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Films
160 Films
shorter than 40 minutes
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Country of production
“United Kingdom”
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Showing 3
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films with a digital version
39
short films
160
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films available on demand
9
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A
1
B
12
C
7
D
7
E
5
F
7
G
9
H
10
I
9
J
3
x
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
Los Angeles
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
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