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Films
160 Films
shorter than 40 minutes
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Country of production
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Showing 10
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films with a digital version
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short films
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films available on demand
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1
B
12
C
7
D
7
E
5
F
7
G
9
H
10
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I
9
J
3
K
1
L
9
M
10
N
3
O
3
P
4
R
9
S
26
T
12
U
3
V
4
W
4
Y
2
Region
Australia
2
British-Irish Isles
34
Caribbean Islands
5
Central America
4
Central Asia and Far East
9
Central Europe
2
Melanesia
2
Middle and Near East
8
New Zealand and Polynesia
1
North America
9
North and Northeast Africa
2
Scandinavia
6
South America
17
South Asia
11
South-East Asia
5
South-East Europe
9
Southern Africa
6
West Africa
13
Western Europe
12
Western Mediterranean
9
Country
Afghanistan
3
Anguilla
1
Australia
2
Austria
1
Botswana
1
Brazil
5
Canada
1
Cape Verde
1
Chile
1
China
3
Colombia
2
Cyprus
1
Czech Republic
1
Denmark
4
Ecuador
1
Eritrea
1
France
2
Germany
5
Ghana
2
Greece
2
Greenland
1
Guinea-Bissau
1
Haiti
1
India
7
Indonesia
2
Ireland
1
Israel
1
Italy
3
Jamaica
2
Japan
4
Jordan
1
Lesotho
1
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1
Malawi
1
Malta
2
Mexico
3
Mongolia
1
Morocco
1
Myanmar
1
Namibia
1
Nepal
4
New Zealand
1
Nigeria
7
Norway
2
Palestine
2
Papua New Guinea
2
Peru
4
Portugal
2
Romania
5
Russian Federation
2
Sierra Leone
2
South Africa
1
Spain
2
Sweden
2
Switzerland
1
Syria
1
The Netherlands
2
Togo
1
Trinidad and Tobago
1
United Kingdom
35
United States
6
Venezuela
3
Yemen
1
not set
3
Keywords
Agriculture / Farming
4
Agriculture/ Farming
1
Alternative culture
14
Animals
8
Animation
1
Archaeobotany / Ethnobotany
1
Archaeology
2
Archival material / Museum displays
7
Art / Artists / Artisans
8
Art/ Artists/ Artisans
2
Children / Young people
17
Collective / Community identity
9
Colonialism / Postcolonialism
2
Dance / Theatre / Performance
10
Death
4
Development projects
6
Disasters
1
Education / Knowledge Transmission
4
Education / Knowledge transmission
3
Elderly people
5
Environment
3
Ethnofiction
2
Everyday Life
2
Family / Kinship
7
Family/ Kinship
1
Festivals / Carnival
3
Film / Photography / Mass media
7
Food
3
Gender Role and Identity
10
Gender Role and identity
1
Health / Health care / Healing
7
Health/ Health care/ Healing
1
Herding
1
History
3
History of Anthropology
2
Hunting / Gathering / Fishing
4
Indigenous peoples / First Nations peoples
10
Informant-researcher relationship
1
Inter-religious relations
3
Intergenerational relations
5
Internet
1
LGBTQI*
3
Labour
7
Land Rights
4
Law and Legislation / Bureaucracy
4
Life Story / Life History
1
Life Story/ Life History
1
Linguistics / Language
1
Love
3
Marriage
5
Material Culture
6
Memory
8
Migration
8
Music / Ethnomusicology
7
Nationalism
1
Personal Narrative
3
Political Activists
4
Popular Culture
3
Possession
1
Post-communism
4
Prison
1
Public Figure
2
Race / Racism / Antiracism
3
Reflexivity
3
Refugees / Displaced populations
6
Religion / Belief / Faith
19
Reproduction (biology)
1
Resistance
2
Ritual
16
Rural
2
Sex / Sexuality
4
Shamans and Shamanism
1
Social Change
6
Social Conflict
4
Social Organisation
1
Socioeconomic conditions
5
Sport
5
Squatter Settlements / Homelessness
7
Tourism / Travel / Pilgrimage
6
Trade
5
Travellers / Roma
4
Urban
12
War / Conflict / Reconciliation
10
Directors
Al Akash, Ruba
1
Allward, Caroline
1
Alves-Costa, Catarina
1
Anttila, Birgitta H.
1
Asadullah, Sara
1
Asare-Nyako, Afua
1
Austena, Aunund
1
Baily, John
3
Banks, Marcus
1
Basu, Paul
1
Beier, Ulli
1
Belkind, Lukas
1
Benfield, Andy
1
Berg, Julia
1
Bernstein, Anya
1
Bolchover, James
1
Boswall, Karen
1
Bradbury, Ray
1
Brewer, Teri F.
