2017
7
2018
6
2019
10
2020
11
Festival Prize Category
Film list
Bang the Drum
2020
28
‘
Directed by
William Nitzky
.
For the Yao minority in rural southwest China, the bronze drum is a sacred heritage. Its sound aids the souls of deceased elders in reaching the ancestral land. When the Chinese government steps in
Central Asia and Far East
Music/ Ethnomusicology
Tourism/ Travel/ Pilgrimage
Rural
Shamans and Shamanism
The Bear Chase
2009
7
‘
Directed by
Michele Trentini
.
In the Catalan-speaking southern France, a proper “Bear Chase”, of the kind that was once popular throughout Europe, has been revived in a carnival context. This film is part of **Carnival
Western Europe
Festivals / Carnival
Folklore
The Beautiful White Masks of Rèsije
2017
15
‘
Directed by
Michele Trentini
.
In a small community of Italian Slavic-speakers, the performance by the Beautiful White Masks, impersonated by women, comes to an abrupt end with the burning of the Babaz. This film is part of
South-East Europe
Festivals / Carnival
Folklore
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