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Films
138 Films
shorter than 40 minutes
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Festival Prize Category
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Showing 12
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films with a digital version
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films hosted on Kanopy
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short films
138
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films available on demand
27
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B
4
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
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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
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
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
Ringtone
2014
30
‘
Directed by
Jennifer Deger
Paul Wunungmurra
.
Yolngu Aboriginal families offer glimpses into their lives and relationships through their choice of ringtones. From ancestral clan songs to 80s hip hop artists and local gospel tunes, these songs
Australia
Indigenous peoples / First Nations peoples
Music / Ethnomusicology
Material Culture
A Rite on the Run: the Blùmari of Benecija
2015
10
‘
Directed by
Michele Trentini
.
In the Slovenian-speaking Italian Benecija, the Blùmari run across the village fields once a year, just like the Arval Brethren of ancient Rome. This film is part of **Carnival King of Europe DVD
South-East Europe
Folklore
Festivals / Carnival
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
Room 11, Ethiopia Hotel
2006
23
‘
Directed by
Itsushi Kawase
.
The film recounts the life of children living on the street in Gondar, Ethiopia, by witnessing the interaction between two children and the filmmaker. The entire film was shot in the room of Ethiopia
North and Northeast Africa
Children / Young people
Squatter Settlements / Homelessness
Informant-researcher relationship
Reflexivity
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