1
Calugareanu, Ilinca
1
Campbell, Karlia
1
Cheetham, Ben
1
Christodoulou, Chris
1
Clarissou, Priscilla
1
Clay, Charlie
1
Clifford-Jaeger, Simone
1
Contreras, Elisa
1
Cook, Alistair
1
Coppe, Alexia
1
Coppens, Sharis
1
Corral Paredes, Carolina
1
Demiralay, Hakan
1
Dietrich, Martha-Cecilia
2
Drion, Georges
1
Dyson, Jane
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
1
Finnestad, Mari
1
Ford, Ellie
1
French, Dominic
1
Goldberg, Claudia
1
Grasseni, Cristina
1
Greenwood, Rachel
1
Griggs, David
1
Grossman, Alyssa
2
Grove-White, Will
1
Gruber, Martin
1
Gupta, Meghna
1
Hammill, Ruth
1
Hann, Amelia
1
Hanson, Kieran
1
Harper, Peggy
2
Harrison, Ross
1
Hartford, Hugh
1
Hatland, Line
1
Heer, Madelief de
1
Henley, Paul
3
Hertog, Ester
1
Hill, Amanda
1
Hill, Joanna
1
Hirl, Alexander
1
Hogel, Jakob
1
Horton, Robin
1
Hughes, Richard
1
Hughes-Freeland, Felicia
1
Huysmans, Carla
1
Ihle, Johanne Haaber
1
Jeppesen, Kira de Hemmer
1
Jerstad, Jon
1
Johnston, Graham
1
Juárez-Allen, Gema
1
Kaymak, Vedide
1
Kenneil, Alastair
1
Kirk, Laura
1
Kirkwood, Nick
1
Kriszio, Janina
1
Kurc, Julia
1
LaPin, Deirdre
1
Langhorst, Insa
1
Lawrence, Andy
1
Lehto, Veera
1
Leizaola, Ricardo
1
Levaulx-Vrecourt, Henriette
1
Lewis, Ariane
1
Lipsanen, Heidi
1
Lloyd, Ravi Hart
1
Loïzos, Peter
1
Lutz, Peter
1
Maagdenberg, Ester
1
MacDonald, Caro
1
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
Moderbacher, Christine
1
Moggan, Julie
1
Morris, Bessie
1
Munro, Neil G.
1
Namondwe, Charles
1
Navarro Smith, Alejandra
1
Nicolau, João
1
Okojie, Paul
1
Olatunji, Ife
1
Ono, Ray
1
Owles, Ed
1
Owles, Edward
1
Pardee, Lucy
1
Paterek, Austin
1
Patriarca, Niccolo
1
Payne, Becky
1
Pedrosa, Patrícia
1
Pinhheiro, Joceny
1
Planas, María Elena
1
Pratt, Helen
1
Read, Rosie
1
Reed, Alex
1
Rens, Maarten
1
Rice, Tom
1
Richards, Naomi
1
Robertson, Rachel
1
Rosen, Jennifer
1
Ross, Nina
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
Sonderegger, Ramona
1
Sowa, Remigiusz
1
Speed, Frank
6
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
Webster, Rachel
1
Werbner, Richard
2
Willerslev, Rane
1
Williams, Stacey
1
Wright, Evie
1
Yezbick, Julia
1
Youngstein, Theo
1
de Bromhead, Toni
1
Series
Decolonising Shorts
1
Granada Center for Visual Anthropology Student Film
116
Granada Centre for Visual Anthropology Staff Film
1
National Film and Television School
4
Pleasure Shorts
1
Shorts Collection 2
3
Shorts collection 2
1
The Well-Being Quest in Botswana
1
not set
32
Country of production
Austria
1
Canada
1
Denmark
1
Germany
2
Jordan
1
Netherlands
1
Nigeria
5
Peru
1
Romania
1
Switzerland
1
United Kingdom
160
x
United States
3
Venezuela
1
Year of production
1931
1
1963
1
1964
1
1966
1
1970
1
1975
1
1982
1
1983
3
1984
1
1985
1
1987
2
1988
2
1991
2
1992
4
1993
1
1994
4
1995
4
1996
4
1997
5
1998
6
1999
4
2000
6
2001
7
2002
10
2003
11
2004
8
2005
2
2006
2
2007
7
2008
12
2009
11
2010
13
2011
4
2012
2
2013
1
2014
1
2015
2
2016
2
2018
3
2019
3
2020
3
Film list
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
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
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 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
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
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
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